NOT LOVIN' McJOBS

McDonalds is planning a campaign to remove the word ‘McJob’ from the Oxford English Dictionary (OEP). The word has become synonymous for a job with little satisfaction and low wages.
The official OEP definition of a McJob (added to the dictionary in March 2001) is:
"McJob (noun): An unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects, esp. one created by the expansion of
the service sector."

Yep, still sounds pretty accurate and relevant to us. Maccy D's is gonna have its work cut out...

LIKE A BAD JOKE AT A FUNERAL

The biannual BBC fare of Comic Relief has been and gone, supported by power company nPower (a subsidiary of German energy giant RWE). What isn't tickling the funny bone at the moment is the current actions of nPower in Radley, Oxfordshire where the company has slammed an injunction on campaigners trying to protect a lake from having toxic waste dumped into it. Even Channel 4 picked up on the story that injunctions are
being slapped on anyone photographing or filming the destruction - C4 risking injunction themselves! Also, if you saw any of the footage – theoretically, you too have been injuncted! Hilarious.

RED IN THE FACE
No red noses, but red faces all round as adrants.com, a
marketing news website, recently reported on the celebrity-backed Red campaign. Red is basically a campaign
to get money to charity through consumerism. Apparently, last year Red spent $100 million dollars on promotion and only brought in $18 million for charity. Capitalism failing to help the world's poorest people AGAIN then, Bono? Shopping isn't the solution as buying to donate is a pretty crap idea anyway; just give directly and bypass American Express, The Gap et al.
www.buylesscrap.org