joe job
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English
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Etymology
In the computing sense, originated from such a spam attack against Joe Doll in 1997.
Pronunciation
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Noun
- (idiomatic) An uninteresting, low-level, low-paying job.
- 2007 February 23, Chris Seibold, “February 23, 1973: Hitting the clock like a regular fella”, in Applematters.com, retrieved 25 May 2007:
- Steve Wozniak may be a well-heeled philanthropist and world-renowned tinkerer, but at one time he had a Joe job as an engineer in Hewlett-Packard's calculator division.
- (US, idiomatic, computing) An act of e-mail spamming where the sender's identity and address are those of an innocent third party, intended either to tarnish that person's reputation or to flood that person's e-mail with bounces.
Derived terms
- joe-job (verb)