Definition
An uninteresting, low-level, low-paying job.
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.
Origins
In the computing sense, originated from such a spam attack against Joe Doll in 1997.
In Context
- "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."