wendy
n. countablen. a person who works at a fast-food restaurant, used as a joke or an insult. You use this to suggest someone is failing at life or needs to get a 'real' job.
n. a derogatory reference to an employee of the Wendy's fast-food chain, typically used in online financial communities to mock individuals who have lost significant capital. Often implies a return to low-wage labor following failed investments.
If this trade fails, I will be working at Wendy's next week.
After the market crash, the forum was full of jokes about filling out applications at Wendy's.
Popularized by the character in J. M. Barrie's play, Peter Pan (1904) (though occasionally found earlier; the author explained that he got it from Fwendy-Wendy ("friend"), a nickname given to him by a child. Alternatively, from a diminutive of the Welsh Gwendolen; or from Wendelin, a diminutive of Wendel. A habitational forename meaning, "island at the river bend", from Old English wende (“watercourse with a bend”) + ēġ (“island”).
Often used in the phrase 'working at Wendy's' or 'behind the Wendy's dumpster'; highly informal and specific to internet slang.