Someone who works an endless string of menial jobs, performing poorly, showing up sporadically, and only lasting more than 90 days in places with extremely high turnover, in which case they would generally quit after a few months.
Hey man, I need a job, asshole I was working for just fired me.
What kind of work are you looking for?
Basic scumscraper type stuff. .
Someone who works an endless string of menial jobs, typically staying no longer than 6 months or as short as a few days at each, usually missing a day or two per week with or without calling and showing up visibly intoxicated periodically. Typically lives in a ramshackletrailer on the outskirts of town, filled with children of various ages and parentage.
What does your dad do?
He’s a scumscraper. Can I borrow 10 bucks?
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)