Scut Work

Give him the scut-work like choosing fonts or handling the Photoshop blending tools? ❋ Don Lewis (2008)

From those who bemoan that their comrades get sucked into working for the profiteers by the high salaries, only to be killed in action to the soldiers who are required to train contractors to do their jobs, then are relegated to scut-work while all the skilled labor is taken over by the contractors they trained. ❋ Unknown (2006)

We will have much scut-work to do, and it won't be easy... rebuilding and repairing is always much more labor-intensive than the initial organizing effort. ❋ Steve Perez (2007)

Stranger still to me is your assumption that inevitably, there would be people capable of doing nothing but scut-work that would be coasting on the backs of the uber-talented and intelligent–wasting their time, in effect. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Let the market handle it -- as soon as the Lindens get over their ideological welding to the concept of voluntarism and crowdserfing -- putting people to work for free to do their customer service scut-work -- and they allow both business and nonprofits to advertise in welcome areas and also contract as outsourced not crowdsourced actual professional *help* to newbies, we'll see a much better retention rate. ❋ Unknown (2006)

JoAnn Wypijewski, amongst others, has taken Stern, Hoffa, et al to task for keeping the old-boy network intact in the top tier of most Unions, even as disproportionate numbers of women –Black, White, and more– continue to have a lot more at stake in this fight than ego, continue to do a lot of scut-work and continue to be dragged out for “diversity” photo ops. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Widowed, Minh Subredil supported her one child by doing scut-work day labor at the Palace. ❋ Cook, Glen (1999)

You must do the scut-work you’d been putting off NOW. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I find it utterly bewildering that you’d work yourself up like this over a hypothetical situation in which we had a collective community in which everyone spent a few hours a week doing scut-work. ❋ Unknown (2006)

[I'm so tired], I was up late at [the plant] running scut work. Professor: "[Extra credit] is available...(I need some scut work done). ❋ Maiasani (2006)