scutwork

Writers who have experimented with AI have speculated that it could be helpful, if not in coming up with original ideas, maybe at least in sparking a few, and doing away with the drudgery of coming up with “loglines” and “beat sheets,” Hollywood-ese for scutwork.

Staring at pickled spiders through a microscope might seem like scutwork, but it’s a delight for arachnologists.

Too many seem personally affronted by the kinds of scutwork and drudgery that were just called “life” when I was coming up.

His duties must eventually have included more than mere scutwork.

Then, a decade ago, I moved home and started to dwell on my own complicity each time relatives, friends, acquaintances and strangers casually slid into the same language I’d heard as a kid: “Ese trabajo es de negro,” equating scutwork to black work.