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Scut work

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1960, OED Evaluation: U.S. Colloquial

Tedious menial work.

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...'cause you- you- I-mean, with C-B-C, like, there 's always this right-of-passage that you go through where you really do a lot of scut-work and, um, and you have to work those kinds of- of shifts, and it 's also- it 's an incredibly competitive environment, and, I-mean, I think I 've said this twice now...
Trivial, unrewarding, tedious chores