The Industrial Age was largely about making those jobs as menial and unskilled as possible.
As a kid, he did menial jobs around the newspaper office, like sweeping the floor.
The 200-million-strong community was traditionally engaged in menial jobs which the other higher castes consider "unclean".
All sorts of menial jobs have quite sophisticated titles to make them feel their jobs are important.
Even the most menial jobs will teach you lessons and skills you can later exploit and combine.
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Off-shoring over the years has excellerated rapidly, and not just for menial labor, but engineering and legal work.
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The average menial laborer today enjoys more material abundance than a prince or tribal chieftain of recent past.
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If you're relegated to menial tasks or given nothing to do, you can always network inside the office.
Always have a positive attitude about the work, however menial it may seem.
The most common form of intern abuse is relegation to menial tasks like runs to Starbucks or the dry cleaner.
The clients are looking to cut costs, and one way to do it is to outsource menial jobs to nonunion contractors.
Okello did not have the necessary capital to rent a home in Kibera, or to apply for a menial job there.
Yet if no one is performing these more menial tasks, how will this new generation of IT workers learn the fundamentals?
They often get the most menial jobs and men are always first.
He moved to the West in 1957, worked in menial jobs and saved up enough money to open a shop in Stuttgart.
Most of the boys work menial jobs or steal, he tells us.
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Most immigrants are relatively unskilled, and many are employed in menial jobs in construction, hotel and catering, and light industries such as clothing manufacture.
But it also points to a wider tendency in Brazil of employing people in menial jobs that, in more developed countries, do not even exist.
TaskRabbit nabbed the first-in-line spot to try to promote its online service that allows people to pay someone else to do a menial task for them.
Used and abused in the office as glorified tea ladies, these college graduates are expected to do menial chores until they marry, have children and quit.
Many now welcome the relatively menial jobs they once would have deemed too lowly for a Saudi citizen, as hotel receptionists, for instance, or supermarket cashiers.
His testing found that the average intelligence of postal employees is significantly higher than the public at large with some in menial jobs having genius level IQs.
Unpaid internships seem to be an example of mutual utility: inexperienced youngsters learn something about a chosen field while employers get to farm out some menial work.
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Of course, this will only be possible when human engineers are absolved from the mundane, menial tasks that hold them back from time spent on innovation and ingenuity.
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Because all of these facilities have all these highly trained operators and clients, so you'll be doing rather menial stuff: getting teas, washing plates, grabbing food for other people.
It's not a menial task and I think it's awful that we weren't put in that position where we could have been earning the same as a man collecting rubbish.
With plenty of money to go round, Gulf Arabs have grown accustomed to lavish social security, subsidised utilities, and an inexhaustible army of Asian expatriate workers to do the menial jobs for them.
As Jerome Littlefield, an aspiring doctor whose debilitating sympathetic hypochondria reduces him to menial labor at a sanatorium, Lewis is both a flustered klutz who tries too hard and a soft-spoken, painfully sincere Everymensch.
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