He never vents out his frustration on an employee be
it as menial as a housekeeper.
While it's easy to dismiss augmented reality so far
as menial filters, Facebook has grander vision to enhance our interactions with the world around us.
For quite some time now, Google's Chromebooks have served
as a menial alternative to more expensive Windows PCs.
The conscious mind will still have a role in our lives, but it will be
as menial as you can imagine.
«In that speech, Dr. King said there is no such thing
as menial work,» said Gresham.
Some of the many services that women provide are not valued; they are regarded
as menial, that is to say lowly or degrading.
Not exact matches
Sage is investing heavily in leading edge technologies
as a way to free the business owner from
menial tasks allowing them more time to focus on the important aspects of running and leading their business.
While it might seem like a
menial task, Schulz explained you need to be vigilant, especially
as cyberattacks become increasingly common.
As a licensed attorney, Andrew Arruda has experienced first - hand the many hours of
menial research that go into preparing a case, which can drain a law firm's resources and inflate fees for clients.
If your boss only gives you
menial tasks well below your level of experience or competence — such
as «busy work,» it's a sign they don't trust or respect your abilities (or worse, that they are actively encouraging you to look for work elsewhere), says Taylor.
What I tried to do was come up with common characters we face at work — like the «manterrupter» who interrupts you in a meeting, or the office mom who ends up taking on the mother lode of
menial tasks —
as well
as some of the internal barriers, like the feeling of being an imposter, and then digging through the research to find out how you can push back against these things.
However,
as Saint Thérèse of Lisieux shows, no task done with Christ in mind can be dismissed
as purely
menial.
She says that they have a ministry of service
as assistants to the bishop, «but this does not limit their activity to
menial tasks» (p236).
In the Babylonian creation myth, for example, man was created
as a kind of after - thought in order to perform the
menial tasks, which otherwise would have been part of the responsibilities laid
as a judgment on the defeated rebel gods.
Nothing
menial about it, and not nearly
as hard
as it looks.
Many saw the ad
as a ploy to help the government meet that requirement — but only by offering religious minorities the most
menial jobs.
Even if they did find
menial jobs, Okies had to work twice
as hard to prove themselves.
The latter, lay brothers, did most of the
menial tasks, assisted by the novices; in a big community like that of the Augustinian house, these tasks might include such things
as brewing beer — the Erfurt cloister was substantial, and sometimes they would be putting on a meal for
as many
as two hundred.
As one man said: «In all social systems, there must be a class to do the
menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life... a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill Its requisites are vigor, docility, and fidelity.»
Our
menial actions remind us all that perfection in this case,
as in most cases, is overrated.
Some of us poor benighted souls even have to think about such
menial tasks such
as — dare I say it — what to make for dinner.
«Routine and often
menial labour» — yes, that describes a fairly significant portion of child care, especially very young children, and extra especially if you're doing all the cleaning, cooking and cloth diaper washing
as an adjunct.
There is also substantial need for low - skilled labor
as migrants frequently fill the most
menial «3D» — dirty, dangerous and difficult — jobs which European labor is often no longer prepared to accept.
They live in the streets and in open places whiles engaging in
menial jobs such
as carrying of heavy loads on their heads.
They include the tolls charged head porters locally known
as «Kayayei» who move from the north to the south of Ghana to engage in several
menial jobs.
At that time Verwoerd was minister of education in the Nationalist government and his view was that
as blacks were never going to be allowed to compete economically with whites, their education need fit them only for
menial jobs.
Doing daily
menial tasks, I'm reminded of my physical limits
as I painfully try to turn on the faucets for the bedtime bath — each attempt, an excruciating fail.
No task
as an intern is too
menial.
This game does exactly what it is meant to, and looks awesome doing so, those who gave this game a bad score, I compare you to critics bashing on a chair for not being a grand throne, the game has no real purpose and provides
menial entertainment to those who wish to basically do anything,
as a goat.
Follows the life and times of Andrew (Williams), a robot purchased by the Martin family
as a household appliance programmed to perform
menial tasks.
«Then there are moments that translate video - game mechanics so literally that we see Lara do
menial game tasks like use exposed beams
as makeshift monkey bars for crossing gaps.
You see, even now, Monster Hunter will come across
as flawed and
menial to new players.
He takes a seemingly
menial job
as a janitor in the laboratory of an astronomer (Allison Janney).
In the vein of MASH, this is a wartime film without any war, replacing bullets and bombs with a group of young women bored to death by the
menial office work they are charged with
as part of their required military service.
As outsourcing menial jobs to foreign countries becomes more popular it should come as no surprise that outsourcing the care of the elderly should follo
As outsourcing
menial jobs to foreign countries becomes more popular it should come
as no surprise that outsourcing the care of the elderly should follo
as no surprise that outsourcing the care of the elderly should follow.
Katherine Waterston
as Porpentina «Tina» Goldstein: an ambitious worker at the Magical Congress of the United States of America (the U.S. counterpart to the Ministry of Magic), who's relegated to a
menial position after she stood up to the wrong person.
Like his creator, Chinaski swings through a wide variety of low - paying, non-creative,
menial jobs (working at a bike shop, a pickle factory,
as an ice deliveryman and janitor) and a smaller handful of codependent, quasi-abusive monogamous relationships (embodied here by Marisa Tomei
as a fling, and Lili Taylor
as on - again / off - again girlfriend Janet).
Bill has reared the couple's two teenaged children
as writers, allowing them not to bother with
menial jobs
as long
as they maintain a daily journal.
Efron's Teddy is still on the journey of growing up,
as his frat brothers have all progressed onto larger ambitions while Teddy bemoans having to wear a shirt to the
menial job he still holds at Abercrombie and Fitch.
So the probability arises that Mamet wishes his films to be seen
as a kind of populist avant - garde cinema, full of ideas about the role of language in visual text and in the interim disdaining the
menial task of telling a story that has some semblance of respect for internal coherence.
Enter Eddie (Jon Foster of TV's «Life
As We Know It»), a young intern hired to help Ted with some
menial chores while learning the tricks of the author trade.
The series began life
as a short film bundled with the Iron Man 3 DVD, where Carter, doing
menial desk work after her partner Steve Rogers (AKA Captain America) has been frozen in Arctic ice, receives a call that tells her she is to co-head the new SHIELD organisation.
Fido (Lionsgate, March 9) Starring: Carrie - Anne Moss, Billy Connolly, Tim Blake Nelson, Henry Czerny, Dylan Baker, K'Sun Ray Director: Andrew Currie Rating: R The Pitch: In the post-zombie war town of Willard, the undead have been domesticated, and are used to perform
menial tasks or kept
as pets.
Darwan has his Master's degree, but has chosen to teach the seemingly
menial art of driving so
as to remain true to his identity
as a Sikh.
«The Film Critic» is primarily an imaginative look at a budding romance between two quite different people, but in addition the story is filled with amusing side characters such
as Victor's fellow critics who often seem comatose at the advance screenings and especially Leandro Arce (Ignacio Rogers), who would like to kill Victor
as his films have been regularly panned by Victor, and whose columns have relegated at least one movie editor to a
menial job.
Barred from Earth and relegated to performing dangerous or
menial jobs on off - world colonies, those replicants that defy the ban are hunted down and killed by «Blade Runners,» such
as Ford's Deckard, who's drawn out of retirement for one last job.
Nikkei reported that Konami was assigning game developers to
menial jobs if the company no longer saw those people
as useful; that cameras had been installed to monitor employee movements; and that supervisors were closely tracking lunch breaks and publicly shaming employees who were out of the office for too long.
Wainwright's visual style careens into overkill during the quieter scenes; there are one too many shots of drops of blood falling into water, not to mention some unnecessarily emblematic closeups of
menial things, such
as coffee being poured into a cup.
Joan Cusack (Ice Princess, The School of Rock) is a stay - at - home mom, but what a life,
as she has plenty of hired help to look after the
menial chores.
Before computers were available in Meghpar Titodi, a dusty, impoverished village in Gujarat, India, students such
as eleventh grader Hemant were destined for
menial jobs
as street sweepers, domestic workers, and field laborers.