"Grunt work" refers to tasks that are repetitive, mundane, and often require physical effort but don't require much skill or creativity.
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Companies were willing to take on interns as a sort of community service as well as to get some
of grunt work done for free.
Subsisting in poverty and reliant on Ray's many «girlfriends» to provide the rarity of a home - cooked meal, Charley takes a job at the Portland Downs
doing grunt work for a low - level horse trainer named Del (Steve Buscemi).
Sure, sometimes internships amount to little more than free
grunt work for employers.
If the old model was, a lawyer comes out of law school and joins a firm, does a lot of
grunt work in the first few years to not only sort of learn how to research, but learn how to think like a lawyer and learn how to really work for that firm and for a client; that model may be shifting more and more to lawyers going straight to in - house counsel, where they don't get the first couple of years of law firm training.
Spencer, who was a bank executive before entering real estate nine years ago, uses business savvy to connect with donors and volunteers but never shies away
from grunt work.
He was just like any other «cellar rat», doing
grunt work at one of the many wineries in the Santa Ynez Valley in order to gain experience and start making a name for himself in this tight - knit winemaking community.
On the other hand, she may have had very reasonable expectations but has been stuck doing
grunt work because everyone in the department gives her their unpleasant tasks.
Leatherman is a tried - and - true name in this market, and its Sidekick packs 17 different tools into into its tiny steel build, including wire cutters, multiple types of knives, a can opener, a wood and metal file, and Phillips, large, and small screwdrivers, among other things that could help you do
grunt work around the house.
As important is it is, an investment banking analyst will have to work long hours and do a lot of
routine grunt work, but it is a good job to start off your career.
I hope the nuns leave the Church, enmasse, and suggest that the guys who remain do all of the hard and often
grunt work which the nuns have done for generations.
Pathetically, many associates are keeping
grunt work like deposition summaries or document review to themselves, instead of delegating it to paralegals, in a desperate effort to keep up billable hours.
Outsourcing legal work to foreign countries has traditionally made the biggest news either when major corporations, typical BigLaw darlings, have announced their intent to have some of their
legal grunt work done offshore or when the BigLaw firms themselves got into the game.
Maybe a young couple you are working with end up getting the home of their dreams to raise their children in because of your quick response and
hidden grunt work?
On the investment banking side, he says, juniors have the most pressure to put in long hours, because they're «doing the behind - the -
scenes grunt work,» which can't be measured as easily as the productivity of senior bankers, who can be judged on the clients they woo and how much business they bring in.
Real work has extended periods of inactivity or
dull grunt work, as opposed to the exciting, feverish pace of a computer programmer in a movie (I'm looking at you, «The Social Network» - programming should not look that cool).
In 2009, two journalism students from Vancouver named Ryan «Sully» Sullivan and Adam «Force» Forsythe were interning with a TSN television station in Toronto, cutting tape and
performing grunt work, when genius struck.
Though sometimes this necessary
grunt work paves the way for a better future position, it is difficult to say whether this interaction-less lifestyle actually helped my friends develop as human beings.
The disappointed source complained Cerini is more interested in Facebook «likes» and appearing at community debates than wearing out shoe leather on door - to -
door grunt work.
De Blasio apparently can't resist the call of the corn in Iowa — he was there just over a year ago to stump for Hillary Clinton, a self - invited guest who did
grunt work knocking on doors.
In spite of this knowledge, neither companies nor students regularly get the most out of internships — not because companies are uncaring or want interns to do
only grunt work or because students downplay the importance of internships.
But there's also a lot of
grunt work behind these papers that appear like clockwork from highly productive labs.
The
intensive grunt work is why participants come home with rockin» bodies and the kind of «I can do anything» confidence that would part an airport taxi queue.
An «overnight success» is usually a 5 (or even a 10) year plan finally coming to fruition after putting in the
daily grunt work.
Those times that two people do find each other makes that 90 %
grunt work worth it.
The Canadians come off well in the film, silent angels of deliverance, while the Americans are the goofy but unexpectedly
competent grunt work guys.
To make resource collection a little less painless, it is possible to enslave NPCs and have them do some of the
mindless grunt work.
In many ways, though, it's the antithesis of that earlier film, which concentrated on newbie reporters and the excruciatingly
tedious grunt work of investigative journalism.
But its attempts to extract suspense from time - sensitive
scientific grunt work are admirable (if not always successful).
The plush ride and plusher cabin didn't stop our staff from subjecting the Ram to good ol' blue -
collar grunt work.
This is a boon for project managers
overseeing grunt work being done by cheap outsourced labor like graphic designers, artists or sound engineers.
Funny you should talk about assistants... I've been talking to some other indies about publicists, and honestly I'm not sure why money wouldn't be better spent on an assistant - in person or virtual - who could do the
marketing grunt work all of us dread.
Also, online book promotion — which is highly effective and represents a great value — can be threatening to the old book promotion school that did things the hard way — and counted on getting paid to lots of high - pain, low -
gain grunt work.
However, for complex situations, such as a massive identity theft situation, it might benefit you to hire a credit repair company to do the time -
consuming grunt work.
If you're willing to put in a
little grunt work (which you should) you can slash your out - of - pocket college expenses.
Wii U's GamePad launched with a poor 3 - 5 hours, and that wasn't doing any of the
processing grunt work.
We complained that we did all the
boring grunt work while various «fair haired lads» (the current management favorites) got promotions and recognition.
Basic research is the no - quick -
payoff grunt work that entrepreneurs and venture investors build revolutions on.
Imagine a giant index card catalog, with a card for every provision of every contract you've ever written, plus an automated word processing department that keeps everything filed, and does all the
technical grunt work of checking combinations of those pieces, and spitting out formatted documents for you.
Doing
grunt work when you know there are good tools to manage it can zap your staff of energy.
«LEAP makes it easy for us to practice and do other things than the
continual grunt work we normally would do.»