Wiktionary
scutwork
n. tasks that are tedious and monotonous or trivial and menial, usually inherent in the operations of a larger project
Usage examples of "scutwork".
A lot of the scutwork in Angels City gets done by people from the south.
Times are so hard, people so poor, down in the Empire that even scutwork looks good to a lot of people.
I will start the scutwork and have a ship dispatched in forty-eight hours.
It was scut work but it got us out of scutwork for the Family that was a lot more boring.