shitwork

Noun

1. Work of low status or yielding little satisfaction.
   • Now it was real detective shitwork. - 1987, James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia, page 276:
   • GM paid us a tidy income and we did the shitwork. No one was holding a gun to anyone's head. - 1991, Ben Hamper, Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line:
   • Mop again. Check the drop again. Clean the floor again. Fill the manger again. Shitwork. - 2000, David McCumber, The Cowboy Way: Seasons of a Montana Ranch, page 88:
2. Tasks which could be done automatically by software but which the software forces the user to do manually.