Their son embarked on a life of menial, migrant jobs.
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Openings for even menial posts attract throngs of overqualified applicants.
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He found work doing menial jobs and was sometimes homeless.
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After all, the menial labor still has to get done.
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They have been the work force, often performing menial labor.
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His many menial jobs included delivering groceries to wealthy neighbors.
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But they may be mistaken for someone of menial position.
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Microtasks are a variety of menial activities that require human oversight.
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"It was all pretty much menial grunt work," he told me.
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You wouldn't ask for much money—it's a fairly menial task.
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At many companies, women are underpaid and relegated to menial roles.
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"Robotics for menial tasks does not mean unimportant tasks," Moats said.
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By then, Kraus was tired of menial jobs and bohemian poverty.
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Was working a menial job for subsistence pay a positive outcome?
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Well, they can look forward to a life of menial work.
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Samsung, then, is likely to argue that the quality of carpet plays more than a menial role in why a customer purchases it, just like the function of a phone plays more than a menial role.
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Still, I outsourced every menial task I could to lighten his load.
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The lawsuit claims that the McBrides made the interns perform menial tasks.
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If men want to vote, they're required to take on menial work.
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If they have jobs in state-owned enterprises, they are usually menial.
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The effects can be widespread and affect menial and critical tasks alike.
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Chase's assistant, which at first feels menial to her but increasingly becomes
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They'd been excluded from team meetings, and assigned the most menial tasks.
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Just years before, he had been working menial jobs in Bristol, Conn.
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He points out that, on the surface, a janitor's tasks are menial.
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He seemed no more interested in the menial aspects of the job.
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So gave up and got a job doing menial work in a warehouse.
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For long stretches, the Knicks struggled to perform even the most menial tasks.
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With Benjamin, the menial task of dental hygiene is turned into a game.
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They undertake a series of menial tasks, scrubbing the floor in silent misery.
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Girls often left school and took menial jobs to support their brothers' education.
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Aldan advised him to seek jobs, however menial, with professional photographers in Manhattan.
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Far less time will be spent doing menial tasks like driving or cleaning.
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When I was 21, I had an interview for a fairly menial job.
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He struggled in Paris, relying at first on handouts and working menial jobs.
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The Post banned illustrations showing African Americans in anything other than menial roles.
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AI will also take over the more menial, basic entry level tasks, he said.
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Artist Mary T. Bevlock, now 50, performed menial tasks for minimal pay for years.
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Computer programming, for instance, used to be a relatively menial role done by women.
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We first see them being fired from their menial jobs at a rose farm.
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But it's not that Tyrel actually has little to offer or tackles menial issues.
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But he handled protocol, administrative and visa issues, as well as some menial tasks.
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These days Bobby has a heavy interest in petty crime; Terry works menial jobs.
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"This time for good," she explains, her eyes never straying from her menial task.
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Anyone can share a personal story in hopes of aiding someone with a menial task.
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Manifestations of loss oscillate between the harrowing and the menial in Gautier's haunting third collection.
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Some will never regain that stature, settling over the long term for more menial jobs.
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Employers are finding they have to pay more to get people to do menial work.
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Someone made a comment about him doing menial work, and I asked him about it.
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They haven't been able in their menial-pay jobs to create a retirement savings plan.
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Simply put, the companies say, Americans are not very interested in menial, short-term work.
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Many toil in the most menial of jobs, working as truck drivers, farmers or laborers.
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Resourceful enough to get here, most immigrants did all right, if only in menial jobs.
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He formed a theater company with friends, working at menial jobs to keep him aloft.
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The list of prominent people at Otisville reduced to doing menial prison jobs is long.
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Since then the 31-year-old has worked at menial jobs in McDonald's and local supermarkets.
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Moving to Florida in the mid-1960s, he juggled menial jobs and a growing music career.
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After graduation, she forgoes a master's degree and takes a menial position at the Sierra Club.
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She still has a (less than ideal) place to stay and two (menial) sources of income.
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It will be an important local employer, especially of women, and not just in menial jobs.
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Yet as labour markets hollow out, more high-skilled jobs are being created than menial ones.
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Reloading in their game wouldn't be a menial task—it would become a test of skill.
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She lost her funding, took three or four menial jobs, kept training and strove to return.
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She will not feel like making fun of her husband in the presence of a menial.
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What's that app that's supposed to make you smarter if you do the little menial games?
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He and his wife lost a 7-year-old child and he worked at menial jobs.
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Another was stuck in a menial job, and the other had been in a volatile marriage.
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But his menial jobs paid just enough to eat, and eventually he decided to return home.
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That singular act of defiance mocked the caste system, which ascribes menial tasks to the Dalits.
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Some have found menial jobs washing dishes or selling kebabs to support their families in Germany.
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Only five years earlier, Hernandez had been working menial jobs in his hardscrabble hometown Bristol, Conn.
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Computers can't do every menial task, but now they can request humans that will do the rest.
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Invisible, a company launching an AI bot for outsourcing menial tasks, announced $2.6 million in seed funding.
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War has been the making of them, saved them from marriage or service or other menial drudgeries.
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Abdul-Wahid considers himself lucky, because his peers are forced to take menial jobs despite their education.
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"The money they make from this exhausting menial labor is a small fraction of what they're worth."
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By this point, Transparent has broken so many glass ceilings it feels menial to list them all.
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Apple sells you on a premium experience that's undercut by the menial reality of its storage plans.
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Yet I kept logging in and doing menial tasks because what else was I supposed to do?
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During incarceration by rebel groups, beatings, mock executions and forced menial labor, like digging trenches, are common.
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The bots in the Star Wars films are intelligent machines capable of both menial and complex tasks.
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Once in the United States, they scrambled to get menial jobs, like packing fruit or sewing clothes.
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Since hiring Cuban laborers is not an option, menial jobs are outsourced to Jamaican and Filipino contractors.
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We've had great success in taking menial tasks like sorting and responding to emails and automating them.
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Members of the local Christian community mostly do menial jobs and are unable to afford licensed alcohol.
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Apart from Muslims, the leather industry also employs lower-caste Hindus, mostly in menial jobs in tanneries.
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Our girl is a townie, "programmed by generation after generation of workers" to settle for a menial job.
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Many Palestinians work in menial jobs in the west side, where salaries are higher and work more plentiful.
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Most live in downtrodden neighborhoods in south Tel Aviv and work in menial jobs in restaurants or hotels.
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It pains her to think of her students' futures in Germany, where even menial jobs require training certificates.
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I feel like I'm completing tasks well, and everyone around me thinks so too, but they're so menial.
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In Syria, the Islamic State's Central Asian recruits are often given menial jobs or used as cannon fodder.
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Maybe that's a good thing—in a post scarcity society, do humans really need to do menial jobs?
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He got a menial factory job, earned a degree in engineering and started his own electrical services company.
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Many of them are spiteful toward elites, skeptical of authority and eager for an escape from menial work.
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And he resists succumbing to the regimentation of a 12-step program based on devotionals and menial work.
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After years of working low-paying, menial jobs, she was coming from an interview at a flooring company.
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Prisoners use them to arrange family visits, freeing warders from menial tasks to spend more time with prisoners.
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Before that, Mr. Palmer had done menial labor on the nearby campus of Georgia Tech, earning a pittance.
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She's a dreamer, filling notebooks with lyrics as she works menial jobs to help pay her grandmother's medical bills.
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Mhuri now lives with her children in a small rented house and does menial jobs to make ends meet.
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Instead, they're taking over menial tasks, such as counting pills, and freeing up pharmacists to do higher-order jobs.
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Cities are reluctant to co-operate even on menial things like waste collection, fearing an erosion of their independence.
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We worked hard, staying up all night to study and taking on menial jobs to care for our families.
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Like most Arab conscripts, he would probably spend the next ten months performing menial duties, away from his family.
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The troops were reportedly performing menial tasks like feeding Border Patrol's horses, shoveling manure and doing maintenance on vehicles.
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In any event, the building has now been normalized, and the employees are no longer doing menial tasks, etc.
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We don't know who our mother would have been if she hadn't worked menial jobs and raised five children.
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In the post-colonial era, a sense of contamination lingers around the menial tasks Dalits were once associated with.
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Where thousands of menial labour workers return to their homes upcountry to celebrate the Thai new year with family.
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She no longer notates individual candle wrappers with poems, and she's delegated some of the more menial production tasks.
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One brother gets his shot at the big leagues, the other falls back into menial jobs and petty crime.
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How many impoverished, unattractive, unloved 50-something women with menial jobs later come into money, love, or better jobs?
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Trying to save money, many find cheap apartments in the same run-down neighborhoods as migrants working menial jobs.
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Ford arrived to Toronto at the age of 16, where he worked menial jobs during the day, Newman said.
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In recent years, there has been a surge of businesses catering to even the most menial of parenting tasks.
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The SWAT team had hired the boy to help out with menial chores: removing trash, buying eggs and bread.
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Employers who use E-Verify contend that they struggle to attract enough workers to perform menial, physically onerous jobs.
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A menial robot participates in wacky and heartwarming hijinks aboard a spaceship alongside two bumbling extraterrestrials their pet alien dog.
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The child of Cuban immigrants, Rubio's parents worked menial jobs like bartending and hotel cleaning to provide for their children.
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"It's perceived that white police officers just wanna go and lock up young, black men for menial crimes," Costello said.
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Over the following decades, African-Americans were shut out of city contracts and often relegated to menial or dangerous jobs.
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He started out, like most teens, with menial high-school jobs, including washing dishes and waiting tables at Pizza Hut.
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It is expensive, takes loans, often is inadequate and often results in debt-burdened "nomads" taking menial jobs in cities.
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The competition for employment is often impossible: Last year, 19 million people applied for 63,000 menial jobs with India's railways.
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Because the family was very poor, Abelim spent part of her childhood living in other households, sometimes doing menial work.
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Others started boarding buses to head back to places across Turkey where they had built temporary lives, doing menial jobs.
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Pongo left and took menial jobs to support her sisters after her father walked out on the family, she said.
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This may sound like a menial task, but Comey wanted me to understand that it was a vitally important one.
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Essential wants to use AI to automate the menial things we all spend too much time doing on our devices.
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That violated the traditional idea of a butler as a respected manager of the household and above most menial tasks.
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That means both covering the menial parts of arranging meetings and coordination, and the more proactive side of engaging existing leads.
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Most convicted inmates either work for nothing or for pennies at menial tasks that seem unlikely to boost their job prospects.
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The purse for Thais starts at 8,000 Baht (225 USD), which is the equivalent of one month's wages working menial labour.
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Many do menial, low-paid jobs; they are regularly stopped by police for document checks, and they often face racial discrimination.
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Bradley released three highly acclaimed albums late in life, having worked menial jobs and sang as a James Brown impersonator.—Noisey
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What kind of serf would I be without breaking my brittle backbone into a thousand tiny pieces with some menial work?
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Slack has made a big push into "bots", algorithms that can automate menial tasks which used to be done by humans.
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Jews, often doctors and lawyers or other professionals, were suddenly on their knees performing menial labor in front of jeering crowds.
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"Parasite" follows the poor Kim family living in a rundown basement flat doing whatever menial work they can get to survive.
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The locals call them Kayayei, and they find menial jobs as porters, transporting goods and wares between markets and lorry parks.
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It's a bit time-consuming than just looking at your phone, but it's a fun way to geekify your menial activities.
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Former employees also recounted spending countless stressful hours during and outside of work scrambling to complete menial and often costly tasks.
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To make ends meet he took any work he could, which mostly meant menial jobs like cleaning toilets and washing dishes.
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In the actual military, going back down to private usually involves a reduction in pay and a lot more menial labor.
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The BBC show "Love in the Countryside" has rural singletons bonding with potential suitors over menial tasks, such as milking cows.
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American employers continue to assume relatively little risk by hiring undocumented immigrants to perform menial, backbreaking work, often for little pay.
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Hell, missions often require you to literally perform in-game menial labor—whether it's packing boxes, cleaning floors, or whatever else.
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That kind of isolation can get to a person, and as Rockwell begins to hallucinate, the secret behind his menial job unravels.
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You must earn the privilege of this by volunteering for menial tasks at the center, passing tests, and spending more on seminars.
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As for menial duties like caffeine fixes for execs -- one source laughed heartily and said it's just not part of the program.
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This burden adds to a growing pile of menial tasks that Americans have to perform for the price of being a citizen.
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It would seem parents must force politicians to spend into bankruptcy or else doom their illiterate, innumerate children to a menial existence.
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He was quickly entrusted with scouting border crossings, ferrying to refugees crucial — often doctored — documents, and running errands from menial to dangerous.
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If you want a menial task done in an inspiring and funny way, ask your Snapchat-loving little sister to do it.
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While competing across the country and abroad, he took mostly menial jobs — one was cleaning latrines — despite a reported I.Q. of 132.
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As a teenager, he worked menial jobs, picking grapes in the local vineyards and cleaning rooms at a motel, saving for college.
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Do the things that seem like menial tasks but can be really hard to do when you can't take care of yourself.
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This is a boon for anyone who's ever wished they could relegate all menial and annoying tasks to their sleeping, regenerating selves.
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A big component of Zygote's world are "synthetics," or artificially-created humanoids designed to perform dangerous and menial tasks unfit for humans.
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"I'm okay about doing menial things for colleagues but I'll just let all that stuff in my own life slip," Kortina admits.
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Technological advances during the industrial revolution allowed the automation of menial tasks and diversified the number of tasks human beings could perform.
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She had been paid around 15 cents per hour and worked 18-hour days, seven days a week, performing menial household tasks.
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With a simple "Hey, Google," the Google Home can answer questions and perform some of the more menial tasks in your life.
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Some have offered the floors of their homes and businesses for sleeping, and menial jobs if participants wanted to abandon the journey.
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Millions of Uzbeks became labour migrants working menial jobs mostly in Russia and neighbouring Kazakhstan despite corruption, rights abuses and hate attacks.
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In recent months, they redeployed some signal maintainers to do menial tasks in support of contractors working on the subway's electrical system.
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Shopping through the voice remains difficult for most consumers, and voice devices are still largely used for menial tasks like playing music.
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At the same time, he suggested that a loss of jobs centered around menial tasks could give way to more rewarding work.
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In fact, it ends up treating the life of a Mafioso with all the pomp and circumstance of a menial day job.
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Her mother spent her adult years working menial jobs in the informal economy, and that was where Monica appeared to be headed too.
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"The message is that we must do menial work, and study in madrassas so then they can blame us for being anti-modern."
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At Rubicon, Pereira noticed that the new normal in the workplace, even for managers and executives, often involves a lot of menial work.
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Since a foot soldier is lowly and dispensable, it came to mean a sacrificable chess-piece, and, in other languages, a menial labourer.
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And just maybe, this science-fictional future welfare state won't be so terrible, particularly if our machines replace dangerous, menial, and degrading work.
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We see him punching the clock ferrying drunk girls to bachelorette parties and other menial assignments well below his super-powered skill set.
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Delicate, soft-spoken Julio spends a year shunted between poorly paid menial jobs, sleeping in miserly tenements while he searches for his love.
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The effort backfired when the BBC show reported that the Margiottas relegated Fabio to menial tasks, and finally said he had been sacked.
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In the spring of 2013, after arriving in Libya as a refugee, he negotiated passage to Tripoli by helping smugglers with menial tasks.
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To retain them, banks increased their compensation, gave them more time off and even did away with some of their more menial work.
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If she is unable to renew her lease, Kavita said she would have to seek low-paid menial labor to make ends meet.
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"It's like gambling," said Mr. Bai, a university dropout who has cycled through a series of menial jobs like security guard and waiter.
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In that time he's cobbled together barely enough money to survive by doing menial work: handing out fliers, sorting packages and cleaning offices.
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Labourers must still pick around ten kilos—perhaps an hour's work—to earn a dollar, but that is comparable to other menial jobs.
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He couldn't get jobs other than menial labor, and — along with about six million other Americans with a criminal record — he couldn't vote.
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A menial US$59.5bn in M&A volume accumulated in the fourth quarter, down from US$155.4bn in the same period of 2018.
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It will absolutely do everything you need super quickly, and it will be no slouch in gaming, web browsing, or other more menial tasks.
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Luckily, the episode also revealed that the new father was onto something, so maybe his days of menial labor will soon be behind him.
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Delegating menial tasks such as scanning for mislabeled items to machines allows humans more time to focus on customer experience, according to the company.
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The thinly populated Gulf states hired Western experts to help them build their countries and an army of Asians to do the menial labour.
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Even these menial or fun activities can turn overwhelming, because they become more about debating my own mind than doing the task at hand.
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I had a home in London where I could live rent-free—a huge privilege that meant I could reject menial and unpleasant work.
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After decades of portrayals in science fiction, robots are beginning to appear in everyday settings, doing menial tasks from vacuuming homes to flipping burgers.
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My parents, merchants in their homeland, had no desire to do the menial work expected of them in Harrisburg, Pa., where we had settled.
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Why get paid literal pennies to do menial Mechanical Turk work for a mega corporation when you can do the same thing for free?
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Most meals are "cup rice" he prepares in the shared kitchen, menial fare of rice and basic toppings - eggs, half an onion and sauce.
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As a teenager he worked at menial jobs at a film studio in Nice, and he served an apprenticeship with the director Julien Duvivier.
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Just last week, CNN reported that several career officials had retained attorneys over complaints they had been sidelined into menial jobs for political reasons.
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Instead, it seems like Essential wants to use AI to automate the menial things we all spend too much time doing on our devices.
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Politico reported last week that National Guard troops were mostly in support roles, doing somewhat menial tasks like tending to horses and changing flat tires.
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Remittances from the men and women who work in factories and menial jobs far away pay for new homes, televisions, refrigerators and other improvements here.
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Historically they have relied on this cheap labor to work in the sugar cane plantations or fill menial jobs in the billion-dollar tourist industry.
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Is it that weird to not want to prove your romantic interest in someone by doing gross menial labor that you are probably performing incorrectly?
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Atrium, a business law firm startup that automates much of its attorneys' menial work, has raised $65 million in new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.
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Employers will not welcome the typical TPS holder, who is 113-something and used to much higher wages than they can pay for menial work.
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Walmart has already been an industry leader in replacing cashier jobs — supposedly too menial and boring for human employees to tolerate — with self-checkout stations.
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You can also harness these practical vibes and finish those menial household tasks once and for all (is your crowded, disorganized fridge calling your name?).
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"Often, inexperienced new recruits are engaged in low-level, menial tasks and are made to bide their time away from the action," the report says.
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This menial has his sleeves tucked up and in his right hand he bears the knife with which he is about to make the incision.
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They say that businesses can't grow by firing workers; rather, they should automate certain menial tasks so workers can make better use of their time.
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Many National Guard troops deployed to the southern border have been performing menial tasks, like shoveling manure or fixing flat tires, Politico reported last week.
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Nothing seems too menial for the helpers, who are uniformly thrilled about the prospect of seeing their handiwork on display, even if it is anonymous.
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"You learn more in waitressing than you can in any other job, and I had every kind of menial job you can imagine," she said.
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When you're young, this almost certainly means taking menial and often boring jobs — serving food, moving furniture or working in a retail store, for example.
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But it essentially operated as a subcontractor for local factories, providing menial tasks to workers with developmental disabilities, such as scraping debris from metal casts.
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Fanning quickly came to mind for Barkley, introduced as a "synthetic," that performs menial or dangerous tasks in the mining facility that backdrops the film.
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In Germany, most of the 30,000 refugees working are in temporary positions or menial jobs arranged by the government paying 1 euro ($1.10) an hour.
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As punishment, superiors would give Mr. Kelley menial tasks, such as mopping or scrubbing toilets, which would send him into a rage, Ms. Edwards said.
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He graduated from the University of Newark and worked at daytime "menial jobs" for 10 years while attending the New Jersey Law School at night.
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So far, often in pilot projects focused on menial tasks, artificial intelligence is freeing workers from drudgery far more often than it is eliminating jobs.
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Tired of beatings by her husband, Ms. Ammini's mother fled their small village with her young children, taking menial jobs in hotels and on farms.
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The defeat caused a refugee crisis, with desperate fae fleeing to The Burge where they're largely resigned to a life of menial labor and discrimination.
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"You learn more in waitressing than you can in any other job, and I had every kind of menial job you can imagine," Corcoran says.
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Self-made millionaire Barbara Corcoran worked 22 menial jobs before getting involved in real estate, the industry in which she would eventually earn her fortune.
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This came with certain ills: Commutes were getting longer, traffic worse, middle-class jobs more specialized ("project engineer"; "system analyst") and menial ones more scarce.
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Laws were passed to keep Chinese women out of the country, so that the Chinese males who were brought over for menial labor couldn't produce offspring.
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Mathenge's father refused to pay his secondary school fees, and he found himself homeless and unable to get even menial jobs, pushing him into sex work.
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The workforce is woefully unproductive—no surprise given the abysmal state of India's education system, which churns out millions of adults equipped only for menial work.
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The game takes place in an office cubicle, and you're asked to walk around and complete menial tasks like the faceless corporate employee that you are.
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In 2010, he began running romance scams, extorting money from victims and using them to do menial tasks in other scams, such as opening bank accounts.
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Sense and compute are the electronic eyes and ears that will be the ultimate power behind automating menial work and encouraging humans to cultivate their creativity.
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Once-menial activities such as turning on and off the lights, using the bathroom or eating a handful of fruit snacks are now a constant struggle.
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Thousands of others from Hapcheon were taken to Hiroshima to toil in munitions factories, or worked on farms and in other menial jobs around the city.
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Some bypass meaningful internships or jobs because they find them menial or can't live on a paltry salary (or as with most internships, none at all).
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Many young indigenous people don't have much hope for the future—they feel they'll never have a career but will always be stuck in menial jobs.
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He saw himself looking back to a time when people were hunters and gatherers who used their mouths to accomplish what are, today, menial kitchen tasks.
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They know that illegal immigrants are here because employers need them to do jobs that most Americans reject as too hard, too distasteful or too menial.
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This is Astral Chain, a game that's one part apocalypse, one part menial police work, one part over-the-top action, and one part pure goofiness.
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Corporate boards in Ries's view are bogged down by boring, menial tasks rather than using their oversight power to force the company to think longer term.
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Blacks in the Army were typically relegated to menial roles, but in late 1943 an order barring them from serving as front-line paratroopers was rescinded.
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Back then, qualified only for menial jobs, I also saw my looks as a fast-closing door to freedom and used them as best I could.
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In the long-run it's menial work and they will admit they can't satisfy employees and it costs too much in terms of the turnover cycle.
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She recalled growing up watching her father, who worked his way up from menial jobs to work on the oil rigs, manage through booms and busts.
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"You learn more in waitressing than you can in any other job, and I had every kind of menial job you can imagine," Corcoran tells Torabi.
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He prioritizes high-value activities at the start of the day, designs out menial tasks, and plans ahead for which days to focus versus push days.
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Still, the fight to move beyond menial jobs and receive top ranks in the armed forces would continue for African-Americans well into the Vietnam War.
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If anything, the stories behind the mask could be brutal, where injuries could lead to early retirement and a lifetime of being stuck in menial jobs.
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But fewer and fewer young people see a future in agriculture, which offers lower, less steady pay than factories or menial jobs in towns and cities.
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Jail trusties—model inmates who did menial jobs at the sheriff's office—told him that they'd spent two weeks destroying paperwork, at the previous administration's instruction.
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To play certain parts of the game, players must complete the main campaign and achieve a certain rank by "grinding," or repeating menial in-game tasks.
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As I was told during that meeting in 2008, I'd be newest and therefore lowest ranking, meaning the most exhausting and menial tasks would fall to me.
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Once the station is up and running, players take on the station's menial tasks, like tossing out garbage or fixing ticket machines, to keep the station running.
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After four years working menial jobs in Lebanon to help pay for their journey on to Europe, he had given up on ever going back to school.
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"She showed me that hard work really does pay off, that no job is too menial if it means getting to the larger goal faster," she says.
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They say Mr. Hall has torn down too many houses on property he bought, and that the jobs he had created, largely menial, were not particularly valuable.
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Some of our abuelos and abuelas (grandfathers and grandmothers) may have come here with a third-grade education and worked menial jobs to provide for their kids.
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Born into a family of subsistence farmers, Bpaet's best hope, if he could make it through adolescence, is for a career in menial labor like his father.
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On Sundays, he preached the gospel; the rest of the week he worked menial jobs so he could send a little something back home to his family.
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Automation can help with the issue, but I talk about digital tools to allow people to spend their time connecting with customers rather than doing menial tasks.
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He was a starving artist, taking menial jobs to make ends meet as his writing gradually turned toward the material horror and psychological torment of white supremacy.
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Elimination of middle men and labor for menial work (such as deliveries and pick ups) can help boost the bottom line of many businesses across the globe.
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He wrote in his memoir "The Ride of a Lifetime" that he did "menial labor" for basically every show ABC produced out of Manhattan at the time.
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More than 22,000 people signed up to perform 1,000 hours of menial labor for the chance to check in on their Facebook and maybe look up some directions.
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A common refrain among companies that add scores of bots alongside human workers is that they will free up humans from menial tasks to do more interesting work.
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Image: YouTubeWhy Queen Elizabeth and the rest of her Illuminati cohorts would allow a menial clone to expose the secrets of their arcane operation, however, remains a mystery.
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To her dismay, the prince she tracks down is no longer a boy, but a lowly janitor who has become a menial part of a brainwashed corporate workforce.
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It turns out that even something as seemingly menial as grocery shopping has nuance to it, and individuals tend to be very particular about the way it's done.
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The general techno-optimism around automation is that it will produce better-paying, more fulfilling jobs for humans as menial tasks get taken over by robots and software.
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Torii slammed the technical trainee program, asserting that foreign workers ended up taking menial jobs as opposed to learning skills they could take back to their respective countries.
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Dines started UiPath in 2005 with the goal of building a solution that could help humans reduce the time and stress that come from menial, administrative business tasks.
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Ms. Yagi, too, did not like to talk about her life in South Korea, though her callused and crooked fingers appeared to reflect a life of menial labor.
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He once infamously criticized the millions of Uzbeks who had gone to take menial jobs in Russia just to survive, calling them "too lazy" to work at home.
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Furthermore, I often run across people who have gone back to menial work in their 60s and 70s because they just want to get out of the house.
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His parents split up when he was two years old— his Dad went to embark in a career in menial labor in Rayong Province, Thailand's primary industrial zone.
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A basic income for citizens is an old idea that's gaining renewed traction as governments prepare for a future when robots are doing much of today's menial work.
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I recall driving with a colleague — both of us white — through poor areas populated mainly by Zimbabweans who had little to thank white people for beyond menial jobs.
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And yet isn't this how so many of the less privileged around the world, forced to work jobs involving menial labor, day after day after day, already live?
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Eriq Ebouaney and Bibi Tanga play teachers from the Central African Republic who now work menial jobs in the less picturesque parts of Paris while petitioning for asylum.
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He lives hand-to-mouth, obtaining coin for sometimes menial work from those who barely have enough for themselves (I realize now I am describing a fellow freelancer).
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And of the 22 menial jobs she worked in her teens and early 20s, it was waitressing that most prepared her to build a successful company, she says.
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Superstore is probably the best of these, marrying The Office's humane comedy wrung from the soul-crushing drudgery of menial work with a topicality it never really attempted.
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If anything, the list gets dumber and more menial every year, as the actual shit I have to do to be a person becomes more complicated and difficult.
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And in fact, throughout the war, black soldiers charged that they were disproportionately assigned menial duties, denied promotion to the rank they deserved and unfairly targeted for punishment.
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"As more of the menial tasks are handled by our app this allows accountants to focus on what they do best and not get stuck in admin," explains Abramov.
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Suddenly the whole tech industry is knee-deep in AI-powered assistants that live within apps, performing simple, menial tasks for you, saving you time and keeping you productive.
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But the Restavek Freedom Foundation says that many times the host family doesn't hold up their end of the deal, and the children perform menial tasks for no pay.
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My real job work is menial enough, sure, but not in a medieval way, so I headed up to the Spitalfields City Farm to indulge in some agricultural slogging.
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Those adjustments are menial when compared to the city's unfunded liabilities which increased from $28503 billion in 22019 to a mind-boggling $18.6 billion by the end of 2015.
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Mr. Fu, 29, a former soldier from Sichuan, worked on and off as a security guard and in other menial jobs, and liked to write verse, Ms. Liu said.
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Three decades ago, most Pakistani women who had paid jobs worked at menial tasks, and the others were confined to traditional professions like medicine or teaching or, occasionally, law.
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The law basically said a business could pay workers with disabilities less than able-bodied workers to do menial tasks in a "workshop" environment with other workers with disabilities.
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The work was menial and morally dubious, but the pay was better than his fake copywriting, and he started to make a dent in the most pressing credit cards.
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And the co-author, Lisa DePaulo, sued Ms. Pirro, saying the host forced her to perform menial tasks and tried to include material that she knew to be untrue.
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Some enlisted immigrant doctors say they can't use their medical skills to help the Army battle the coronavirus, and are instead left doing menial tasks, The Washington Post reported.
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While it's annoying I remind myself how lucky I am to have built a relationship with my GP who listened to me when I was having seemingly menial issues.
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The migrants can be heard and only vaguely seen through a blurred window; they engage in conversations or go about their menial jobs but remain far away — silhouettes at best.
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Look, these are fraught, nebulous times when we hear promises of a future free of menial labor, but better expect to compete with automated systems for scraps of gig work.
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For years, people in the Philippines and other developing countries performed menial tasks for Facebook, such as reviewing content to see if it violates the social network's terms of service.
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As the son of a preacher-turned-taxi driver, he had inherited his father's charisma, but not his willingness to either study, or settle down and get a menial job.
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There should be a law against failing to list the direction of force required to open a door, lest you look weak and meager doing a menial task in public.
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Tweet. Post. Retweet. Repost. Comment. Why spend your time doing menial social media management tasks when you could be working on broader strategies that acquire users at a greater rate?
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A high score can mean a ticket to a renowned university and a high-paying profession, while a low score can bring shame and a future confined to menial jobs.
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She told me that she wasn't allowed to be alone with any of her male colleagues, and that supervisors assigned her menial tasks more often than they did the men.
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The mudsills were society's menial workers, dull, unambitious, and good only for creating wealth that better, civilized people with educations and connections would use to advance the economy and society.
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Most of them had been introduced by chance to this sport they'd never heard of before, and it became their profession because golf seemed an attractive alternative to menial labor.
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While working menial jobs, he earned an undergraduate and a graduate degree from Baruch and founded Masa, a nonprofit in the South Bronx that tutors Mexican and Mexican-American students.
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Officials view the crowded, slum-like neighborhoods as fire hazards and eyesores, despite the fact that the migrants do the menial jobs that allow a city like Beijing to function.
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Maria, for instance, who cleans alongside Fidelma, and who lives for the tango: Maria, who went about her tasks with great zeal, because everything mattered, even the most menial thing.
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Sometimes the jobs will take inmates outside of prison, although more frequently they merely mimic real-world jobs or involve menial chores that need to be done around the prison.
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But because of the increase in positive drug tests, the refugees who have reached America in recent years are finding a more welcoming hiring climate, at least for menial manufacturing jobs.
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The existence of these soul-sucking forms of employment, which range from the menial to the high-level but share a lack of useful tangible outcomes, is a challenge for economists.
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In 2015, we discover Sam was demoted to menial office work because he took the fall for Matty (Jake Davies) and his German thug friends, stealing and crashing his work vehicle.
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Award-winning actor Jon Hamm hasn't always been the toast of Tinseltown: He spent nearly half of his professional life in service and menial jobs in Missouri, where he grew up.
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Up to 3 million people from poorer neighbor Myanmar work in Thailand, many in menial jobs, with their remittances home contributing 5 percent of gross domestic product, the World Bank estimates.
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"Some go out to beg on the streets, others go out of the camp to look for menial jobs, while others use their bodies to get food and money," she said.
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Instead of finding the glamour she expects, she experiences a form of domestic slavery — a toxic atmosphere in which she is chronically subject to menial tasks and patronizing remarks within earshot.
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Instead of exploring Raqqa as a truth seeker, he took on the role of manservant in dilapidated safehouses, making dinner for militants and performing other menial tasks, according to defense attorneys.
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"At best, automation can increase productivity and save workers from menial, low-paying tasks and jobs," Giorgina Paiella, a researcher on feminism and automation at the University of Connecticut, told me.
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One of those products is a 'companion robot' called Robo-C, that it says can be manufactured to look like any celebrity, especially the ones that might perform menial household tasks.
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They are also found among immense prosperity—the children living in the Bronx or of the service workers who drive three hours each way to do menial jobs in San Francisco.
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" She cites the example of a discrimination lawsuit filed by a female employee of Facebook, who says she was "given menial tasks like serving drinks to the men on the team.
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The law basically said a business could pay workers with disabilities as little as a few dollars an hour to do menial tasks in a "workshop" environment with other disabled workers.
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This type of job tends to be "rote, menial, and repetitive," says Sarah T. Roberts, a professor of information science at the University of California at Los Angeles who studies information workers.
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The emails released Friday range from menial email blasts and newsletters to highly sensitive internal campaign discussions from inside the Clinton campaign as they were facing a strong primary challenge from Sanders.
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The Forth Valley Royal Hospital, run by Serco, was the first in Britain to use automated guided vehicles to move laundry and waste around in the basement, saving about 40 menial jobs.
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Black Sabbath, Paranoid, and Master of Reality swirl with despair, but Priest and Quartz tell workers that, if they're doomed to menial, degrading jobs, they might as well have some badass parties.
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To attempt to make amends, he's dedicating the rest of his immortal life to helping with menial work at Winterfell, such as changing sheets, taking out the trash, and, yes, holding umbrellas.
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But unlike the more affluent south, China's rustbelt has few other jobs to offer, prompting some local governments to offer menial work while state firms keep staff on but pay much less.
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Mr Pruitt could simply have ignored the recommendations issued by the boards—though this might prove awkward when defending the policies before a judge—or tied up scientists by assigning menial tasks.
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Richard Hanson is suing Martina and her husband, John, claiming the McBrides hired unpaid interns and assigned them menial tasks like cleaning bathrooms, setting up and tearing down equipment, and delivering food.
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A refugee in Uganda currently earning $1.25 a day doing basic tasks or menial jobs could make up to $20 a day doing simple AI labeling work on their phones, Mikkelsen said.
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On early highlight "Love Lost", for example, an attempt to go about a menial daily task (finding a book to read or movie to watch) can trigger a thousand other, weightier thoughts.
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They meet at night because, while other criminal organizations have massive international revenue streams, these guys — even the leaders — have to work menial jobs and sometimes go to school during the day.
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Oftentimes industry spokespeople will discuss technology's potential to replace jobs that are deemed "dull, dirty and dangerous" — menial tasks that many roboticists will suggest no one really wants in the first place.
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He was his family's golden boy, who went to Harvard but has chosen to return home to care for his elderly father (Payne) and take a menial job at a community organization.
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Of last year's figure, 8.1 million were migrants from other parts of China — mostly menial laborers but also white-collar workers, some of whom have also been displaced by the recent removals.
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Incarcerated in a series of prisons over the years, Mr. Manson passed the time by playing the guitar, doing menial chores and making scorpions and spiders out of thread from his socks.
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These range from the menial (fixing her washing machine) to the potentially ruinous (smuggling a cake to Moscow by plane, which could cost a father who works at the airport his job).
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Both of these individuals are being asked to sign strangling non-disparagement agreements in order to receive their menial (one-month) severance offers, despite having a cumulative 10-year tenure at Kickstarter.
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Section 14(c) enshrines the idea that those with disabilities are unequal under the law and dooms them to a fate of menial and unfulfilling work for the rest of their lives.
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The synths, as they are known, do menial and routine work, and despite their near-perfect appearance in this show, produced by AMC and Channel 4 in Britain, they are clearly robots.
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But the game never lets up, and the litany of work is deliberate: In other sims, you might get advanced tech that lets you skip menial steps, but not in this game.
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Stuck in a menial job and struggling to motivate their deadbeat boyfriends, Ali (Pierre Edwards) and James (Anthony Johnson), the two dream of one day opening their dream hair salon/soul food joint.
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In the old days the zamindars (landowners), empowered by British rule, lorded over great tracts of land, housing serfs and often abusing them in return for sharecropping and other forms of menial labour.
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His plans for early retirement change, however, when he sees that the luxuries of his life are propped up by the immigrants who live on the outskirts of town and work menial jobs.
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My solution was to front-load my mornings, so I made sure to finish the most mentally demanding tasks early in the day and save the more menial items for the late afternoon.
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Sen. Mark WarnerPhoto: Win McNamee (Getty)The internet-connected gadgets, devices, baubles, and geegaws we fill our homes with to perform menial tasks and surveil our every move are often times wildly insecure.
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The effects on child labourers were often lifelong, she said, as they were exposed to dangerous chemical and heavy machinery while the lack of an education also left them trapped in menial work.
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Women, Latino, American Indian and African American employees are given lower performance scores, making it more difficult for them to advance professionally and confining them to more menial tasks, according to the lawsuit.
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Shakespeare, World War II air raids, begrudgingly respectful old men, the quiet dignity of menial work — all these British tropes and more join forces in the trailer for Starz's upcoming movie The Dresser.
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That might have something to do with the fact that, for the first half of his professional life, he worked menial jobs as a bus boy, a dishwasher, a waiter and a bartender.
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Then Thomas Morton headed to China to check out the trend among that country's elite of hiring white males for menial jobs as a status symbol, and what it takes to actually apply.
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In the process, the Warriors took care of more menial tasks, like winning three of four games against the San Antonio Spurs while also handing them their only home loss of the season.
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While the wages aren't amazing—roughly $12 to 15 hourly on average—these are inside-an-office jobs that generally involve sitting at a desk, which is to say they are not menial.
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During several weeks when the Model 21992 production line was not yet operating, Ms. Stewart said, she was frequently assigned to menial tasks, while workers of other races did work like sorting components.
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But the idea&aposs proponents argue that workers who receive a stipend to cover basic needs are more inclined to pursue work that interests them, as opposed to a low-skill, menial job.
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The aim of the new work permits was not just to reduce labour shortages for menial work, but also to ensure that those who arrived had certain rights and protections, says Ms Chun.
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Haastrup said the surgery, which runs into thousands of dollars, was done free of charge to the parents, who work in menial jobs and would not have been able to afford the surgery.
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I may have paid off my loans quickly, but waking up and coming home in the dark and spending all day doing menial, unappreciated assistant work put me in a bad mental place.
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Those who couldn't afford lodgings would likely end up in the workhouse, forced to undertake menial, physically demanding, and sometimes dangerous work like breaking apart stones in exchange for basic food and housing.
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The fairytale-like characters that populate Rottenberg's world are workers around the globe who perform menial tasks and churn out mass-produced goods — cogs in the machine that powers our globalized capitalist economy.
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The law basically said a business could pay workers with disabilities as little as a few dollars — or cents — an hour to do menial tasks in a "workshop" environment with other disabled workers.
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Two dinosaur robots at check-in were also reportedly tremendously mediocre in execution, requiring human assistance for menial tasks, like making copies of a passport, an arguably common undertaking for a front desk agent.
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Each subject mimed their chosen action to the camera for 60 seconds, and the resulting footage turns seemingly menial tasks into choreographed performance, highlighting the unique movements and behavioral traits of Hackney Wick's population.
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Over 108 seconds, it contrasts the highlights of the Obama-Biden years with the menial successes of Buttigieg's mayoralty, cutting between Biden's work on the Iran nuclear deal and Buttigieg deregulating pet chip scanners.
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Today's installment follows up on a dispatch called Rent a White Guy, exploring the Chinese trend of hiring white males for menial jobs as a status symbol, and what it takes to actually apply.
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Businesses, now closed, rust away, and the murderer works a job at a Best Buy-esque big box store where he and his coworkers struggle to find meaning in menial day-to-day labor.
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Amazon already has its hand in a very different kind of remote work: Companies use its Mechanical Turk platform to find freelancers for small, usually menial online tasks, for which they pay very little.
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Instead of forcing you to do menial tasks in a village for two hours before letting you start in a beginner dungeon, the game lets you do whatever you want in the Great Plateau.
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Contrary to the rhetoric of robots stealing jobs, Leong said he believes robotics will "transform jobs," especially in "high-growth-stage countries" where the population will no longer be satisfied with simple menial jobs.
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Men confused the distinction between woman and animal, not only through rape, but by keeping women illiterate, pregnant, and exhausted, tasked with the menial labor of keeping the colony fed and clean and clothed.
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SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF I firmly believe that when you intern somewhere you ought to be known, by the time you're done, as the intern willing to do even the most menial of tasks.
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In June, it was reported that those troops were performing menial tasks such as changing flat tires and shoveling manure from Border Patrol horses, as they were not permitted to assist with enforcement operations.
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And if you're like me, these breaks become opportunities to accomplish menial personal tasks (making a grocery list, responding to emails, Insta-stalking my crush), which can quickly snowball into an hour-long event.
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Most often, Hubot performed menial tasks — calling up photos or animations, performing various sorts of searches — but it soon came to function as a sort of group storytelling sidekick, developing something like a personality.
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By contrast, the black majority endured segregation in urban townships and in rural reserves, denied access to the most fertile land and often serving whites in menial roles as housekeepers, gardeners, laborers and farmhands.
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A study of undergraduate engineering students found that during internships, women were assigned more menial tasks while men got to do the problem-solving assignments, all leading to an unsatisfactory experience for the women.
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Several people who found overseas jobs with government help say they ended up taking menial work, such as dishwashing in Taiwan and meat processing in rural Australia, or were misinformed about pay and conditions.
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Plus for those of us Anglos who don't make a ton of money as musicians, it is tough to find even the most menial jobs in a predominantly French market to help support your art.
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Whether you dodged religious nutjobs or drunk camp counselors, stocked grocery stores or engaged in backbreaking menial labor, those memories of your worst summer job stay with you long after you've collected that last paycheck.
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You can find job postings for mall-oriented Santa work for photos, however, that advertise pay as little as $12 an hour, suggesting how menial the labor is in certain places and for certain companies.
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When the train mysteriously stopped somewhere under the East River, I found myself sitting across from a series of ads for TaskRabbit, a gig platform that lets anyone outsource menial labor to on-demand employees.
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Brett's creators hope that he could some day take on menial human tasks with the ability to adapt and learn new ways of accomplishing a goal, something that most other robots are incapable of doing.
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Having him there is a special occasion for Boo, as he works menial labor in Bangkok and seldom has time or money to visit his daughter, who lives with extended relatives in their rural village.
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Unfortunately, the English he acquired watching American TV won't advance his current aspirations, and he's reduced to performing menial jobs for "an absurdly hairy Polish guy" with a better command of the Queen's own English.
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They would scrape together the 300 lire — the cost of three houses at the time — to book passage here, to the land of dreams, where menial, often dangerous jobs no one else wanted awaited them.
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At one generic desk feebly personalized with a plant and pictures, a video playing simultaneously on two computer monitors delves into Amazon Mechanical Turk, an online marketplace where people perform menial tasks for minuscule pay.
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It's a show about how a lot of the working class survives in 2019, by working menial retail jobs that maybe aren't as rewarding as they could be but do pay (some of) the bills.
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Though blacks remain overrepresented in menial jobs and many inner-city black communities have been decimated by deindustrialization, racial discrimination, and the resulting "structural poverty," the black middle class is now the largest in history.
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According to court documents obtained by Fox News, Richard Hanson alleged that the country singer and her husband, John McBride, hired unpaid interns to do menial tasks like cleaning their bathrooms and shopping for their groceries.
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They struggle to find jobs at places like Rolls or Brompton, but they are also too costly for more menial tasks: hourly compensation costs in British manufacturing are roughly five times what they are in Mexico.
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To help maintain this gargantuan open-source encyclopedia, thousands of software bots sift through the site, performing such menial and repetitive tasks as deleting vandalism, enforcing bans, correcting bad spelling, creating links, and automatically importing content.
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The video is garnished with darker shots of group hangings, Handmaids in training, and what appears to be the colonies, the ruined areas of North America where prisoners are sent to do often dangerous menial labor.
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A viral video showing an army of little orange robots sorting out packages in a warehouse in eastern China is the latest example of how machines are increasingly taking over menial factory work on the mainland.
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But instead she ended up in an extended "Karate Kid" training phase at their House of Black and White, doing menial labor for Jaqen H'ghar and taking regular abuse from an unpleasant girl called the Waif.
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"African-American employees are disproportionately employed by UPS in lower paying, strenuous, menial, part-time, or seasonal positions and systematically denied opportunities for higher paying, full-time, and supervisory positions," the lawsuit reads, according to CNN.
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"Menial jobs, unhealthy relationships … they were all welcomed with open arms believing that even life's leftovers were more than I deserved," she shared with members of her church in a presentation posted to YouTube last January.
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Mr. al-Qosi then followed him to Afghanistan in 1996 where, the prisoner said in his guilty plea, he performed menial tasks at a Qaeda compound, including running its kitchen and sometimes serving as a driver.
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But instead of spinning another yarn, he waxes romantic about the hours of so-called menial labor that went into everyday objects that, centuries later, are now treasures in one of the world's pre-eminent museums.
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Although he was once struggling to gain name recognition, Saleh has reached a level where he can delegate the menial tasks he doesn't enjoy to others, while he focuses on what he loves: being a creator.
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He gave up a dream of being Walter Cronkite and moved to New York City and started at the bottom rung at ABC: $210 a week for menial labor on game shows, soap operas and newscasts.
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Many men in the Party frankly want to keep the women doing the menial work, while the selection of candidates and the policy decisions are taken care of by the men in the smoke-filled rooms.
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Artistic recognition, when Mr. Wong did find it, was all the more noteworthy for the fact that among Chinese immigrant men of his generation, professional prospects were largely limited to menial jobs like houseboy and laundryman.
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She's wonderfully dynamic, leading the camera in such a way that we see the Villanueva house like never before, and relishing menial activities like making tea or eating arepas without ever letting up on Jane's spiraling thoughts.
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But once in Paris, they encounter racism and violence as they struggle to hold onto the pretense of their marriage, taking on menial jobs as a domestic helper (Yalini) and building custodian (Dheepan) to make ends meet.
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We saw as my parents, well-paid professionals in Malaysia, trudged through a variety of menial jobs, struggling to apply for minimum-wage work; and not for a lack of qualifications, experience or even English-language ability.
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A lot of that human interaction was based on using Mechanical Turk for some of the more menial tasks, from what I understand, but SocialRadar also filed for a patent for some of the technology it invented.
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"If machines can offer consumers a concierge-style service that reduces day-to-day life admin and menial tasks, then there is no reason why [consumers] won't want to delegate some of their shopping responsibilities," Pomford said.
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Many will scrape by at Chungking Mansions, taking up menial jobs illegally, or surviving from the few free services at Christian Action on the top floor, which is the only charity of its kind in the city.
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Though she worked many menial jobs, her only work as a nanny was taking care of her nephew's children in Dallas for four months in late 2006 and early 2007, the children's mother, Glendalys Garcia, 38, testified.
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Heidi's already in hot water for dropping out of college, so Daddy downgrades her internship to a 10-week rotation through some of the hockey league's most menial jobs — selling hot dogs, working stadium security, cleaning bathrooms.
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In Palm Beach County, home to dozens of hotels, golf resorts and residential communities, there is a steady demand for menial labor, some of it performed by foreigners who come in on H-2B guest worker visas.
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CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Campaigners hailed new hope for child rights on Thursday after a trafficker who tricked five Indian boys into menial work with the promise of better schooling was awarded a rare life sentence.
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Adah, a thinly disguised version of the author, lived in a dreary apartment, worked menial jobs to support her young children and abusive husband, studied at night and weathered the slights meted out by a racist society.
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One study found that the people who experience the greatest job satisfaction aren't the ones in the big, fancy offices; they're the ones who approach their work as a calling, even when that work involves menial labor.
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They lived with their mother in a small house near the railroad tracks, and survived on her earnings from a variety of menial jobs—their absentee father dropped in on the family once or twice a year.
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A pair of assistants help her with the more menial tasks, but she alone hovers over the flames of a blazing charcoal brazier, rolling a mass of crab and egg in boiling oil without batting an eye.
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While she sits on a park bench next to an old woman, while she's at her menial job as a shoe salesman, while she's thrift shopping, and while she's scheming her way through her last years of adolescence.
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Stitched together from a series of long, uninterrupted shots of protesters executing a single menial task on repeat, it's an excruciatingly boring piece of cinema that often feels like staring into the infinitely repeating loop of a gif.
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"I believe that when our kids are our age, they will ask us in amazement how we got along without having a virtual assistant to delegate the menial tasks of our life to," Kittlaus wrote at the time.
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After finding themselves in jail and then doing menial work at a fish cannery in Osaka, they all wind up on the Happy Smile Super Challenge Family Wish Show in order to win a trip back to Springfield.
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There were, for example, many low-wage gods behind the counters at the fast-food joints, and mostly gods seemed to shine shoes and clean floors, and too many menial tasks altogether appeared to fall only to them.
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He complained that an influx of eager workers from poorer, formerly communist parts of the European Union meant that employers now had no incentive to offer a fixed contract or more than the minimum wage for menial work.
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Born in Gainsville, Florida but raised in Brooklyn from the age of eight, Bradley was homeless for much of his adult life, working menial jobs where he could, and working on and off as a James Brown impersonator.
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His first demotion — to menial tasks such as scheduling fleet cars for maintenance — came after he alleged that one of his bosses drove drunk and that a colleague slapped him at a work party, according to his complaint.
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They'd found 20-somethings like Josh, a recent Berkeley graduate who came to Moscow to drive a delivery truck, and Nancy, a fluent Russian speaker who now did menial and secretarial work at Spaso House, the ambassador's residence.
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We got a couple other sandbox designers on the team at that point that could do some of the menial work that I had been doing, so I could focus more on strategy and making sure everything came together.
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Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)We live in an age of super-smart technology built to make our lives easier, so don't struggle with the menial chores of the day when your phone could be doing the job for you.
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The Turk is a convenient metaphor for the worker in today's disrupted economy: Finding himself in the most opulent of settings, a person is confined to a tiny box, performing menial tasks for the benefit of the ruling class.
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After winning power in 2010, Mr. Orban implemented a vast workfare program in which menial tasks have been given to hundreds of thousands of jobseekers — including 73 of the 472 residents of Siklosnagyfalu, a village near the southern border.
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Some of these menial jobs that actually the people that do them — obviously they appreciate the money — but actually, if we can, try and think about the future as jobs that people really want to do and they're rewarding.
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Where Murphy Brown had the leisure to ruminate about politics (it was, after all, part of her job as a reporter), Roseanne was just trying to scrape by, working a series of menial jobs to support her husband and three children.
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KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Transgender people in Pakistan's Sindh province will be able to serve as regular duty police officers, the police chief said, adding it was time to offer more opportunities to a group relegated to menial jobs in government.
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"If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas," King wrote.
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Like Iago and Malvolio, Romeo gets his power from his possession of secrets: He uses his menial jobs at the hospital and the nursing home to gather information, going through the garbage and stitching his finds into a quilt of deception.
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The Off Broadway theater was nascent, and he began attending plays in the Village — "You could go to the theater for a dollar!" he recalled — seeing the works of Beckett, Ionesco, Pirandello and Brecht and supporting himself with menial jobs.
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V, who has expressive hazel eyes she often hides with vintage sunglasses, dropped out of high school and worked at a series of menial jobs, always looking forward to the six months of the year when the sunlight outlasted the dark.
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Yet many members of this underpaid guild get pulled aside to perform more menial tasks, meaning that for an hour of, say, making salad or washing dishes, all they get is $2.13 and, subsequently, no gratuity because they aren't serving guests.
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Jason's a motorcycle enthusiast, so it's no wonder he's got the bike gear down to a T. Jason later pulled into a gas station and pumped some gas ... proving Jason can make even the most menial task look like art.
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Why do we want to hang on to some of these menial jobs that the people that do them — obviously, they appreciate the money — but we can try and think about the future, jobs that people really want to do.
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His Ephraim starts out reserved, if resentful — he's a rule-follower who hates that Tom assigns him all the menial labor and refuses to let him so much as step into the lantern room — before coming undone in spectacular fashion.
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Nonprofit entities with special wage certificates usually isolate people with disabilities in what are known as "sheltered workshops," where they are hidden from the rest of society and usually perform menial jobs that are not available in the competitive economy.
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While Alexa has been a smash hit success since its launch in 2014, becoming the market leader of the nascent voice technology space, its use is still largely limited to menial tasks like playing the music or asking about the weather.
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In it he names and shames French politicians for debasing his father, a former factory worker, and others like him, by forcing them to work menial jobs for little money when they are in no physical condition to do so.
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And while many cooks have started young — the French chef Jacques Pépin left school at 13 to apprentice — traditionally they had to suffer years of mind-numbing menial labor, cuts, burns and abuse before they ever earned the title chef.
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The growth of low-wage worker population has at least two distinct effects: first, the devaluation of low-wage work as unskilled and menial; and, second, the establishment of perceived competition for these jobs among the groups constituting the working poor.
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While taking on the menial tasks of the internship, he slowly developed his distinctive sound—ghostly synth work pushed to in-the-red extremes, while cutthroat basswork threatens to pull you eardrums inside out—eventually landing him a production gig with Hoodrich.
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Now in her third six-year term as a senator for Minnesota, Klobuchar's campaign announcement came amid news reports that staff in her Senate office were asked to do menial tasks, making it difficult for her to hire high-level campaign strategists.
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Part of it is really frustrating: I find myself with this terrible grinding day job with these menial tasks and every fiber of my being is wanting to create something and I can't do it because I'm stuck in this bullshit job.
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While the collection does feature its fair share of larger-than-life and vibrant pieces, there are also less visually dramatic works such as Harold Gilman's 1917 painting of a cleaning lady turned away from the viewer and occupied with menial tasks.
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Cheliotis said that policies put forward by centrist parties like New Democracy and PASOK over the last two decades have maintained a high migrant population which has been crucial for filling low-prestige, poorly paid menial jobs, and holding up the shadow economy.
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"I cannot conclude that the menial and incidental tasks that the respondent performed -- as a slave -- for Salvadoran guerrillas, including cooking, cleaning, and washing clothes, are of 'the same class' as the enumerated forms of assistance set forth in the statute," Wendtland wrote.
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Fabre often works with seemingly endless repetition, stretching things out in a way that moves you from attention to boredom, and eventually a mental departure from the room, your thoughts going on to whatever menial issue might capture you in that moment.
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Surrounding Sami with a strong support group of fellow South Asian professionals working menial jobs, the director, Lena Khan (who wrote the script with Sameer Gardezi, and whose own grandfather was a tiger hunter), knows exactly the story she wants to tell.
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Ms. Campos said she took the "extreme measure" of suing the federal government because the influx of Venezuelans led to a spike in crime, drove down wages for menial jobs and set off an outbreak of measles, which had been eradicated in Brazil.
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Growing up in nineteen-eighties Queens, my friends and I, as young Russian immigrants, unfamiliar with the language, our parents working menial jobs, looked down on blacks and Latinos, who were portrayed as threats by the Reagan Administration and its local proxies.
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Ultimately, he said he was trying to keep families together, describing the dire living conditions faced by some Samoans who leave for jobs in Australia and New Zealand but end up in menial work with every spare bit of money sent home.
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Smart-home products like Roomba vacuums and laundry-folding robots have helped to make menial tasks faster and easier, but there&aposs now a self-changing trash on the market to make one of the most commonly complained about chores almost entirely automated.
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And yet, immersing myself in Berg's story of an impoverished, delusional soldier forced by superior officers to perform humiliating tasks for menial pay, a man driven to murder and self-destruction by feelings of powerlessness, I couldn't help thinking about Mr. Levine's accusers.
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The program, which is about 23 years in the making, is designed to develop a humanoid robot that could one day take over menial or dangerous tasks in space, like cleaning and spacewalking, freeing up astronauts to do more experiments and complex engineering tasks.
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The small army of women who had worked as so-called computers during the first half of the 20th century were leaving the tech industry in droves, as computing went from being perceived as a form of menial labor to a more cerebral, masculine pursuit.
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Your time is precious, and spending just a few seconds downloading an app may save countless hours in the long run — not to mention that, with the time you save on menial tasks, you're better able to focus on matters about which you're truly passionate.
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Bullying was not just endemic, it was structural, with younger boys acting as servants for older ones, carrying out menial tasks and enduring whatever punishments their teen overlords could dream up, in the knowledge that eventually they would get to mete it out themselves.
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And, by showing them engaged in cleaning work, menial work, craft, and debate, the artist leaves space for the proposition that the rights of sex workers are the rights of feminists, migrants, the disabled, and the poor in all places and at all times.
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But many menial workers who keep the Chinese capital going — cleaners, couriers, factory workers, stall owners — are migrants from villages who live on the fringes of the city because of high housing prices and government policies that have been forcing them out of downtown.
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By the time their fifth child was born, the Mutus had settled into a system where they raised money elsewhere in Europe, begging and doing menial work, then came back for a few weeks at a time to Romania, where the money stretched further.
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We meet Adriane's humble father, forced out of his medical residency for "listening sympathetically" to a political speech; her weasly brother, Roderick, stuck in a menial job at the Media Dissemination Bureau (MDB); and Adriane herself, first selected valedictorian and then arrested before graduation.
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As a newly minted lawyer in the early 1960s, Mr. Elie found himself in the vanguard of a nascent movement to integrate downtown lunch counters and other public accommodations and to boycott stores in a black shopping district where blacks could get only menial jobs.
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We see the young Beatles at their most menial: unpacking, tediously answering questions from reporters on the phone, pouring another drink when they realize Fidel Castro's voice is all they can hear on TV and radio (the witty sound design is by Jane Shaw).
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Iger recounted this journey in his memoir "The Ride of a Lifetime," released in September, in which he chronicled how he went from making $150 a week doing "menial labor" on ABC shows to earning over $60 million a year running The Walt Disney Company.
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A co-production of the UK's Channel 4 and the US cable channel AMC, Humans is set in a near future where strikingly realistic-looking androids called synths are increasingly being called on to perform menial or degrading work, from home care to housekeeping to prostitution.
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For example, a recent paper by Stephen Nickell of Oxford University and Jumana Saleheen of the Bank of England found that a ten-percentage-point rise in the share of migrants working in menial jobs, such as cleaning, depressed wages for such positions by just 2%.
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Parents who can only afford to send one child to school send their sons, girls are married off at an extremely young age and expected to stay home to do menial tasks, and girls who do attend school often face violence and threats along the way.
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When he was 16, Darger managed to escape and begin the rest of his life: a mostly solitary existence that consisted of janitorial and other menial labor at Chicago hospitals, attending mass, and creating what's now considered some of the greatest art of the 20th century.
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He spent his youth getting poor grades in school and then flailing around with shitty, menial jobs as a young man, frittering away in a post office, a mortuary, a kitchen... Eventually, he got wise and realized how silly it is to toil for a living.
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Those garments were only for well-bred and well-to-do ladies, playing into what the economist Thorstein Veblen dubbed "conspicuous leisure" — namely, clothes you couldn't work much in, marking the wearers out as wealthy enough to avoid not only toil, but any menial exertion whatsoever.
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Maggio's petition for pauper status said he had worked for minimal wages at menial jobs since being stripped of his judgeship in 2014 by the Arkansas Supreme Court in an unrelated matter and essentially had no assets other than his home and a 13-year-old automobile.
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" About that performance, Frank Rich, a critic for The Times, wrote, "A black man, a free man, a descendant of slaves, a menial laborer, a father, a husband, a lover — Mr. Jones's Troy embraces all the contradictions of being black and male and American in his time.
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Beecroft's cringeworthy views of people from Africa and Jamaica as essentially interchangeable, her uncritical celebration of the role of black people in her life as doing menial labor, and the lazy false equivalence behind her allegation of reverse discrimination against white musicians are beyond the scope of this piece.
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While you're never fearful of the pressure of so much salt water coming down on top of you, navigating Columbia nevertheless carries other stresses—it's a terrifically racist place, where people of color are forced to work menial jobs, and, in some locations, kept as nothing more than slaves.
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But West never connects the dots to the bigger picture, where white women have been overrepresented in media since time immemorial while people of color — irrespective of size or intellect — are still fighting for visibility and freedom from menial, poverty-stricken or criminal roles (or all of the above).
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She held several menial jobs after high school that made her miserable, one working for Satmar leaders doing secretarial work; one in a matzo factory; and another in a group home for adults with developmental disabilities, where she was fired, she told me, after reporting abuses by the staff.
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"I know it may seem menial, a request from a clinically educated mother, but you are doing these children and family a disservice to not further educate physicians or demand surveillance similar to that of Zika," she wrote to an email address she found on the CDC's website.
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It follows studies and news reports over the past year that have documented how millions of inhabitants of Xinjiang, especially the largely Muslim Uighur and Kazakh minorities, have been recruited into programs that assign them to work in factories, cotton farms, textile mills and menial jobs in cities.
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With no actual drama to project, she has instead given Mr. Spacey a series of menial actions to perform over and over as he narrates the story: holding up photographs, sifting through files, carrying boxes, rearranging chairs, taking his jacket and vest on and off, all for no reason.
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She was Zapotec, from a mountain village in Oaxaca state, and had left her three young children with her mother, intending to enter the United States and (so she said) become a menial in a hotel somewhere and send money back to her family who were living in poverty.
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The title character is Jane (Julia Garner), a 20-something who rises before dawn in Astoria, Queens for the privilege of sitting just outside the Manhattan inner sanctum of a plainly Harvey Weinstein-esque studio executive, where she handles scheduling and a host of other, more menial tasks.
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This time, however, some games have made it into the mix, namely Star Child a platform game that Hammonds said "definitely has a story at its core," and Vacation Simulator, the sequel to Owlchemy Labs' Job Simulator, which is focused on the more menial tasks involved in taking time off.
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At the very least the country needs a clear policy on bringing in menial foreign workers, rather than ignoring the abuse of student and trainee visas, says Shigeru Ishiba, a prominent lawmaker in the Liberal Democratic Party who is expected to challenge Mr Abe for the party's leadership in 2018.
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Bits Special Section SAN FRANCISCO — The internet was created nearly 40 years ago by men — and a few women — who envisioned an "intergalactic network" where humans could pull data and computing resources from any mainframe in the world and in the process free up their minds from mundane and menial tasks.
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Before the 1960s and the so-called Quiet Revolution — a political and social upheaval that uprooted a traditional society in Quebec centered on Roman Catholicism — many among the French-speaking majority in Quebec were relegated to agrarian and other menial or low-paying jobs, while the English-speaking minority dominated industry.
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Rhodora may interact with artists and art every day but she was more connected to it when she was trying to dismantle the system in the '80s than she is now, clad in tastefully edgy monochrome clothing that would cost a year's salary for an artist working menial jobs to support themselves.
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Walmart did not invent the argument that giving menial tasks to robots will make human workers happier, but it is — like Amazon, its biggest competitor, whose semi-automated warehouses have so far served as a dark case study in what human morale can withstand — in a position to attempt to prove it.
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With a shrinking advertising base, Mr. Rattray, a fit 53, has had to pare his staff and take on some of the more menial duties himself: helping with obituaries, letters to the editor (which are published in full, in keeping with a longstanding Star policy), and even the community and government calendars.
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We learn that Ms. Shanley wanted to wear a police uniform because being respected and feared came with it (her father had a menial job); that she loved Billie Holiday music and listening to the fights on the radio; that she was an anguished, angry soul; and that her only friend was her dog.
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She understood many years ago, she said, that the highly idiosyncratic art she was making — about so-called menial labor, about scrubbing and picking up and about the existential meaning of garbage itself, pieces that confused many of her peers and unsettled fellow feminists — was not sexy and might never get the recognition it deserved.
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There is a sprayed drawing of a van marked "Rapides Parish Police [St]ate Inmate Labor" on the west wall of Catinca Tabacaru's front room, and a cramped installation in the back, but the majority the exhibition is paint on canvas, pictures of disembodied hands, legs, and feet engaged in various forms of menial work.
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The Liberals are in charge of the Canada 150 celebrations this year, and their branding of this country is famously tied to the Great White North being a magical multicultural land where immigrants with advanced degrees can thrive as menial laborers while Laurentian whites nod sagely to one another during Vinyl Café listening parties.
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If you had the opportunity to have workers who were overeducated, underpaid and highly experienced, whom you could dump all the menial tasks you didn't want to do on, whom you could get to clean up all the problems, and whom you could create a second class out of, wouldn't you want them to stay?
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Photo: APYet another success for our burgeoning class of Silicon Valley overlords and their relentless quest to delegate all menial tasks in life to some sort of app: Booster, a company which dispatches gas trucks to the parking lots of "private communities" so their inhabitants never need to refill their own gas tanks, is now a thing.
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Tom GarrettThomas (Tom) Alexander GarrettFemale Dems see double standard in Klobuchar accusations Ethics investigation finds outgoing House Republican made staff unload groceries, dog-sit Trump signs bill naming post office after soldier whose parents he attacked MORE (R) say that the congressman routinely assigned his staff menial tasks, including picking up groceries and dog poop, among others.
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This was at a time when Nelson Mandela was still in prison and the South African government was trying hard to preserve apartheid — its policy of systematic and legal segregation of its black population, which effectively forced blacks to live in second-class communities, condemned them to menial jobs and largely denied them education or the opportunity for betterment.
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His tasks were menial and his days were rote: he would arrive at the team's complex at 8 in the morning and leave around noon, only to bide his time until the Mets played that night, sitting around at home or playing video games until first pitch in New York or wherever their schedule took them.
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Social science data confirms that the best ways for people of all colors to avoid poverty is to stay in school as long as possible and graduate, take even a menial job to build a resumé and connections, don't marry until you have a career on track and don't have a child until you are married.
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"One of the goals — both the Loewentheils in putting the collection together and ours in putting the digital collection online — is to push back against the predominance of material on African-Americans as enslaved people or working in menial jobs or other stereotypical situations," said Katherine Reagan, a curator of rare books and manuscripts at Cornell.
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The novel opens in 1944, with the budding love of Evelyn, a daughter of a well-to-do family (her mother is Creole, her father a black doctor who has raised himself to respectability), and Renard, a young man from a poor Twelfth Ward neighborhood who works menial jobs at a restaurant but aspires to study medicine.
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Although the broom evoked menial labor as well as an oversized paintbrush, it did not get his work included in the group exhibition Work Ethic, curated by Helen Molesworth, which originated at the Baltimore Museum of Art (October 21978, 21991–January 22014, 22016) and traveled to the Des Moines Center for the Arts (May 453–August 245, 278).
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They assign you jobs that no one else wants to do If your boss gives only you menial tasks well below your level of experience or competence, such as "busy work," then it's a sign that they don't trust or respect your abilities — or worse, that they are actively encouraging you to look for work elsewhere, says Taylor.
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Character limit is a menial thing that does nothing to address the important issues the current iteration of Twitter is facing, like how to police hate speech 2/2 If Twitter fully realized its role as the platform of choice for the president, news orgs and activists, it would ask itself: Do we provide the tools to help disseminate/elevate important info?
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" The court decided that "a pre-programmed robot can perform a menial task but, because a pre-programmed robot has no 'skill' and therefore leaves no room for spontaneous human flaw in an exhibition, it cannot 'perform' a piece of music … just as a wind-up toy does not perform for purposes of [the law] neither does a pre-programmed mechanical robot.
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But Rooney also sets up a clear moral line between Marianne's family and Connell's that isn't concerned with nuance: Marianne's rich family members are fairytale villain levels of evil (Marianne's late father abused her and, now, her brother does—while her mother belittles her) while Connell's hardworking young mother who struggles to get by in menial jobs is just about a saint.
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The Revolution, Wood writes, "was as radical and as revolutionary as any in history," destroying beliefs about the superiority of the wealthy that had stood for centuries: [The Revolution] brought respectability and even dominance to ordinary people long held in contempt and gave dignity to their menial labor in a manner unprecedented in history and to a degree not equaled elsewhere in the world.
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According to a post on his website, Mac's looking for someone who has experience of MailChimp, WordPress, and iMovie, which almost definitely means that he just wants somebody who can get all the menial tasks done quickly so there's more time for kickin' back, gettin' high, listening to Willie Nelson, and reading Reddit (I presume this is pretty much what Mac DeMarco does all day?).
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The National Guard troops that President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE sent to the U.S.–Mexico border in April are performing menial tasks to assist U.S. Border Patrol.
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As it happens, I sort of predicted this 20 years ago, in a piece written for the Times magazine's 100th anniversary (authors were asked to write as if it was 2096, and they were looking back.) I argued then that menial work dealing with the physical world – gardeners, maids, nurses – would survive even as quite a few jobs that used to require college disappeared.
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When he refers to the American ambassador as a "gay son of a bitch" for "meddling in the elections" and reiterates that the Philippines is a "sovereign nation," he is speaking to his people — not only the ones who are still in the Philippines but also the scores of overseas workers who take positions as nurses, nannies, construction workers, and an infinite array of jobs that put them in menial positions.
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One country, the United Arab Emirates, even boasts a minister for AI. At the same time, the world's militaries are developing AI-based weaponry to defeat their enemies, police agencies are experimenting with AI as a surveillance tool to identify or interrogate suspects, and companies are testing its ability to replace humans in menial or more meaningful jobs — all of which may change the equation of life for all of the world's people.
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This isn't the first time the show has gone out of its way to emphasize Claire's influence on Jamie; in Episode 8, when Jamie and Claire returned Young Ian to Lallybroch, Gabaldon's book saw Jamie flogging Young Ian as punishment (for both nephew and uncle — since Jamie then asked Young Ian to flog him in return), but the show took a different tack, with Jamie suggesting that Ian do a menial chore instead.
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