Internships should offer students a genuine work opportunity, not just
scutwork, said Noelle Codispoti, executive director of Gamma Iota Sigma, the international collegiate fraternity for students pursuing careers in risk management, insurance and actuarial science.
Thus, a lower resident per specialist ratio may lead to workload and burnout for the few residents available to provide both hospital care and "
scutwork" (tasks that are tedious and monotonous or trivial and menial).
At least it wasn't my name at the bottom of those letters, and I justified my
scutwork by frequently reminding myself that the object of their attention had a proven connection to my college major in English literature.
As a humble assistant to the world-renowned scientific explorer Professor Rosse, Emery gets all of the
scutwork and none of the glory.
Those were, I suppose, the glory days of publishing in the United States, for at Viking I was able to learn not only from Cowley but from Alan Williams, another highly skilled editor who did most of the
scutwork on my manuscript.
We seem to like this simple idea that leadership is somehow a noble enterprise, leaving the
scutwork of actually getting things done to those control-freak managers.
* Regarding Andrew Lam's Viewpoint piece, "When teaching becomes
scutwork" (NCR, Jan.
Its staff of law clerks, sitting as its certiorari panel, plays a large role in the selection of the few cases it agrees to decide, so that the Justices provide a model for lower court judges opting to delegate their
scutwork to staff, and to limit their own chores to those that are more fun.
Someone has to manage them, turn them into accounts with specialized debit cards attached to them, and coordinate the movement of payments between providers, pharmaceutical benefit managers, and banks, and do all the
scutwork of transaction processing.
Bush's evident disdain for the
scutwork of multilateral diplomacy.
Despite his self-professed "taste for pleasure," Morris was a dynamo of committee work, never flinching from long nights of tedious but necessary administrative
scutwork in often atrocious conditions.
Other people must be doing the daily
scutwork, so that the Superheroes can concentrate on what they do best.