Synonyms and antonyms of People who do boring, unimportant or unpleasant work in British Thesaurus

peon (noun)

Indian English someone who has a low level job in an office

drudge (noun)

someone who has to do a lot of boring and unpleasant work

workhorse (noun)

someone who does a lot of hard or boring work

foot soldier (noun)

someone with a junior position in a company, whose job is to do necessary but boring work

drone (noun)

someone who does boring work for very little money

hireling (noun)

mainly literary someone who is willing to do unpleasant or illegal jobs for people in order to earn money

pen-pusher (noun)

Britishinformal someone who has a boring job in an office

flunkey (noun)

an insulting word for someone who does unimportant work

slave labour (noun)

the people that do this kind of work

bottom feeder (noun)

mainly Americaninformal someone who earns money by doing things that most people do not like or by taking advantage of other people’s problems

grunt (noun)

Americaninformal someone who does boring work

pencil pusher (noun)

Americaninformal a pen-pusher

pink-collar (adjective)

informal pink-collar workers do work with low pay that is traditionally done by women, especially young women. Some people find this expression offensive