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Grunt work

Right now, we may say that his job makes him kind of feel like an ass, if you don’t mind – that is, like a donkey doing what is known as “donkey work”.

Donkey work?

That’s grunt work befitting a donkey, okay?

Okay and all right, let’s read a few recent examples of “grunt work” in the media:

1. A teacher who sits in lounges and libraries doing nothing all day — sometimes even napping — is challenging the city to make him earn his $94,000 salary.

“I come to work every day, sit down and do nothing,” said David Suker, who spent 15 years helping “at risk” teens in the Bronx earn a general equivalency diploma, or GED.

Suker, 48, complains he is “warehoused” in the Absent Teacher Reserve, a pool of educators without permanent jobs that costs an estimated $100 million a year. Right now, there are 1,304 mothballed city Department of Education staffers in the ATR.

The DOE fired the Army veteran, who suffers from PTSD, after he made news as an Occupy Wall Street protester who clashed with cops. He appealed his firing in court and won, paying only a $7,000 fine.

But instead of returning Suker to his old job or a similar one, the DOE banished him to the ATR, where teachers, guidance counselors and others who can’t get rehired move from school to school as substitutes.