menial:
(plural: ‘menials‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
a menial scrubbing the kitchen floor
a servant in a house or office who does all the dirty work, such as cleaning toilets and bathrooms, mopping floors, emptying trash-cans/garbage-cans, etc.;
a worker with a very low job the requires very little or no skill;
a person who does not have or does not show any self-esteem/self-respect, i.e. acting or working like a slave, without any personal opinion or showing no courage to say no to things that he/she does not like, etc.,
menials cleaning a toilet
There used to be at least one menial in rich houses until recent past; these days, however, the job of a menial is not as hard and humiliating as it was some years ago because of the machines and devices used in cleaning tasks.
Many of the migrant workers from Asia to the Gulf countries are menials, working longer hours for less pay with the job insecurity ever looming over their heads.
In some societies, people from low castes live and die as menials at the homes of their masters from upper castes.
