hackwork

Etymology

hack + work

noun

1. Work, usually of a professional nature, either repetitive or done to a formula.
   During those fifteen months, he cannot have earned more than $10 a month from writing, mostly from the worst sort of hackwork 1978, Andrew Sinclair, Jack. A Biography of Jack London., page 56
   Early on, the film even blunders into outright hackwork, employing laughably literal-minded needle drops. 3 July 2019, Mike D'Angelo, “Oscar Isaac and Ben Affleck blunder through a heavy heist in J.C. Chandor’s Triple Frontier”, in AV Club