This is bullshit. There are any number of 'easy' things that need to get done. The discipline in being a grown up no bullshit engineer is to do all of these easy things well, without errors and with appropriate test coverage. If you are in my team, I will appreciate and reward your maturity and attention to detail. What I don't want is somebody who always want's to work on the 'interesting' problem at the expense of the small stuff. grow up.