paper pusher

noun

chiefly US, informal + disapproving

: someone who does boring or unimportant work in an office

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Over the next year and a half, Kelsey kept pressing for more information while Richardson-Merrell cast her as a chiding paper pusher and, in Europe, babies came out with flippers and heart defects. —