To be fair, your employer is not concerned with your resume. They certainly don't pay you a premium for working on things that look boring or harmful on a resum

To be fair, your employer is not concerned with your resume. They certainly don't pay you a premium for working on things that look boring or harmful on a resume. If companies were serious about providing realistic advancement opportunities (in salary, in tech, in responsibility) there wouldn't be as much of an impulse to work on "cool" (i.e., marketable) projects.