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- Jobsworth abstract "A jobsworth is a person who uses their job description in a deliberately uncooperative way, or who seemingly delights in acting in an obstructive or unhelpful manner."Jobsworth" is a British colloquial word derived from the phrase "I can't do that, it's more than my job's worth", meaning it might lose the person their job: taking the initiative and performing an action, and perhaps in the process breaking a rule, is beyond what the person feels their job description allows. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "A person in authority (esp. a minor official) who insists on adhering to rules and regulations or bureaucratic procedures even at the expense of common sense." Jonathon Green similarly defines "jobsworth" as "a minor factotum whose only status comes from enforcing otherwise petty regulations".An example of the phrase which gave rise to the term occurs in the 1965 Beatles movie Help!, when the assistant scientist character Algernon (played by Roy Kinnear) exclaims "Well it's more than my job's worth to stop him when he's like this, he's out to rule the world...if he can get a government grant." The character Carol Beer in the British comedy series Little Britain usually acts like a jobsworth: she works, for instance, in a bank and travel agency, listlessly inputting customers' requests into her computer only to flatly reply with her catchphrase, "Computer says no..."Another early use was by UK folk-singer Jeremy Taylor, in a song he wrote in the late 1960s:Jobsworth, Jobsworth, It's more than me job's worth,I don't care, rain or snow,whatever you want the answer's no,I can keep you waiting for hours in the queue,and if you don't like it you know what you can do.The term became widespread in vernacular English through its use in the popular 1970s BBC television programme That's Life! which featured Esther Rantzen covering various human interest and consumer topics. A "Jobsworth of the Week" commissionaire's hat was awarded each week to "a startling tale of going by the book".The term remains in use, particularly in the UK, to characterise inflexible employees, petty rule-following and excessive administration.".
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- Jobsworth subject Category:Pejorative_terms_for_people.
- Jobsworth subject Category:Slang.
- Jobsworth comment "A jobsworth is a person who uses their job description in a deliberately uncooperative way, or who seemingly delights in acting in an obstructive or unhelpful manner."Jobsworth" is a British colloquial word derived from the phrase "I can't do that, it's more than my job's worth", meaning it might lose the person their job: taking the initiative and performing an action, and perhaps in the process breaking a rule, is beyond what the person feels their job description allows.".
- Jobsworth label "Jobsworth".
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