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jobsworth
noun
anyone in a position of authority (no matter how petty) who reinforces the personal power of office by insistence on the finer details of whichever bureaucracy or rulebook is represented, generally to veto or reject a course of action UK, 1970
From the expression, “It’s more than my job’s worth”.- Jobsworth, jobsworth / More than me job’s worth. — Jeremy Taylor, Jobsworth, 1973
- [S]ome jobsworth will accuse you of being a camped-out diddicoi and serve you with a ten quid overnight parking bill. — John Milne, Alive and Kicking, p. 23, 1998
- A few of the screws [prison officers] weren’t amused, like Mrs Crabtree and this other one who was a real by-the-book jobsworth character. — Dave Courtney, Stop the Ride I Want to Get Off, p. 349, 1999
- They’ve got to look like lazy incompetent jobsworths[.] — Chris Ryan, The Watchman, p. 227, 2001
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