Do not be a jobsworth

The English folk-singer, Jeremy Taylor, popularised the word in his 1973 song entitled Jobsworth. Part of the lyrics go, “Jobsworth, it is more than my jobsworth, 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.” If this doesn’t scream blithe indifference and stolid apathy, I wonder what does!

If you are discerning,  you’d have picked that being a jobsworth is a curse, not a blessing. That jobsworths are proud, overzealous and pedantic employees.