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I can't do that, it's more than my job's worth. 早上去衙门口儿办事，需要复印材料，大厅里的复印机坏了，得到的回话是机器中午才能修好，办公室内的打印机不可以给外来职员用。；大肚子孕妇去家门口的超市买米，管理职员说大家规定三袋大米才负责送货，手推车不可以外借......日常碰上诸这样类在我们的工作职位上严守工作职责和规章规范，死板得一点不愿帮助其他人的人，你是否非常光火？

Few stereotypes1 are hated more than a jobsworth. Everyone has met one at one time or another. To many people's minds, the term conjurs images of small-minded, petty inpiduals, exercising their authority unreasonably2.

What's a jobsworth? A jobsworth is a person who only does the work they're supposed to do and nothing else. A jobsworth 做事情完全是按部就班，一点儿周转的空间都没。It often refers to people who have bureaucratic3 jobs and they never seem to want to help you! 这个词常常用来描绘那些在官僚政府机构工作的人，非常死板，非常不想帮人。

Jobsworth 是个贬义用语，同时也是英国一个特有些词语。这个词的由来是什么呢？Jobsworth 源于两个词 job's worthThe person won't help you because they think that to be helpful is more than their job's worth，就是说这种人不想帮助其他人，由于他们觉得帮人是超出了他们的工作范围。这种人常常挂在嘴边的就是这两句：Rules is rules and, inevitably4, It's more than my job's worth. 。

为何会有那样多的jobsworth？If you have a real fear of losing your job, why should you risk making an unnecessary mistake for someone who has not played by the rules? Following a clear rule is always going to be easier than exercising a difficult discretion5. 按部就班工作，不犯了错误就不会惹麻烦的想法叫人们做起事来看上去死板而麻木。

对话1

A: I waited in a queue at the post office for an hour earlier for my stamps and then the man behind the desk told me I had to stand in a different queue to buy an envelope.

B: No way, what a jobsworth!

对话 2

A: So Helen, have you brought the script to the studio?

B: No, that's not part of my job. I'm not responsible for the scripts.

A: So come on Helen, where are those scripts?

B: I told you, it's not my job to bring the scripts to the studio.

A: You really are a jobsworth, aren't you?

B: only joking! I've got the scripts right here.

Don't be such a jobsworth! 少一些officious and inflexible的员工，少一些petty rule-following and excessive 的职能部门，多一点付出，多一丝关怀，大伙一块在互帮互助的社会环境里享受和谐社会的温暖。

说到这里，Jeremy Taylor的歌声在耳际回荡：Jobsworth, Jobsworth, Its more than me job's worth, I can keep you waiting for hours in the queue, And if you don't like it you know what you can do......