Minimum wage employee who gets wet over what little power trip they have from behind the counter because they lack any sense of purpose in their own personal lives out of work.
Customer: can I have a ketchup?

Mcdonalds worker: that’ll be 10p

Customer: no thanks, jobsworth
by NotSalsal May 16, 2023
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When an individual ranked higher than yourself in any organisation asks you to perform a pointless task.
"Why is the company making us do this, the boss is such a jobsworth"
by Steve Ellis September 20, 2003
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A person who is very pedantic at work and strictly adheres to the rules; so called because of their oft used exclamation.
I can't let you do that, it's more than my job's worth.
by VAKI5 May 7, 2005
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A very minor official, who follows rules and regulation to the letter, however nonsensical this approach may be. Characteristic of the current Labour government in the UK. Also colloquially known as "Dickheads PLC", they follow in the same vein as health and safety nazis.
"A motorist in Waltham Forest, East London, was fined for parking on double yellow lines that were not even there when he parked his car. The lorry painting the lines had drawn around the stationary vehicle." - Jobsworth #1

"A council spent £5,000 planting yew trees to screen a new children's play area. It then dug them up again after health and safety experts advised children could fall ill if they gobbled 'several handfuls' of leaves." - Jobsworth #2
by neverbelieve August 12, 2007
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When a fat, greasy bar man hunts you down because you wont take your wood away and there's a band coming at 6 but your stranded due to adverse weather conditions and your trying to find a canoe
Look you jobsworth spam dagger.. i'm trying to get a canoe to get to you but i might not be there before the band gets there at 6 so you might have to be a hero and cut the wood with your fat spam axe.
by Bryoan February 18, 2012
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A person within a job that assumes some authority, but abuses their role using petty little rules to make themselves feel good.
That methead tried to fine me cos my ticket was 1 minute past being invalid, absolute jobsworth.
by DickChocolate1080 March 17, 2022
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