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
"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
A Jobsworth is somebody, usually who works for the government who gets paid minimum wage yet takes their job as seriously as if they were working for some secret military organisation. The common jobsworth is usually found working for the Devonia police force, however a more rare and more dangerous type of jobsworth is found working for London Transport or as Security guards at rock music venues in London. These are more dangerous as they usually originate from countries with secret police, mafia and fascist regimes and therefore guard their miniscule amounts of responsibility with their lives
The scabbing jobsworth wouldn't let us stay for the after party, we were manhandled out of the venue.
by ChiffonsandEyeliner January 24, 2006
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.
by NotSalsal May 16, 2023
When an individual ranked higher than yourself in any organisation asks you to perform a pointless task.
by Steve Ellis September 20, 2003
by sphincternator June 6, 2009
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
A person within a job that assumes some authority, but abuses their role using petty little rules to make themselves feel good.
by DickChocolate1080 March 17, 2022