I can't do that, it's more than my job's worth. 早上去衙門口兒辦事，需要復印材料，大廳里的復印機壞了，得到的回話是機器中午才能修好，辦公室內的打印機不可以給外來職員用。；大肚子孕婦去家門口的超市買米，管理職員說大家規(guī)定三袋大米才負責送貨，手推車不可以外借......日常碰上諸這樣類在我們的工作職位上嚴守工作職責和規(guī)章規(guī)范，死板得一點不愿幫助其他人的人，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，一點兒周轉的空間都沒。It often refers to people who have bureaucratic3 jobs and they never seem to want to help you! 這個詞常常用來描繪那些在官僚政府機構工作的人，非常死板，非常不想幫人。

Jobsworth 是個貶義用語，同時也是英國一個特有些詞語。這個詞的由來是什么呢？Jobsworth 源于兩個詞 job's worthThe person won't help you because they think that to be helpful is more than their job's worth，就是說這種人不想幫助其他人，由于他們覺得幫人是超出了他們的工作范圍。這種人常常掛在嘴邊的就是這兩句：Rules is rules and, inevitably4, It's more than my job's worth. 。

為何會有那樣多的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，不犯了錯誤就不會惹麻煩的想法叫人們做起事來看上去死板而麻木。

對話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!

對話 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的員工，少一些petty rule-following and excessive 的職能部門，多一點付出，多一絲關懷，大伙一塊在互幫互助的社會環(huán)境里享受和諧社會的溫暖。

說到這里，Jeremy Taylor的歌聲在耳際回蕩：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......