“Jobsworth “ is a British colloquial word derived from the phrase “I can’t do that, it’s more than my job’s worth”, meaning it might lose the person their job: taking the initiative and performing an action, and perhaps in the process breaking a rule, is beyond what the person feels their job description allows.
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“If human contact is ever made, anyone in real authority is never available, always off that day, in conference or not in the office at that moment. One knows one is being fobbed off.”
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Don’t wanna fob me off. I get mean