| In one small room a grey-haired jobsworth barked angrily at three tourists who'd dared to point their fingers too close to a minor masterpiece. |
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| It's just a shame he's inherited such a bunch of jobsworth twerps underneath him. |
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| Or maybe Britain's reputation for politeness is long gone, replaced by a surly jobsworth attitude that slowly sours every day in this city. |
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| If he had been a jobsworth he would have gone home but he stayed there for six or eight hours and got no extra pay. |
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| Then a numpty, walkie-talkie jobsworth in a parka sidles up and tells me to shove off. |
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| I feel as if a day of my working life or living life has been taken away by someone who is a jobsworth. |
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| But in the congratulating throng, a jobsworth barred him from the hallowed ground. |
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| He appears to have won that battle because fire safety officers are much more sensible, but there is no defeating the jobsworth. |
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| I resent some jobsworth thinking I'd blagged my way on to the practice ground. |
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| The bus stopped and we were all told by Eddie to be silent as a military style jobsworth with an unfeasibly large hat looked the bus over. |
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| The guy behind the counter was the biggest jobsworth you could ever hope to encounter. |
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| This bore was regaling anyone who cared to listen with the story of how an officious jobsworth had refused him admission to some function or other. |
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| I welcome the idea of a chief inspector of hospitals, but it must be given to a fearless campaigner not a jobsworth. |
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| Railways should be swiftly re-nationalised and their aggressively jobsworth staff retrained as secure unit screws. |
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| Just imagine the reaction if England trail in third behind Australia and Wales in the World Cup pool stages having clung to their jobsworth selection policy on overseas-based contenders. |
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| Audience favourite was the versatile Don Townend, who glided brilliantly from doddery lollipop man to irate Welsh shopkeeper to jobsworth zookeeper. |
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