"I can't do that, it's more than my job's worth". 早上去衙門(mén)口兒辦事，需要復(fù)印材料，大廳里的復(fù)印機(jī)壞了，得到的答復(fù)是“機(jī)器中午才能修好，辦公室內(nèi)的打印機(jī)不能給外來(lái)人員使用。”;大肚子孕婦去家門(mén)口的超市買米，管理人員說(shuō)“我們規(guī)定三袋大米才負(fù)責(zé)送貨，手推車不能外借”......生活中碰上諸如此類在自己的工作崗位上嚴(yán)守工作職責(zé)和規(guī)章制度，死板得一點(diǎn)不愿幫助別人的人，你是不是很光火?

Few stereotypes 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 individuals, exercising their authority unreasonably.

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(diǎn)兒周轉(zhuǎn)的余地都沒(méi)有。It often refers to people who have bureaucratic jobs and they never seem to want to help you! 這個(gè)詞經(jīng)常用來(lái)描繪那些在官僚政府機(jī)構(gòu)工作的人，很死板，很不愿意幫人。

"Jobsworth" 是個(gè)貶義用語(yǔ)，同時(shí)也是英國(guó)一個(gè)特有的詞匯。這個(gè)詞的起源是什么呢?"Jobsworth" 來(lái)自于兩個(gè)詞 job's worth——The person won't help you because they think that to be helpful is more than their job's worth，就是說(shuō)這種人不愿意幫助別人，因?yàn)樗麄冋J(rèn)為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, inevitably, "It's more than my job's worth." 。

為什么會(huì)有那么多的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 discretion. 按部就班工作，不犯錯(cuò)就不會(huì)惹麻煩的想法讓人們做起事來(lái)顯得死板而麻木。

對(duì)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(duì)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的職員，少一些petty rule-following and excessive 的職能部門(mén)，多一點(diǎn)付出，多一絲關(guān)懷，大家一起在互幫互助的社會(huì)氛圍里享受和諧社會(huì)的溫暖。

說(shuō)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......