JobsworthsAll over the world there are little people following the rules and being arsey because, let's face it, it's fun.
Tell us about your experiences with petty jobsworths, or, if you are a petty jobsworth, tell us how much you get off on it.
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chthonic, Thu 12 May 2005, 9:53)
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Spare chairsNot me, but my sister.
She worked for a drug addict rehab organisation. Many of the staff were ex-addicts, and apparently they are big into their structure and order and stuff. She had to fill in 4 forms if she wanted some pencils from the stationary cupboard.
One day, she was having a meeting, and needed some extra chairs. She went next door, to the empty meeting room, to fetch some. The woman who manages the meeting rooms stopped her in her tracks.
Woman: 'You can't have any of those chairs'.
Sister: 'But I need them for my meeting. Nobody's using this room for the rest of the day.'
Woman (consulting clipboard): 'It says here that those chairs have to be in that meeting room. So you can't have any. Sorry.'
(, Thu 12 May 2005, 21:05, Reply)
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