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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://social.coop/users/adamgreenfield/statuses/112163728128310145">Adam Greenfield (adamgreenfield@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 04:51:48 JST</a><a href="https://social.coop/@adamgreenfield" title="adamgreenfield@social.coop"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/25390-48-20240414223613.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Adam Greenfield" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Adam Greenfield</a><div><a href="https://mas.to/@franktaber/112163700549500237" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p><a href="https://mas.to/@franktaber">@franktaber</a> Early childhood education, or more frankly conditioning, and what is praised, rewarded and encouraged (or conversely singled out for disapproval and punishment) in the highly neuroplastic years of early life. A certain amount of canny observation, as well, of the similar gradients obtaining in adult life. Even language norms, e.g. I had to move to the UK to learn the term “jobsworth,” for example. <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobsworth" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobsworth</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2867561#notice-5696734">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-03-27T04:51:48+09:00" title="Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 04:51:48 JST">about 8 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://social.coop/@adamgreenfield/112163728128310145" rel="external" title="Sent from social.coop via ActivityPub">social.coop</a></span></span><a href="https://social.coop/@adamgreenfield/112163728128310145">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobsworth">Jobsworth</a></h5><div></div></header><div>A jobsworth  is a person who uses the (typically small) authority of their job in a deliberately uncooperative way, or who seemingly delights in acting in an obstructive or unhelpful manner. It characterises one who upholds petty rules even at the expense of effectiveness or efficiency.  Related concepts include malicious compliance, another passive-aggressive behavior, and micromanagement, which can impair progress through excessive focus on details and obsessive control over those one has authority over.Origin"Jobsworth" is a British colloquialism derived from the notion that something being asked of one in a work environment is too great to risk their job over, as in, "I can't do that; it's more than my job's worth." 
The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "A person in authority (esp. a minor official) who insists on adhering to rules and regulations or bureaucratic procedures even at the expense of common sense." Jonathon Green similarly defines "jobsworth" as "a minor factotum whose only status comes from enforcing otherwise petty regulations".  It is a form of passive aggressive obstructionism, using...</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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@franktaber Early childhood education, or more frankly conditioning, and what is praised, rewarded and encouraged (or conversely singled out for disapproval and punishment) in the highly neuroplastic years of early life. A certain amount of canny observation, as well, of the similar gradients obtaining in adult life. Even language norms, e.g. I had to move to the UK to learn the term “jobsworth,” for example. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobsworth
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  A jobsworth is a person who uses the (typically small) authority of their job in a deliberately uncooperative way, or who seemingly delights in acting in an obstructive or unhelpful manner. It characterises one who upholds petty rules even at the expense of effectiveness or efficiency. Related concepts include malicious compliance, another passive-aggressive behavior, and micromanagement, which can impair progress through excessive focus on details and obsessive control over those one has authority over. Origin "Jobsworth" is a British colloquialism derived from the notion that something being asked of one in a work environment is too great to risk their job over, as in, "I can't do that; it's more than my job's worth." The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "A person in authority (esp. a minor official) who insists on adhering to rules and regulations or bureaucratic procedures even at the expense of common sense." Jonathon Green similarly defines "jobsworth" as "a minor factotum whose only status comes from enforcing otherwise petty regulations". It is a form of passive aggressive obstructionism, using...

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