As we seem to be in the awards season how about an award for the most irritating motoring related jobsworth any of you have come across in the last year?
Be carefull with naming and shaming though and nothing libelous!
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How about the security guard supervisor at the entrance to my sub-division (a gated community) who confiscated my car because the windshield sticker permit to enter the area was on the bottom left instead the top right of the glass?
Yeah it was my fault, I should have just bought him off.
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My town's traffic wardens are noted for their unrelenting attention to duty and aim of causing maximum frustration and financial pain for motorists.
So when one of them allowed the driver of a small van to park right on the pavement, in front of one of a number of very busy shops, to make a call across the road, I made my feelings known when I had to use the equally busy road to get past the vehicle.
The result. I was told to "Go away", but in somewhat stronger language...:-)
Yet if an ordinary motorist had requested the same treatment as the van driver he/she too would doubtless have been told to "Go away...."
Another point is that, in the case of these wardens, the advice given in the Highway Code regarding picking up or dropping off passengers alongside yellow line markings appears to be a crime.
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I wonder if to some degree the jobsworth attitude is created by the management. Any "thinking" (aka application of common sense) is likely to be at best criticised, at worst punished as a violation of "the standards", so you end up with employees who's attitude turns to (struggling to avoid swear filter here) and just apply the rules.
We are more and more engulfed with "audits", "quality processes", ISOnnnn standards, and the management want all the ticks in all the boxes. Without spending too much of course.
That said, there's a lot of natural jobsworths, quite a few in the House of Commons handing over power to Europe cos it's too much trouble for them to do the job we pay them to do. Oops. Going well off thread there.
John
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I agree. So often its those that have the task of implementing policy that get the blame, rather than those that formulate the policy.
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