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But neither jobsworth or clockwatcher (nor neccessarily mine, timeserver) necessarily imply incompetence.
Someone could be an infuriating, nitpicking jobsworth but actually pretty good at their job (maybe _because_ they are a jobsworth! )
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'Clockwatcher' seems like the closest well-known term I can recall, though it's not perfect. 'Jobsworth' similarly.
'Peter' could work (as in the Peter Principle)
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Originally posted by courtg9000 View PostI am after a single word to describe an overpaid underworked workshy public servant.
Sinecurist?
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Originally posted by WTFH View Post
"I am jealous of your employee's ability to be overpaid, underworked, incompetent and workshy. While I'm sure his local village has appointed a new idiot, I have to admire his skills in tricking you into giving him money for nothing, and as such he is my new role-model."
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Originally posted by WTFH View Post"He is impossible to underestimate"
"He should carry a plant to replace the air he is wasting"
"I'm not saying he's the dumbest person in the world, just that he better hopes they don't die"
"I am jealous of your employee's ability to be overpaid, underworked, incompetent and workshy. While I'm sure his local village has appointed a new idiot, I have to admire his skills in tricking you into giving him money for nothing, and as such he is my new role-model."
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"He is impossible to underestimate"
"He should carry a plant to replace the air he is wasting"
"I'm not saying he's the dumbest person in the world, just that he better hopes they don't die"
"I am jealous of your employee's ability to be overpaid, underworked, incompetent and workshy. While I'm sure his local village has appointed a new idiot, I have to admire his skills in tricking you into giving him money for nothing, and as such he is my new role-model."
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Originally posted by courtg9000 View PostI am after a single word to describe an overpaid underworked workshy public servant.
Can anyone help?
PS: "A Boris" has been deemed unsuitable as has a Hancock, Gove, Patel, Raab and other similar!
A "wonky shopping trolley"? (c) Dominic Cummings
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Originally posted by ladymuck View PostDoes it have to be a single word?
Shame we don't do compound nouns like the Germans do
Everything after the word obviously is what I need to encapsulate!
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