Best example of 'jobsworth' ever

[DuckyMcDuck]

Wanted to buy some vitamins (not stock piling but cos I've run out!)

Boots have a 3 for 2 deal so take my 3 to the counter where I'm told there is a limit of 2 packs per person because of panic buying! Even when I explained and showed her the deal, she wouldn't sell them to me

What made me really laugh was when she said I was the third person who'd "tried this trick today"

So I took my illicit stash to another till and bought them there.

Madness, I tell you, madness

On a train. Arrived at destination which was the terminus. Conductor came through. Doors were open already but girl in the seat in front of me hadn't yet got her stuff together. Her ticket, for one stop, wasn't valud on that train company. He charged her the £10 penalty fare. Given that she could well have hopped off 20 secs earlier with noone the wider, she'd only gone one stop and it is really confusing if you're not regular, I thought that was a bit jobsworthy. He could have been kind and just advised her.

I hate jobworths i will be back to post mine in a bit when i get dd to have her nap

Neither of those sound that egregious to me.

I find it more annoying when people think the rules shouldn't apply to them and are unpleasant to staff who are simply trying to do their jobs

Neither of the examples are jobsworths. Both are examples of people doing what their employer tells them to do.

Cohle agree.

People sneer at jobsworths but a lot of the time people are actually in fear of losing their jobs. There is very little room for making your own common sense decisions when you are at the bottom of a huge organisation.

The boots example is one of a company being totally bloody inconsistent. If they want to limit people to 2 of anything, they need to suspend their 3 for 2 deals.

It's shit to work somewhere where you have to deal with the fall out from management's lack of thinking things through.

Once asked Dd (who was about 3 at the time) to pick a number between 1 and 8 in earshot of the lottery kiosk cashier. Didn't say what it was for and I wasn't in the queue at this point. I went and did my shopping and then went back to the kiosk to get a scratch card and she refused to serve me. Said she couldn't serve me because I'd let Dd choose the number. I said okay I'll choose another one then and she said no because I could be buying it for Dd.

The thread should really be titled 'Best example of someone trying to keep their job who has no choice but to enforce daft rules made by their company, and is probably sick and tired of taking underserved flak from the public'.

Yep I totally agree with @Cohle and others, it really irritates me when people think the rules shouldn't apply to them, and don't understand the risks to employees of bending those rules and potentially putting their jobs at risk.

I agree with PPs how dare employees follow company policy and not put their job on the line to pacify a customer. How very dare they.

The 3 for 2 thing is mix and match though, isn't it? So the offer can still stand while limited multiple purchases of the same thing.

The 3x2 is across all supplements etc though isn't it? So the OP could have done what any reasonable and non CF customer would do, and either buy 2 and pay for 2 or get something different for the third item.

Crossed with Abelino

People are stockpiling vitamins?!!! That's so bonkers. 'Come the apocalypse at least I'll be getting my daily vitamin C dose...'

A chemist in boots tried to stop me buying a bottle of calpol because I had a newborn with me, even though I explained it was for my older child.
I just went to pay for it at a different till.

I have a parking pass for local residents for town car parks which is £25 per year.

You can change the ref in the app if you get a new car.

I had changed cars and updated the ref but had done a typo instead of M had typed N.

Got back to car and warden was ticketing me. He said he knew it was a typo cos all the rest was the same but he couldn't let me off because I should've checked it,

Yes that's true but for FFS. I app awake and they waived it immediately.

Total jobsworth twat he was.

A chemist in boots tried to stop me buying a bottle of calpol because I had a newborn with me, even though I explained it was for my older child.

I had that in Boots years ago too. I was pregnant and had been hospitalised and left hospital with a prescription from my consultant which included painkillers. The pharmacist refused to let me have the pain relief as she said that only paracetamol is recommended in pregnancy. Well, I knew that, and ideally I wouldn't have needed anything stronger, but unfortunately I was ill and my consultant had discussed this with me and was satisfied that it was the lesser of two evils. But no, pharmacist wasn't having it.

When my dd2 was born we opened a bank account for her, the available account had changed since the older 2 and there was no longer a passbook and it became affectionately known as the 'scrappy paper account' as I had simply been given her account details on a piece of paper.

When she was a few months old I wanted to know her balance, she was in the pram next to me. Apparently I couldn't be told due to data protection. I am named on the account, I objected saying she is 6months old, but still no. I guess I should have picked her up and got him to tell her instead

She is 8, I don't know what her balance is, I'll have to send her in.

DH had a years contract job coming straight out of university. He signed up on Jobseeker's Allowance after this and went to his weekly meeting with the regular worker there he met.

She told him to remove his first class honours degree off his CV as it would put people off employing him as they would think he would leave to go to a professional job. When he asked what he would say he had been doing for three whole years, they recommended saying that he had been unemployed. 🤔

She told him to ensure he applied for his 40 jobs per week and anything would go because "9-5 jobs just don't exist anymore". When DH asked what hours she worked she responded with, "9-5".

I got asked ID for alcohol free beer by some jumped up pri@k! Because he has 0.05% alcohol! Lols

Just to be clear, at no point was I rude or unpleasant to anyone.

Interesting article regarding non alcoholic beverages.

steadydrinker.com/articles/id-alcohol-free-beer/

And thinking about it, I did have different items, 2 multi vitamins and 1 evening primrose oil.

@isabellerossignol
That really annoys me when the pharmacist questions your prescription.
Last time I told them very nicely that until they had access to my medical records, what I am prescribed has nothing to do with them.

I do understand they have to be cautious, but prescriptions they should back off from.

In the ops example, how can it be company policy is she was able to purchase at another till? Surely the tills would have been coded to not accept the offer.