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

Niece's daughter, a consultant plastic surgeon.

I don't see the relevance.

Silly Tesco employee last week. Tried to buy a pack of those cold and flu sachets after work as I was feeling really bunged up. Went to self service and it flashed up that I needed to be over 16 to buy (I’m 34)
Employee comes over and he asks if I have any ID, I say no as I didn’t expect to be IDed for them (I certainly do not look 15 or under!)
He said in a really patronising way “sorry I can’t sell them unless you return with some ID!”

For fucks sake he could clearly see I had a cold, had my car keys in my hand, still had my NHS lanyard on from work.

I get that they have to ID people for things like alcohol etc but ffs some cold and flu sachets

I was buying some clarkes sandals back in the day, the classic crepe-soled Enid Blyton types, red. Because I have very small feet I was buying them in the children's shoe dept. "Are they for you?" the assistant asked. When I said they were for me she said she'd have to charge me extra tax because I was an adult.
My SIL can wear children's shoes, and was always delighted that she didn't have to pay VAT.

DD had bad facial eczema when she was a toddler and was prescribed steroid cream by her dermatology consultant. I was told to lie to the pharmacist and tell them it was for me as they wouldn’t give it to me for a child. I get that pharmacists have responsibility so not really to do with being a jobsworth but it seems strange there’s no way for a consultant to write a note for a pharmacist explaining why it’s necessary rather than making the patient lie!
This doesn't make sense, unless the doctor just told you to buy the cream over the counter. If you had a prescription, presumable it was in your child's name?

Post below reminded me that at 32 I got ID'd buying some flimsy plastic cutlery, because of the 'knives' (I definitely look my age). I didn't have my driving licence with me so I couldn't get them - not a big deal, but a bit daft given I could have done more damage with a ball point pen if I wanted.

I've also had the over zealous American alcohol ID'ing, only in Disney, Florida where one server refused to serve me because I didn't have my passport with me - I had my driving licence and a photo of my passport, but apparently I should have brought my actual passport with me.

I was ID'd in tesco for buying teaspoons.

I do mourn the days when common sense was permitted to be used in all walks of life

This doesn't make sense, unless the doctor just told you to buy the cream over the counter.

Consultants prescribe via GPs. I have also been sent to buy over counter stuff aa its quicker- I would assume you cant buy said cream for under a certain age or specific uses.

most of them are usually found in the following job roles

parking attendants / wardens

nightclub doorstaff

police

all usually have power issues or have been bullied as kids and want to exact revenge as adults in any way shape or form

Justyouandme34

I think Tesco employees don’t seem to have any idea of what their Think 25 actually means.

A couple of years ago I went to try and buy a lottery ticket and was told I couldn’t as I had to prove I was over 25 and wasn’t carrying ID

I was mid 50s, look a lot older, also had my car keys.

The queue behind me were laughing because it was so ludicrous that a grey haired old woman was being asked to prove she was not a young teenager

Think 25 is there for people to think for themselves and if someone like me walks in to make the judgement that I am obviously older than 16.

Blobby10 spoons can be lethal in the wrong hands. Remember what happened in American Ultra

Most of these examples aren't actually "jobsworths".

And if the cinema crowd cheered it's because you finally stopped holding everyone up. Nothing worse than missing the start of a film because of some awkward customer

And if the cinema crowd cheered it's because you finally stopped holding everyone up. Nothing worse than missing the start of a film because of some awkward customer

Nah - the front few people had already suggested to the manager that she was being a jobsworth and should just let me go in.

I had Boots refuse to sell me some codeine for my husband when I was pregnant. How bloody infantilising!

Because it was the only way to shift you!

Our new bin men are a bit jobsworth.
My old house was a different council and they would take all the recycling I could chuck at them. I just had to leave the extra in a cardboard box by the blue bin. Not a problem.

Moved here and I'd understandably got lots of cardboard from appliances and moving boxes etc. Left them out next to my recycle bin, neatly in a box on there own. Couldn't take those. "If its not in the bin, we cant take it".

Funny thing is, had a letter last week telling me recycling is changing slightly and we can leave any extra in cardboard boxes beside the bin.

Tbh somebody tried to ID me for something I would be delighted and take it as a compliment!I don't think pharmacists are being jobsworths questioning prescriptions, mistakes can and do happen on prescriptions they would be being negligent it they just let things go.

This thread has me splitting my sides with laughter

Attempting to buy Canesten cream at the Pharmacy was a jobsworths dream.
I'd used the last of a previously used tube and went to the pharmacy to buy some more. The Pharmacist asked me when i had last used it and i told her yesterday. She told me in that case, she couldn't sell me it and i needed to see my G.P as i clearly had a problem that canesten wasn't curing.
In my frustration is shouted 'last week i needed it for my fanny, this week i need it for bloody athletes foot!'
The Pharmacist sold me it while the other customers in the shop were like

Some of these are so funny especially the 55 year old PP id’d For half a shandy 😂
Some are absurd- the assessment of the dead patient especially!

The defibrillator one is outrageous and quite disturbing!

PILs came to visit us in the US and we got refused entry to the local bar as MIL didn’t have her ID with her. She was 70 and looked like a picture book granny.

DS and I always had to get out of the pool at ten minutes to the hour as it was “adult swim only”, despite always being the only people at the pool (although I can see why a teenage lifeguard would be a stickler for the rules).

Another well known chemist here as well. A particular member of staff who is not a pharmacist or pharmacy assistant refused to sell me Ibruprofen Lysine as it’s a powerful painkiller don’t you know and I should try less powerful ones first. Didn’t matter that I said I had used it fine for severe period cramps for years and my doctor knew. Also refused travel sickness tablets as I couldn’t tell them if I was allergic to the active ingredient in it because I hadn’t tried them before and so didn’t know the active ingredient in them. Also refused to sell me canestan unless I told them why I needed it. When I asked to speak to the manager about them I got a sarky response that they are required by law to ask about all medications. When I pointed out that simply wasn’t true and did the member off staff actually have any pharmacy training the manager walked off. Just a cashier on a power trip.

I have posted about this on MN before, but am sharing again because it tickles me.

I applied for a job using the name I use at work, which is not my legal name. This is very common in my field.

Job offer people said sorry, unless I could produce a passport or other ID document with my legal name, I couldn't have the job. Absolutely no room to negotiate.

I looked into the rules for changing my name on my passport, and found I would need a deed poll and supporting evidence, and for various reasons I couldn't give any of the supporting evidence they needed ... except a job offer letter from the very same people who were insisting I needed to prove my ID. Desperately, I asked the passport office if a job offer letter written to me under that name would do. They said fine.

Went back to the original job offer people, and said literally the only way I could find to give them an ID document in my work name was to use their own job offer letter to me, to prove my identity to the passport office. Wasn't this a bit absurd, and could they perhaps consider just letting me have the job now?

Computer says no. They must have ID proof I am who I say I am.

They didn't even seem to realise how totally absurd it was.

No, they genuinely wanted me to do that.

I'm not blaming the chemist as I'm sure they have a script to follow, but my husband and I had a chuckle when I sent him to buy me a thrush pessary - chemist asked him: "Is it for your own use?"

I had the pharmacy at Tesco try to tell me that the iron tablets I needed for my anaemia during periods was on the shelf. Me: No it isn't, those aren't high enough dosage.
Her: I can't sell you any without a prescription.
Me: Yes you can, I buy some here every few months.
Her: I've run out.
She didn't even pretend to look. Liar.

I had a similar one to @jackparlabane I’d bought my son what I thought was an open return to see his dad. It was about 30p more expensive than usual but I thought maybe the prices had increased. It turned out that i’d bought a ticket for a specific train and he got the right one there but the wrong one home. I had to buy another single ticket plus pay a £20 penalty fare. They were even threatening the British Transport Police at one point. I told the jobsworth on the phone (son called me from the train) that the company hadn’t lost out in the slightest and had actually gained 30p but no, that mistake cost me £35
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