21 Jul
2006
21 Jul
'06
3:27 p.m.
On 7/21/2006 at 12:30 AM ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
Yesm, I was being polite. We have various terms for the darn jobsworths
[1] over here too...
[1[ A common UK expression for what the Jargon File would call a Droid.
It comes form "It's more than my job's worth to do...", in other words
it
means somebody who won't bend rules even when it's obvious to somebody
who has more than 2 working braincells that the rules don't apply...
-tony
So presumably those people who install cables (we
call them
'electricians' over here normally) don't actually have to know the
behaviour of electricity.
We call them "card-carrying union members" here. :)