Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to scold, to tell off.

1685		Autobiog. of Sir J. Bramston n.p.: The king had talked earnestly to the duke and jobed him soe that the teares stood in his eyes [F&H].
1721, 1726		N. Amhurst Terræ-Filius (2004) No. I 81: Methinks it could not do any great hurt to the universities, if the old fellows were to be jobed at least once in four or five years for their irregularities.
1785		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Jobe, to reprove or reprehend.
1795		Gent.’s Mag. Dec. n.p.: In consequence of an intimation from the tutor relative to his irregularities, his father came from the country to jobe him.
1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn) n.p.: To Job. To reprove or reprehend.
1803		‘A Pembrochian’ Gradus ad Cantabrigiam 76: to jobe; to repove, to reprimand.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1796].
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1840		T. Haliburton Clockmaker III 201: I am punished enough, anyhow; spare me, for I am as weak as a child, and can’t stand Jobeing.
1856		B.H. Hall College Words (rev. edn) 270: jobe. To reprove; to reprimand.
1908		Bulletin (Sydney) 2 July 10/1: ‘Afraid!’ Hast ever ‘jobbed’ a cook, / And two days later found her fighting drunk, / Waving a meat-axe? Nay? If so, you’d learn / That in that grisly case a hurried ‘bunk’ / From home were needful – and a slow return.