At Work Flashcards
Nine to five-job
A nine-to-five job is one that you do during normal office hours, for example, a job in a factory or an office.
Clock in/ out
When you clock in at work, you arrive there or put a special card into a device to show what time you arrived.
Heavy workload
The workload of a person or organization is the amount of work that has to be done by them.
Stuck behind a desk
You can use it to refer to someone who spends a lot of time sitting at a desk, usually in an office environment, if they feel like they have no other choice. For example: “After spending years stuck behind a desk, Bob decided to quit his job and follow his passion for travel.”.
I am on flexi-time
it is a system that allows employees to vary the time that they start or finish work, provided that an agreed total number of hours are spent at work.
Stuck in a rut
Bloqueados
day shift/ back shift /Night shift
a group of workers who work a shift during the day/afternoon/night in an industry or the period worked.
Dead-end job
Jobs with no prospects of promotion
Knock off
Plegar
The hours
Horari de feina
Red tape
You refer to official rules and procedures as red tape when they seem unnecessary and cause delay.
The little money that was available was tied up in bureaucratic red tape.
You Fit the bill
You are suitable for a particular job or purpose
rush/run someone off their feet
to cause someone to be very busy. Be extremely busy
be raring to go
If you say that you are raring to go, you mean that you are very eager to start doing something. ( exciting to start).
After a good night’s sleep, Paul said he was raring to go.
show someone the ropes
If you show someone the ropes, you show them how to do a particular job or task.
[informal]
