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]
paternity/maternity/sick leave
a period of paid absence from work, in Britain currently six months, to which a woman is legally entitled during the months immediately before and after childbirth
hit a glass ceiling
the attitudes and traditions which sometimes prevent women, or people from ethnic or religious minorities, from getting the most important jobs
side hustle
A side hustle is a job or paid activity that you do in addition to your main job. ex: my buddy has a side hustle making a couple of hundred dollars a month doing photo shoots.
entitlement
An entitlement to something is the right to have it or do it. Derecho. también es subsidio. What’s your holiday entitlement?
schedule
A schedule is a plan that gives a list of events or tasks and the times at which each one should happen or be done. /skedul/. Programa.
eager ( adj), eagerness ( noun)
very keen to do something or have something. /entusiasmo como nombre.
Troubleshoot
Identificar y encontrar la solución
Draw up
Redactar
Input
Introduir
Network
Find contacts creating a net.
Oversee
Supervisar
Entertain
Offer them food and drinks. Have as guests. keep guests amused.
Come up with the stratedy
Idear. Devise, invent
Liase ./leis/
Communicate and maintain the contact
Place an ad
Poner un anuncio
suck up to someone
The man sucks up to his boss because he wants a raise.
lead
in business: potential customer.
stays on budget
mantenerse dentro del presupuesto
voluntary redundancy
baja voluntaria
unions
sindicatos
the last straw
la gota que colmó el vaso
quack
matasanos. The doctor selling diet pills on TV was found to be a quack.
