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2012年ESL之商务英语 16 Losing Employees to Other Companies
Losing Employees to Other Companies Diego: Thats three in six months! Natalie: Whats three in six months? Diego: Thats three of this companys employees who have been hired away by other companies. First, there was Lamar. I wasnt surprised that headhu
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2012年ESL之商务英语 17 Running a Pilot Program
Running a Pilot Program Rosalind: How is the pilot program coming along? Jimmy: Well be ready to launch it in another month, but I have some serious reservations. Rosalind: Like what? Jimmy: We havent worked out all of the bugs yet and we might come
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2012年ESL之商务英语 18 Performing Poorly at Work
Performing Poorly at Work Cora: Whats up with Rob? He hasnt been himself lately. Doug: Youve noticed, too, huh? Cora: Yeah, hes been missing work and letting things slip through the cracks. Ive been cutting him some slack and filling in for him, but
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2012年ESL之商务英语 19 Grooming a Successor
Grooming a Successor Aisha: Its only a matter of time before I retire and hand over the reins to someone else. Javier: That wont happen for years. Aisha: Itll happen sooner than you think. Ive given a lot of thought to the person I want to fill my sh
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2012年ESL之商务英语 20 Important Business Contacts
Important Business Contacts Kelly: What we need are a few people in the industry to talk up our new company. John: Im on top of that. Im really well connected, as you know, and Ive already put in a few calls to a few of the movers and shakers in our
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2012年ESL之商务英语 21 Creating an Online Store
Creating an Online Store Kay: Id say were well on our way to establishing our new online store. Greg: I cant wait for this to get off the ground. Orders will pour in and well make money hand over fist. Kay: Lets not get ahead of ourselves. Lets see w
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2012年ESL之商务英语 22 Working Shifts
Working Shifts Lisette: Youre the new kid on the block, arent you? Danny: Yeah, its my first day. Lisette: Im Lisette. Danny: Im Danny. Nice to meet you. Lisette: Youre lucky to be starting on the day shift. When I started working here umpteen years
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2012年ESL之商务英语 23 Translating a Document
Translating a Document Francine: Do you know the word in Mcquish for partnership? Aziz: No, I dont speak Mcquish. What are you doing? Francine: Jim gave me this letter and this document to translate into Mcquish because I speak a little of it, but ev
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2012年ESL之商务英语 24 Dealing With Corrupt Officials
Dealing With Corrupt Officials Vera: I cant believe that Stan has been arrested. I know that he wasnt always on the up-and-up, but hes being accused of influence peddling and taking bribes. Keigo: Stan has been getting kickbacks for years. Everybody
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2012年ESL之商务英语 25 An Unscrupulous Partner
An Unscrupulous Partner My friend Charles convinced me to go into business with him about a year ago. I wish I had had the benefit of hindsight to say no. I was too trusting and that was my downfall. At first, everything was fine. We worked our butts
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2012年ESL之商务英语 26 Working in a Factory
Working in a Factory Tony: The plant manager says that youre the new kid. Amber: Yes, its my first day. Tony: All right, youll be a line worker like the rest of us. Heres your workstation. What you have to remember is that output and productivity are
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2012年ESL之商务英语 27 Training Salespeople
Training Salespeople Our company brought in a consultant to do sales training for our store. For some reason, wed been getting some complaints from customers. Consultant: My job in this training is to help your store improve its customer satisfaction
