Hello people and welcome, My name is Tash and I welcome you to a new lesson.
Thanks for clicking, the other day I was travelling to work and a friend of mine, whom I met after
a long long time happened to sit just right next to me and she started asking me about
my job, because she knew that I had just taken up a new job and she started enquiring about
my new workplace.
While I was talking to her, I started explaining to her this is how I work, this is my boss,
these are my colleagues and just realized- that often when we meet people -- so many
times, they ask us about what we are doing and what do we do in our day-to-day work or
how do we commute to work, or things like that and we have explain to them.
Have you ever been in a situation where you are at a loss of words or you do not put your
vocabulary in the right place.
So, today I Tash, I'm going to help you with the workplace phrases because I have so many
times heard people, they just love to talk, they want to tell you about everything they
are doing, but trust me they do not know how to tell it to you okay.
Let's have a look at these phrases which are going to help you next time to explain to
somebody what your work or workplace is like.
Okay, so let's get started.
The first phrase says ‘ This job is too stressed out/stressful'.
So why have I put a slash here and have written two different words.
There are people who say this - this job or my job is too stressed out, too stressed out,
no, too stressed out is not the right vocabulary you would use over here, the right word would
be - this job is too stressful.
Okay, and why is it stressful, it's your new job, you have just joined this place, however
you are just not liking it, okay it's not what you expected it to be and it's just getting
too much, it’s too pressurizing, too much of workload and that is why you are telling
someone - this job is too stressful.
Okay, stressed out is definitely a correct word, but it is not fitting in this context,
where could you use the word stressed out?
You could say -- oh!
I'm too stressed out today.
Or you know what -- you are stressing me out right now, what does that mean, it means that
somebody is putting so much of pressure on you right now, that you just can't think correctly,
you can’t think rationally, you are just getting freaked out or stressed out, okay.
The next one says -- There is a lot of work that I can handle/deal.
Over here what you think is the right word?
Here the right word would be- there is a lot of work but I can handle, okay there's a lot
of work at my workplace but I think I'm capable enough of handling it okay, over here we cannot
say that I can deal when you say I can deal it sounds like an incomplete sentence because
you can deal with what?
Okay so you can say that there is a lot of work but I can handle my work.
I can....
I am capable enough of handling it.
However if you want to use the word deal -- you can still say ‘ There is a lot of work but
I think I can deal with it.
Okay, you have to add something after deal because otherwise this is going to sound like
an incomplete sentence.
So you'd say - I can deal ... if you want to use the word deal ... deal with it.
That makes your sentence complete.
The next one says -- I was hired/hiring last month.
When you were being hired at a place, or you join the new place okay and you're telling
somebody is that you have joined work last month there is another way to say that -- that
would be -- I was hired last month.
Okay over here the word hiring does not fit, when do you think the word hiring fits?
And of course in the grammatical term hiring means it's the verb form of hire or hired
-- it is a process where your hiring someone I am an HR of a company and I'm just sitting,
I am in the middle of an interview and I am in the process of hiring someone.
That's what I would say hiring.
However in this context you would say -- I was hired last month.
Okay, the next one says -- They fired/failed two of my co-workers.
Now when you see the word fired and failed, and you think it makes sense over here?
No, it does not.
Because they're firing your, and failing you are two different things.
Let's say -- they fired, let's ignore the word failed for a minute . They fired two
of my co-workers.
So, what is the person trying to tell you over here?
Over here the person is trying to tell you that – two of his co-workers were asked
to resign last month, were asked to leave their job last month.
Okay however if you want to use the word failed, the sentence could be like -- you would say
-- I failed my …… I failed my boss last month.
Would you say, what you mean by saying that- your boss was expecting something from you
and you did not do it that way and that is why you're using the word failed or failing
okay.
You fail to do something that were supposed to do.
Okay, the next one says -- I work at/in sales.
Let’s say somebody is asking you about the Department that you're working in at work.
So how do you tell him or her in which department you're working.
I work in sales, can you say at sales, no that's wrong English,here you need to use
the prepositions in and not at.
Of course we know that at and in our prepositions, right?
So here we say -- I worked in sales and not at sales.
Of course at is a preposition, it is showing you maybe, time or place depending on the
context of the sentence however if you want to tell somebody which department you're working
in you will tell them -- I am working in sales.
Let's take an example, if the person is asking you -- where is your office located?
Or where is your office?
Then you'd say -- you know, I worked at so and so place which is located in so and so
place.
So, whenever you're giving directions with the help of prepositions you have to be very
careful and you have to be very particular about which word you are using where.
Okay, let me use at for you in a sentence also -- if your friend is telling you to meet
him, let's say near the lake and which is by the play zone okay let's say it's a play
park where he wants you to meet him or her and then he would say -- can you meet me at
the play park?
So, can you meet me at, over here I'm using a preposition at, at the play park.
Okay right?
so these were a few workplace phrases which you should be using in your conversation when
you're talking to people explaining to them what is your work all about or how do you
feel at work.
Of course these are not all now let's have a look at the other five phrases that is workplace
phrases.
So friends now let's have a look at the next five workplace phrases.
My commute…. let's say someone is asking you how you travel to work, or how far do
you travel, or how much do you travel.
So, how do you explain it to them - My commute/communion isn't so bad, so which is the mistake here?
Yes, we do not require this word here, it is -- my commute isn't so bad.
So what does commute mean?
Commute means, the time you take to travel to your job or your workplace from your home
okay.
So, my commute…..
it's basically the way you commute, you travel okay you're travelling that you're talking
about here.
My commute isn't so bad.
So here the word commute fits.
The next one says, now let's say somebody is asking you- During your lunch break you
go out to eat?
Or you catch up with some friends for lunch?
or you carry lunch from home?
So, how do you explain it to them?
You tell them- I usually don't eat in the lunch room or the lunch zone, which one do
you think is right?
Yes, right one is lunch room - I usually don't eat in the lunch room.
Now of course you know what a lunch room is, right?
Lunch room is probably a place in any office which is just there for employees to come
and have or grab their lunch, right?
So, it can’t be, it can't be called a lunch zone.
What is basically a lunch zone?
Like you have a play zone for the kids, that is called a zone, while and, the word zone
means like a play area or a particular area which is there in a particular place.
However, when you're talking about the lunch room or place where you can have lunch, it
would be called lunchroom.
Okay, next you have a …. You have a .. sports theme, okay you have a sports theme tomorrow
at the office, or this workshop is going on in the office going on and to have a dress
code, you have to come typically dressed in the code that's given to you okay and someone
is asking you-what is the dress code for tomorrow?
And what you tell them, you tell them -the dress code, do you say cut?
No, you would say-the dress code for tomorrow or the dress code is casual for tomorrow okay.
It's very simple to put it just in the right vocabulary.
The next one is , ah… you are very stressed out, like you’ve just seen, so much of stress
is going on, you don’t wanna do this work anymore, you are talking to your friend and
telling him that – I thinking about quitting or stopping my job.
So, which one , it is this okay.
You just can’t stop you job.
What?
Is it a bus or a rikshaw, you just can’t stop you job, right?
You have to quit it.
Someone has hired you, you are been paid, you are been paid to that work, you just can’t
stop your work.
You just can’t say – I am stopping my job.
No, It is – I am thinking about quitting my job.
When I say quitting, it means, it’s a huge process you have to talk to your boss, you
have to go through the HR, put down your papers…
blah blah blah blah blah….. right?
So, I am thinking of quitting my job.
The next one says – The company has a reputation for treating their employees/ employers well.
Now who is an employee?
An employee is the person who the company hires or your staff – the people who work
in a company basically.
And who is an employer?
An employer is the one who hires the employees to work for them.
Now, if you’re talking about your company to someone and you tell them, what kind of
reputation your company hold?
How do you tell it to them?
The company has a reputation for treating their employees well.
In this context the word employer will not fit.
Right?
So, the company has a reputation for treating their employees well.
Right?
So, friends we have had a look at workplace phrases, I’m sure you have come across this
situation before where, A stranger or someone of course whom you know is asking you about
your workplace and you’re fumbling with words, you definitely have it at the back
of your mind but you do not know how to put them in words, okay.
So, I’m sure that these few phrases are gonna help you the next time to explain and
tell somebody in a better way what you think about your workplace.
I hope this video is gonna help you, this lesson is gonna help you.
So, keep watching and keep learning.
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