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hey guys welcome back to let's talk this
is me Mira so the other day I met my
friend RIA and I saw her expressions her
face was really nervous and she was
really sad about something so I asked
her hey what happened here what is wrong
with you Andrea said what did we is it
yummy out we are said that she was
called on the carpet by some of the
bigwigs for what for missing her
deadlines oh my gosh now this is getting
serious right they told her that she was
flunky and if she doesn't start pulling
her weight they are gonna do demote her
oh my god - what - a gofer and not just
that guys they are gonna make her work
graveyard - that is really really crazy
and bad okay I heard her and I
completely empathize with her I said to
her RIA
you better get cracking or those slave
drivers are gonna can you for sure and
you will have to pound the pavement
again now I know that we have certain
really interesting words and phrases
right in front of us okay now these
terms are a little different than our
normal language and we are going to
decode all of these but before that guys
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slang business English language that you
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you more about it in detail towards the
end of the lesson right so let's get
cracking these codes and let's just
decode all of this right here first okay
so let's take a look at this
so first what did she say Riya said that
she was called on the carpet now let's
understand what is called in the carpet
it means you've done something wrong
okay
and people have called you on the carpet
my father calls me on the carpet
whenever I do something wrong what did
you understand by this you are called to
be scolded at so let me just write here
okay cold on the red carpet means
someone's going to scold you for
something wrong that you've done in this
case she was talking about her workplace
so she's definitely going to get
lectured or scolded by it's written by
whom by some of the bigwigs now think
about it it's actually a nice phrase you
know the bigwigs can be you
for positive and negative instances and
situations in her case she's calling her
bosses the bigwigs and it's fair right
people who have great power great
responsibility in their offices in
workplace that means she's talking about
her bosses and higher executive managers
right for what they're calling her for
missing her deadlines like I said being
called on the red carpet is no joy it's
usually for something that you have done
wrong right it's for missing her
deadline now we all know we have
deadlines we had deadlines even when we
were in school so she had to complete
certain work now when you talk about
deadlines you're basically talking about
a certain date a certain day or maybe a
certain time before which you must
complete your work right and that's a
deadline so because she did not complete
her work before her given time she was
called on the red carpet savvy moving
further they told her that she was
flunky now what is flunky it's nothing
but being unskilled being unprofessional
okay unskilled or unprofessional and if
she doesn't start pulling her weight now
what does pulling her weight actually
mean guys is it actually meaning to like
pull the body weight and move around no
she's not even that heavy so what does
pulling her weight mean it just means -
- whatever the share of work that
they have given her she's supposed to
start working on it she has to make sure
that she has to understand she cannot be
flunky anymore she cannot fool around
anymore she has to start doing her work
all right here
Oh what are they going to do they are
going to demote her now guys what is
demote demoting something it's the
opposite of promotion now promotion is
just going up the scale this is just
going down the scale so demote her right
to a gofer what is a gofer it means a
person who just runs errands and who is
made to go from one place to another in
the office to do something that is not
at all that important so she would be
asked to go get coffee or give that
paper to someone or submit that but work
off no importance right run to go for me
someone who runs errands right not only
that they're going to make her work
graveyard - now guys what is graveyard
do you know what oh it's a very very
scary place first of all I personally
don't enjoy being around I'm sure none
of you do but a normal working hours are
9:00 to 5:00 yeah acceptable but usually
when you talk about graveyard
don't you imagine like a 12 in the you
know 12 at midnight or two after
midnight which is a scary hour exactly
so late-night graveyard means late night
there you go I said it and these timings
are usually really bad they are post
midnight they could be 12 a.m. to 7:00
a.m. in the morning that's really crazy
guys nobody wants that then I said to
her that you better get cracking now get
cracking or pulling her weight or in the
same way it's just that I mean will
right so get cracking means nothing but
again start
King okay
get to work start working it's one and
the same it's just two different ways to
say the same thing
all those slave drivers
now I - I'm saying the same thing that
she has said sure but in a different way
right the bigwigs she said it in a nice
way and when I talk about slave driver I
talk about mean bosses right mean bosses
bosses who trouble their employees right
I really hope that you don't have mean
bosses around you
well her main bosses are gonna can her
for sure
can is nothing but a short form of
cancel and can you for sure can her for
sure means nothing but fire she would
get fired
that means she get laid off she would
lose her job you guys and you she would
have to pound the pavement again so when
you imagine this phrase you know
pounding some pavement which means
getting back to square one starting to
look for another job okay pounding the
pavement means looking for new job which
is a task in itself okay it's a very
very troublesome task to go through the
whole process all over again and this
was the conversation that took place
between the both of us she shared
certain details which I thought was so
funny yet so serious because they were
about her work
and I gave her my share of advice now as
you can see we have already decoded a
lot of business English language right
here some of them do have the same
meaning but said it in a different way
please make sure that you know these
downs if at all you had a chance to you
them but in the most decent fashion okay
well these were your business English
slang phrases and words for the day like
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that's all for today guys this is me
Meera signing off for the day bye
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