Your company recently laid off 15% of the employees. You're running a meeting with your staff to talk about how to deal with the layoffs. After starting the meeting, you begin by saying:
As you're all aware, we've been forced to make significant cutbacks.
Your former employee is applying for a new job and has asked you to write a letter of recommendation. In your letter, you're describing a project that she was really helpful with. You have described how successful that project was, so now you write:
Our success was largely due to Adele's contributions.
adverb, boss (speaker), employee, job, praise, success, undefined, written English You have given one of your employees a promotion. You're writing an email to everyone in your division of the company to announce this and congratulate him. After describing his accomplishments and strengths, you finish your message with:
Please join me in congratulating him on his new position.
boss (speaker), congratulations, email, employee, formal, job, promotion, set phrase, written English You have given one of your employees a promotion. You're writing an email to everyone in your division of the company to announce this and congratulate him. You start your message:
I'm pleased to announce that Carlos Turner has been promoted to Northeastern Regional Manager.
announcements, boss (speaker), email, formal, job, passive, perfect aspect, promotion, work, written English You're the manager of a group at work, and you want to schedule a meeting. It's important that all of the members of your group come to this meeting. You write an email to the group members, and after describing the meeting you write:
Attendance is required.
attendance, boss (speaker), employee, meeting, work, written English, 日本語サポート You are the director of a division in your company. Last quarter, your company had high sales growth. Now you are leading a meeting and want to thank all the employees. You say:
We really appreciate all of your hard work and effort.
appreciation, boss (speaker), hard work, thanks, 日本語サポート One of the people who works under you came to your office to ask a question. He asked you "Can I ask you something?" You were typing an urgent email and want to finish it, so you answer:
Can you give me just a minute to finish writing this?
boss (speaker), email (topic), gerund, interruption, office, wait, work, 日本語サポート You're checking a PowerPoint presentation that your boss is going to give tomorrow to the entire company. You notice a mistake on one of the pages and you point it out. Your boss is surprised that there was a mistake and happy that you told him about it. He tells you:
Wow, good catch.
You are a manager in a sales department. One of the salespeople that works under you made a mistake with a major client, and now the client is now threatening to cancel their account with your company. You are speaking with the salesperson and want to suggest that you will be able to forgive the mistake if she can convince the client to stay, but that you may have to fire her if they cancel. You say:
For your own sake, I really hope they don't cancel.
boss (speaker), client (topic), idioms, sales, threat, work You were in a meeting at work where you heard about a change in your work schedule. You're talking to an employee who wasn't at the meeting. You want to talk to her about the schedule change, but you're not ready to discuss it yet. You say to her:
Just a heads up - we're going to have to meet soon to discuss a change in the schedule.
