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