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Tips for Your Bosses

  • Never give me work in the morning. Always wait until 4:00pm and then bring it to me The challenge of a deadline is refreshing

  • If it's really a ``rush job'', run in and interrupt me every 10minutes to inquire how it's going That helps. Or even better, hover behind me, advising me at every keystroke

  • Always leave without telling anyone where you're going It gives me a chance to be creative when someone asks where you are

  • Wait until my yearly review and THEN tell me what my goals SHOULD have been Give me a mediocre performance rating with a cost of living increase I'm not here for the money anyway

  • If you give me more than one job to do, don't tell me which is the priority I like being a psychic

  • Do your best to keep me late. I adore this office and really have nowhere to go or anything to do I have no life beyond work.

  • If a job I do pleases you, keep it a secret If that gets out, it could mean a promotion

  • If you don't like my work, tell everyone I like my name to be popular in conversations I was born to be whipped.

  • If you have special instructions for a job, don't write them down In fact, save them until the job is almost done No use confusing me with useful information

  • Never introduce me to the people you're with. I have no right to know anything. In the corporate food chain, I am plankton When you refer to them later, my shrewd deductions will identify them

  • Tell me all your little problems. No one else has any and it's nice to know someone is less fortunate I especially like the story about having to pay so much taxes on the bonus check you get

Vocabulary Help

  • deadline: prazo
  • rush job: trabalho urgente
  • keystroke: tecla digitada
  • whipped: chicoteado, maltratado
  • introduce: apresentar
  • food chain: cadeia alimentar
  • shrewd: inteligente, sagaz


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