Vocabulario Valme

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MOTIVATION, WORK

VOCABULARY

- Monotonous / repetitive / tedious / mechanical – job - Line manager / managee


- Antisocial - job - Trainer / trainee
- Challenging / demanding - job - Head of depart / boss
- Rewarding / motivating - job - Staff/employer / employe
- Doing enjoyable / varied - work / stg. Rewarding - Staff turnover
- Having friendly / supportive - colleagues - Run your own company
- Having a good boss or manager - Voluntary work / shift work
- Having a good work-life balance - Working fixed hours / flexi-time
- Being overworked / underpaid / work-obsessed - Part-time / full-time, nine-to-five / dead-end job
- Being part of a successful team - Short term / long term - job / contract
- Being stuck behind a desk / in a rut - To be self-employed
- Stimulating working environment - unemployed
- Relaxing atmosphere - Retire / retired / retirement
- To have your achievements recognized - To be on the dole / financial assistance

- Timetable / shift - Salary/ wages / bonus / plus / perks/ benefits


- Staff turnover - Career /post /position/ profession
- Paperwork - Skills / training / qualifications
- Security / safety – job - Prospects / opportunities
- unpaid - Earn a competitive salary

- In a sense
- Comfort zone

PHRASAL VERBS IDIOMS AND EXPRESSIONS

- To be sacked / made redundant / to be fire from - To stick to your guns


- To deal with - To grit your teeth
- To be in charge of / responsible for - To speak your mind
- To be on maternity leave / on a sick leave - To cross your mind
- Put forward / to get proposed - Mind your own business
- To get work experience - To be in two minds about sth
- Be out of work / be off work - To know your own mind
- Get a rise
- Get promoted - Get the axe (lose the work)
- Meet a deadline - Back-room boys (important work in the shadow)
- Make a difference - Cream of the crop (the best)
- Heavy workload - Put out to pasture (forced to retire)
- To fill sb in on / about sth
- To catch up with (with sb)

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