yeah fine all right sure so i'll get
back to you on this later right i have a
class right now okay take care bye bye
yeah
oh
hi guys
my name is michelle and i was actually
having a conversation with my friend we
were toying with the idea of starting a
new company but you know these days it's
a jungle out there
ah
oh
not this jungle but the jungle of the
competitive business world and if you
want to stand out then you surely need
to master some workplace slang and
idioms and for that stay tuned and learn
with me
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so guys before we start this lesson i
want you to quickly jot down what i'm
going to share with you uh jot down
what's jot down jot down means to
quickly write down something
to write down something
so it often happens that you're at work
and you quickly need to write down
something so you should always keep a
paper and a pen handy at work and also
when you're watching my lessons because
you're going to have a lot to jot down
all right so this lesson is essentially
about my friend ricky yeah it's also
about workplace idioms but it's also
about my friend ricky i want to tell you
what happened with him so since last
week he's been knocking on the doors uh
well that means that he's looking for
employment
right so my friend has been knocking on
the doors which means he's been looking
for employment apparently because he's
jobless
why is he jobless what happened with him
so
ricky ricky's company the previous
company that he was working with the xyz
company sorry i can't share the name so
that company was experiencing a downfall
and and they started laying off their
employees which means
that they started terminating their
employees they put them out of the
organization and they told them we don't
need you anymore but why possibly
because the company was you know not
able to afford their salary
right so they started laying off
employees which means
terminating employees
right so when the company started
deciding to lay off employees they had
this list of
their employees who were never on time
and the one on the top of the list was
my friend ricky because he was late to
work 20 times in a month okay
so obviously when they had to let some
people go ricky was on the top of the
list so they had to let him go as you
can see here this means that they asked
him to leave the company
to ask someone to leave
yeah and as i told you in the beginning
of the lesson that it's a jungle out
there which means that
it's a competitive business world and
it's very hard to bag a job to get a job
so that's why he's been knocking on the
doors and now you know it so it's a
jungle out there refers to a competitive
business world where it's very hard to
find a job like if you lose something in
a jungle you surely can't find it the
same way if you lose a job these days
it's very hard to find it
all right
so top stop
i want to wipe away my friend ricky's
tears so very recently i had heard that
there was a job opening in my own
company right
and ricky was the first person that i
told us to because he had been knocking
on the doors for a very long time so job
job opening means an available position
in the company
an available position in the company
right
so as soon as i heard that there was a
job opening in my company immediately i
rigged up i ringed up my friend ricky
and i told him hey buddy there's a job
opening in my company would you like to
apply and obviously he was just seeking
for a job so he quickly applied okay
and he told me that please keep me in
the loop about any update for that
position so in the loop means keep me
informed so he wants to be updated and
informed that if someone else has been
hired for that position or anything like
that
so in the loop means
to keep someone informed
all right there's also an opposite for
this and that is out of the loop
which means to not keep someone informed
right so whenever you're at your
workplace you would surely like to be
kept in the loop about any new
formations or any new update
all right now coming back to ricky so he
will he applied for this position all
right for the new job opening and
finally he was called for the interview
hooray yes
but as my friend ricky is known for
for which he was laid off and for which
his company let him go he was again late
and he could not make it in to the
interview at the correct time
so which means that he was late
and make it in means to arrive at office
or at home or anywhere
to arrive somewhere in time
right so my poor friend ricky could not
make it in and he was late
so obviously
i had suggested him this job opening and
he was late so i quickly asked him i
said what happened why couldn't you make
it in
and he told me that he was thoroughly
prepared for the interview but he forgot
his briefcase at home all right and then
he was stuck in the elevator and not
only that he had also had a flat tire
when he was coming to the company so
apparently he said it's murphy's law
murphy's law means that anything that
has to go wrong will go wrong
anything
that has to go wrong
will go
wrong
so even when he had completely prepared
for the interview and he was really
hoping to get that job he couldn't make
it in because of murphy's law which
means that he lost his uh you know he
missed his briefcase he kept it he left
it at home
and then he got stuck in the elevator
whatever had to happen happened right
in response i told him be it murphy's
law or whatever my friend ricky is going
to be very hard for you to make a buck
now
like this to make a buck means to earn a
living for yourself
which means to earn for your survival to
pay your utility bills and all the money
that you need all right so i told my
friend it's going to be very hard for
you to make a buck
it's not only make a buck you can also
say to make an honest
buck all right now because we are saying
honest this means something dishonest
was happening for sure so in this case
it means that someone was earning money
illegally and now they started earning
money legally
when that happens for example there was
a person who was a criminal all right
maybe that person was logged up and then
he got out of prison and started making
some honest bucks which means now he's
earning money legally so
to make an honest buck
or to make honest bucks
so for my friend ricky it's going to be
very hard to make a bug but for many of
you you might already be making big
bucks
now big buck means to earn a lot of
money if you are making big bucks then
please help my friend ricky because he's
in great need of help
to make big bucks means to earn a lot of
money
right so these are the workplace idioms
slangs that we have learned today as you
can see to jot something down means to
write something
to knock on the doors means to look for
a job like my friend ricky to lay off
means when the company is terminating
employees and asking them to leave the
company because they are not able to
afford their salary
the next one that we have is to let
someone go which means to ask a person
to leave the company
all right then it's a jungle out there
as i told you it's a very competitive
business world
a job opening is when there's an
available position in a company and the
next one is to be in the loop means to
keep someone informed about any new
updates
the next one that we have is to make it
in which means to arrive somewhere very
well on time okay
the next one is murphy's law which means
anything that has to go wrong will go
wrong
all right and the last one is to make a
buck thank you so much for having me
with you i had a great time teaching you
this lesson i hope you had great fun as
well i'll come back soon again till then
you take care bye bye