工作
A：Did you get the job?
你得到那份工作了吗？
B：Yes, I’ll be working in the development department.
是的，我将在发展部工作。
A：Did you meet your boss?
你见过老板了吗？
B：Just briefly. She seemed nice.
只是简单地见了一面。她看上去不错。
A：Will you have to work overtime?
你需要加班吗？
B：Sometimes. They said I should expect to work overtime once or twice a month.
有时需要，他们说我一个月可能会加一俩次班。
A：Is it paid or unpaid?
有加班费吗？
B：It’s unpaid, but I can then take an extra day off. So, if I work an extra 8 hours on a Thursday night, I can take Friday off.
没有。但是我可以调休一天，也就是说，如果我周四晚上多工作了八个小时，周五就可以休息一天。
A：That’s alright. It might be tiring, but then you can at least have a three-day holiday.
那还好，可能会比较疲劳，但之后就可以享受至少三天的假期了。
B：I think it’s great.
我觉得这样也挺好的。
A：How about your daily office hours?
你白天的工作时间是怎样的？
B：It’s just a 9-5 job, with a 30 minute lunch break.
朝九晚五，中午有30 分钟的午休时间。
A：Did you meet your other colleagues?
你见过其他同事了吗？
B：I met the people from my department. They all seemed nice.
见过我这个部门的了，他们看上去都很好。
A：Do you have an office?
你有自己的办公室吗？
B：Not yet. For now, I have to sit in a cubicle.
还没有，现在只能坐在格子间里。
A：How do you feel about that?
感觉怎么样？
B：I’m not ecstatic about it, but if nothing else, it will motivate me to work harder so I can get an office!
不是太满意，但是如果没有其它选择，这倒可以激励我努力工作，那样就能有自己的办公室了。
A：You’re always looking on the bright side of things!
你总是看到事物好的一面。
1. 加班：work permit 工作证 | work overtime 加班 | holiday rotation 节假日轮流值班
2. 超时工作：word processing 文字处理 | work overtime 超时工作 | work shifts 轮班
3. 逾时工作：work outside normal working hours 在正常工作时间以外工作 | work overtime 逾时工作 | work place 工作场所;工作岗位
4. 超时工作,加班：work out 想出,制定出;训练,锻炼;产生...结果 | work overtime 超时工作,加班 | worth the time and trouble 值得花费时间和精力
1. The organization said salaries of workers who refuse to work overtime are cut by 100 yuan to 200 yuan for each absence.
2. Businesses invent numerous tricks to cheat their employees out of the standard of minimum salary, resulting in long overtime work or other kind of labour abuses.
3. A foreman in Ruicheng kiln was sentenced to three years for hiring and forcing a child laborer to work overtime without pay.
4. Official data show that working overtime is common in Hong Kong because employees have to work an average of 48 to 54 hours per week.
5. The Labor Contract Law contains a few new rules such as overtime work must be paid and internship should not last more than six months.
6. Some employers even hold out their pay to force them work overtime.
7. They have to work overtime if they are unable to finish the day's task on time.
8. To cope with the heavy workload, the HA has introduced a special scheme to encourage doctors and nurses to work overtime.
9. They usually work overtime, with low pay and have hardly any health insurance.
10. Apart from saying they are underpaid, the workers complained they are required to work heavy overtime.