day 70promotions and posts
unit 11 · work & businesspromotions and posts
Talk about posts, promotions, staff and the history of companies, and thank or apologise politely with ～ところを (when you are busy, on your day off).
today’s words
- 社宅 しゃたく · company housing
- 就業 しゅうぎょう · employment; working (hours, rules)
- 主催 しゅさい · organising, sponsoring (an event)
- 出社 しゅっしゃ · going in to the office
- 出世 しゅっせ · getting on in the world, promotion
- 主任 しゅにん · chief, senior staff (lowest managerial post)
- 昇進 しょうしん · promotion
- 職員 しょくいん · staff member (of a school or public office)
- 職務 しょくむ · (official) duties
- 所属 しょぞく · belonging to (a team, department)
- 庶務 しょむ · general affairs (office admin)
- 私用 しよう · private use, personal business
- 使用人 しようにん · servant, employee (old-fashioned)
- 指令 しれい · order, command (from above)
- 事業 じぎょう · business, enterprise, project
- 辞職 じしょく · resignation (from a post)
- 実業家 じつぎょうか · businessman, industrialist
- 従業員 じゅうぎょういん · employee, worker
- 従事 じゅうじ · being engaged in (work)
- 人材 じんざい · talented people, human resources
- 責務 せきむ · duty, responsibility
- 設立 せつりつ · establishment, founding
- 選考 せんこう · selection, screening
- 総会 そうかい · general meeting
- 創立 そうりつ · founding (of a school, an organisation)
- 待遇 たいぐう · treatment; pay and conditions
- 退職 たいしょく · leaving a job, retirement
sentences
- お忙しいところを、ありがとうございます。 · Thank you for taking the time when you're so busy.
- お休みのところを、お電話してすみません。 · I'm sorry to phone you on your day off.
- 危ないところを、通りかかった人に助けられた。 · Someone passing by saved me just in time.
- 庶務の主任が、昇進して課長になった。 · The chief of general affairs was promoted to section chief.
- 就業時間中に、私用の電話をしてはいけない。 · You mustn't make personal calls during working hours.