Routine work– commonplace tasks, chores, or duties that must be done regularly or at specified intervals
1. Do you enjoy doing your job?
2. How much routine work do you have?
3. How many bosses do you have?
Peter is doing his work when his boss approaches him with a very important question!
Answer the questions from the video
- What mistake did Peter make? And why?
- What’s Bill going to do about that?
- How would you react if you were in Peter’s shoes?
Read the following phrases uninterrupted and as smoothly as possible.
- Sort of a problem
- Sorry about that
- Did you see the memo?
- I’ve got the memo
BILL Hello, Peter. What’s happening? Uh… we have sort of a problem here. Yeah. You apparently didn’t put one of the new coversheets on your TPS reports.
PETER Oh, yeah. I’m sorry about that. I, I forgot.
BILL MMMM..YEAH. YOU SEE, WE’RE PUTTING THE COVERSHEETS ON ALL TPS REPORTS. NOW BEFORE THEY GO OUT. DID YOU SEE THE MEMO ABOUT THIS?
PETER Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I’ve got the memo right here, but, uh, uh, I just forgot. But, uh, it’s not shipping out until tomorrow, so there’s no problem.
BILL Yeah. If you could just go ahead and make sure you do that from now on, that will be great. And Uh, I’ll go ahead and make sure you get another copy of that memo Mmmm, Ok?
PETER Yeah, yeah, I’ve got the memo, I’ve got –
DOM Hello, Peter. What’s happening? We need to talk about your TPS reports.
PETER Yeah. The coversheet. I know, I know. Uh, Bill talked to me about it.
DOM Yeah. Uh, did you get that memo?
PETER Yeah. I got the memo. And I understand the policy. The problem is, I just forgot this time. And I’ve already taken care of it so it’s not a problem anymore.
DOM Yeah. It’s just that we’re putting new coversheets on all the TPS reports before now before they go out now. So I’d really appreciate it if you could just remember to do that from now on. That’d be great.
2. Job evaluation
The Bobs interview the employees to figure out who does what at work by asking simple work-related questions.