The Firm

Avery: You will be expected to be in the office by nine each morning. The secretaries are to be there at eight-thirty. Nine to five, but no one works so.

Mitch: And want about you?

Avery: Personally I am in the office by eight, and seldom leave before six. I can bill twelve hours each day, regardless of how much hours I actually work. I work at three hundred an hour, for fifty weeks. Nine hundred thousand dollars in billable time! That is my goal.

The firm doesn’t care if you come in at 6 a.m. or 9 a.m. as long as the work is done.

Mitch: What time are the doors unlocked?

Avery: Everyone has a key, so you can come and go as you please. Security is tight, but the guards are accustomed to workaholics.

Mitch: I was told some stories about the work habits in the firm that seemed to me legendary.

Avery: Not a bit! They are real. Victor Milligan, in his younger days, worked sixteen hours a day, seven days a week, until he made partner. Then he quit working on Sundays. He had a heart attack and gave up Saturdays. His doctor put him on ten-hour day, five days a week, and he hasn’t been happy since.

Marty Kozinski is a man who wants to nave breakfast with the kids. He comes in at nine and leaves at midnight.

Nathan Locke claims he can’t work well after the secretaries arrive, so he comes in at six. It will be a disgrace to start later.

Here is a man sixty one years old, worth ten million, and works from six in the morning till eight at night five days a week and then a half day on Saturday. If he retired, he’d die.

Nobody punches a clock. Come and go as you please. Just get the work done.

Выпишите из текста эквиваленты слов и выражений.

1.тебя будут ожидать;

2.ни один так не работает;

3.я редко ухожу раньше шести;

4.отмечать в табеле восемь часов каждый день;

5.за три сотни в час;

6.вот моя цель;

7.во сколько открывают двери?;

8.приходи и уходи как тебе удобно;

9.привыкать;

10.трудовые привычки;

11.стать партнером;

12.перестать работать по воскресеньям;

13.он стоит пять миллионов;

14.я ушел на отдых;

15.никто не отмечается по часам;

16.просто сделай работу.

Соответствуют ли данные утверждения содержанию текста? Если соответствуют, поставьте T (true), если не соответствуют, поставьте F (false) (ставьте знак после предложения).

1. Mitch is expected to be at work at 8 a.m. exactly.

2. Mitch’s working day will last 8 hours.

3. Avery actually works twelve hours.

4. Avery’s goal is to have breakfast with kids.

5. Everyone in the firm has a key because they have no guards at all.

6. Workaholics are rather unusual in the firm.

7. Never be late and leave your workplace in time.

Контрольная 5 (для всех специальностей)

Success Story

I met Richard about ten years ago when I came to South America to work for Pan American Company. Richard Worked for the same company. He was a pleasant man of twenty two who easily made friends with people, and I liked him.

Soon after I’d been employed, Pan American Co signed a contract for the construction of a plant. I was making most of calculations and Richard only helped me because he was less experienced.

In January a few representatives of the customer together with Mr. Prosset, the President of PAC, arrived from the USA. The next day our manager invited them to observe the construction site. They decided to arrive there by train. The manager asked me and Richard to pick up Mr. Prosset at the hotel and bring him to the station.

On the way Mr.Prosset was asking me a lot of questions and I often answered: “I’m afraid, sir, I don’t know. We haven’t made any calculations on that...”

Although I was more experienced I was very much surprised when Rich began to speak: “I did all calculations last night,”- he said, -“just for my pleasure.”

“Oh”- said Mr.Prosset -“That’s very interesting. Well, probably, you could tell me about...”

And Richard could! He seemed to know everything. He answered all the questions Mr.Prosset asked him. When we got to the station Mr.Prosset said good-bye to Richard but not to me. On our way back to the office I told him what I thought of his impudence.

“Your information wasn’t true!” – I said.

“You see, John, if the President of a big company wants to know something why can’t I tell him everything he needs?

“But what will happen if he checks the information?”

“Do you believe he’ll remember what I was telling about? He’s going to remember that PAC has a bright young man, Richard by name, who could give him all necessary information and the other man, John, who couldn’t answer his questions.”

Some time later I read in a newspaper that Richard was a Vice President of a big company. As for me, I’m still doing my ordinary everyday job for Pan American Co.

Найдите в тексте соответствия словам и выражениям и выпишите их.

1. Представители заказчика. 2. Подписали контракт на строительство.

3. Осмотреть стройплощадку. 4. Менее опытный. 5. Проверять информацию. 6. Способный юноша. 7. Вице-президент. 8. Обычная работа.

Отметьте предложения, соответствующие содержанию текста T(true), а не соответствующие знаком F (false).

1. The hero of this story worked for the Bank of America in South Africa.

2. They went to the station be car.

3. Mr. Prosset liked Richard’s sociability and assertiveness.

4. Mr. Prosset checked information and fired Richard.

5. Richard got a new position in Canadian office.

6. The hero became a Vice President of PAC.

Контрольная 6 (для всех специальностей)