He's not a Good Fit
他不适合
对话 Dialogue
So, Lauren, I just wanted to talk to you quickly about our new customer support representative, Jason Huntley.
劳伦，我想跟你简单聊聊我们的新客服代表，杰森·亨特利。
Sure, what’s up?
行，怎么了？
Basically, I’ve got a few concerns about him, and the bottom line is, I don’t think he’s a good fit for our company.
基本上，我对他有些顾虑，说到底，我觉得他不适合我们公司。
Okay... what makes you say that? I thought you were pleased with his overall performance. Didn’t you just tell me last week how impressed you were with his attitude?
好吧……你为什么这么说？我以为你对他的整体表现很满意。你上周不是刚跟我说他的态度让你印象深刻吗？
Yeah, his attitude is great, but he’s really unreliable. Sometimes he’s really productive, but then other times... take last Tuesday for instance, he was forty-five minutes late for our morning meeting!
对，他态度是不错，但真的很不靠谱。有时候效率挺高，可有时候呢……就拿上周二来说吧，他早会迟到了四十五分钟！
Well, I’m sure he had a perfectly good reason...
嗯，我相信他肯定有充分的理由……
But that’s not the only thing... you know, he really doesn’t have the best work ethic, I’m constantly catching him on MSN and Facebook when he should be talking to clients.
但还不止这些……你知道，他的职业操守真不怎么样，我老逮到他在本该跟客户通话的时候上MSN和脸书。
Yeah, but come on, Geoff, as if you don’t check Facebook at work. Look, you hired this guy, we’ve invested a lot of time and money in his training, so now it’s up to you to coach him. Make it work, Geoff!
是啊，但拜托，杰夫，你上班不也看脸书吗？听着，人是你招的，我们在他培训上花了大量时间和金钱，所以现在得你来带他。想办法让他干好，杰夫！
Make it work, Geoff. You would say that, wouldn’t you, he is your cousin; what a jerk, make me hire your stupid, useless, cousin.
想办法让他干好，杰夫。你当然会这么说，他可是你表弟；真差劲，逼我雇了你那又蠢又没用的表弟。
完整节目 Full Program
Hello English learners! Welcome to EnglishPod! I'm joined here today with…
Erica.
And my name is Marco. And we’re gonna be looking at an office lesson today.
That’s right. We’ve got a lesson about describing somebody, who’s not such a good employee.
Right, so, we’re gonna be talking about how to describe this type of situation.
Uhu.
And language for making your point.
Yes.
So, let’s look at some vocabulary from the dialogue in “vocabulary preview”. Voice: Vocabulary preview.
So, two words today. The first one is a good fit.
A good fit.
A good fit.
A good fit. So, when we’re talking about an employee and he’s a good fit, it means he’s suitable for the job.
Yes, he’s suitable for the job or for the company.
Or for the company, right?
Uhu.
So, the opposite would be not a good fit.
Exactly, the title of today’s lesson.
Right. And our last word for vocabulary preview – performance.
Performance.
Performance.
Performance.
Your performance is…
How good or bad you do your job.
Right, so, you can have good performance or bad performance.
Uhu, just how well you do your job.
Perfect. So now we’re ready to listen to our dialogue for the first time and as always it’s gonna be at a normal speed, but you don’t have to worry about it.
Cause we’ll come back and explain all the key language. Now we’re going to listen as two managers discuss the performance of one employee.
So, apparently Lauren hired her cousin.
Yes.
That’s always a complicated situation – working with family members.
Yeah, makes it really difficult for Geoff, doesn’t it?
Yeah, and apparently Geoff isn’t very happy. Hehe.
Well, let’s look at the language he used to tell us that he’s unhappy about this. Voice: Language takeaway.
Okay, the first word on language takeaway today – unreliable.
Unreliable.
Unreliable.
Unreliable.
So, let’s listen to some examples of unreliable, so then you can understand what it means. Voice: Example one.
The trains here are so unreliable; they never arrive on time. Voice: Example two.
Thomas is pretty unreliable; he never finishes his projects on time. Voice: Example three.
You promised you would pick me up from work today; you’re so unreliable.
We can understand that if someone is unreliable, we can’t trust them to do their job, right?
Right. So, you don’t want to be unreliable. The opposite would be…
Reliable.
Reliable.
You can trust them.
Okay. Our second word today – productive.
Productive.
Productive.
Productive.
When you’re productive it means that you accomplish your job, right?
You do a lot of work in a short amount of time.
Productive.
Uhu.
You want to be a productive employee.
Yes.
Our third word – work ethic.
Work ethic.
Work ethic.
Work ethic.
So, a person’s work ethic is that person’s attitude towards work.
Yes, if someone has a good work ethic, then they are always hard working and they come to work early and they finish their jobs on time and they stay and do lots of overtime. So, that’s a good work ethic.
Uhu. Okay, great, and our last word – coach.
Coach.
Coach.
Coach. When you coach an employee, you train them, right?
Yeah, you help that employee out by showing him or her how to do certain tasks.
How to do their job better.
Right.
Uhu. So, we’ve got some great language to describe work performance, let’s listen to our dialogue a second time. This time it’ll be a little bit slower, so you can understand these words and phrases a little bit more clearly. DIALOGUE, SECOND TIME (slow)
Alright, so, if you noticed, a lot of useful phrases have come up, so let’s take a look at “fluency builder”. Voice: Fluency builder.
On Fluency builder today we have three phrases.
That’s right, three phrases that will help us make our point better.
The first one is bottom line.
The bottom line.
The bottom line. Let’s listen to how this was used in the dialogue. Example: And the bottom line is I don’t think he’s a good fit for our company. And the bottom line is I don’t think he’s a good fit for our company.
So, basically, it means…
Like the most important point.
The most important point.
Uhu.
Perfect. The bottom line. Our second word – overall.
Overall.
Overall.
Overall. So, this is the same as saying “on the whole”.
Right, the big picture, how you would say.
Yeah, in general.
In general.
Uhu.
So, his overall performance is good. It means in general…
His performance is good.
Perfect. And our last phrase is very interesting, because we can mix it up a little bit.
Yep.
Perfectly good.
Perfectly good.
Perfectly good.
Perfectly good.
So, this is an interesting phrase, because you can describe different objects in this way.
Yeah. A perfectly good reason.
A perfectly good car.
A perfectly good computer.
So, by the sounds of it, it’s kind like justifying.
Yeah, it’s… it’s saying there’s no problem with it.
There’s no problem with it.
Uhu.
Why are you…
Yeah.
Would you throw it away if it’s a perfectly good computer?
Exactly.
Okay, perfectly good. Okay, so now we can listen to our dialogue a third time at a normal speed and now we’re ready to understand everything.
Okay, I hope everyone enjoyed our lesson today.
Uhu.
We’ve found some really useful vocabulary for a business situation.
Yes.
So, go to our website at englishpod.com where you can leave all your questions and comments and also find a lot of other resources.
That’s right, Marco and I are always on the site and we are happy to answer your questions.
Right, so, until then it’s…
Good bye!
Bye!
复习 Review
The EnglishPod audio review
Listen to the meaning, then say the vocabulary word.
Worry
Concern
Most important point
General
Overall
How well someone does their job?
Performance
Not able to be trusted
Unreliable
Doing a lot in a short amount of time
Productive
Having no problems, just fine
Perfectly good
Attitude to work
Work ethic
Teach and train someone new skills
Coach
Regularly makes bad decisions
Poor judgment
Bad attitude to work
Poor work ethic
Able to be trusted and relied upon
Dependable
A bad member of a group who makes things more difficult for others
A bad apple
Not productive, not doing a lot
Unproductive
Let's try that faster
Able to be trusted and relied upon
Dependable
Doing a lot in a short amount of time
Productive
Attitude to work
Work ethic
Teach and train someone new skills
Coach
A bad member of a group who makes things more difficult for others
A bad apple
Regularly makes bad decisions
Poor judgment
Not productive, not doing a lot
Unproductive
Bad attitude to work
Poor work ethic
Most important point
How well someone does their job
Performance
Not able to be trusted
Unreliable
General
Overall
Having no problems, just fine
Perfectly good
Worry
Concern
Now say the word and hear it in a sentence
I interviewed someone today, but I don't think he'll be a good fit for our company
You'll be a really good fit for this position
You have all the right skills and experience
I don't know, do you think she'll be a good fit?
Work ethic
Francis has a really good work ethic
He always finishes his projects on time
Work ethic
The people in this company don't have a strong work ethic
Work ethic
If you want to be a lawyer, you have to have a really good work ethic
Coach
I need you to spend some time coaching the new sales associate
Coach
I'm not very good at running meetings
Can you coach me?
Coach
Jim is coaching me on presentation skills
We just won't be able to finish this project on time
That's the bottom line
The bottom line is that your work is not good enough
When you're late for meetings, you delay the whole team
That's the bottom line
Overall
There are a few problems, but overall, I think he is doing a good job
Overall
There are a few mistakes here, but overall, this is a good report
Overall
Overall, we've been very successful this year
Perfectly good
Why do you want to get a new computer?
This one is perfectly good
Perfectly good
I can't believe you're going to throw out your iPod, it's perfectly good
Perfectly good
I'm sure you had a perfectly good reason for being late
Productive
I was so productive at work today
I managed to finish three important projects
Productive
I can't be productive with all this noise
Productive
We weren't very productive last week
We have to work a lot harder this week to finish everything
Unreliable
The trains here are so unreliable
They never arrive on time
Unreliable
Thomas is pretty unreliable
He never finishes his project on time
Unreliable
You promised you would pick me up from work today
You're so unreliable