Using English at Work：42 Meeting with the Boss(1)

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You're listening to ESLPod.com's "Using English at Work." I'm your host, Dr¹. Jeff McQuillan, from the Center for Educational Development.

In our seventh lesson, we learned² vocabulary that is related³ to scheduling a meeting.

In this eighth lesson, we're going to have a meeting with the boss.

Let's begin by listening to the story read at a slow speed.

Before leaving work for the day, I want to stop by my boss's office to give him an update on my progress.

I know he's expecting the report on Monday and I want to let him know that it will be finished on schedule.

Before I can do that, he calls me into his office and tells me to sit down.

He tells me that the regional manager is impressed with my work and is considering me for a promotion⁴.

He says that this information is hush-hush, but he wants to give me the heads up.

He says that the promotion would give me a new title and a small raise, but the most important thing is that it will put me in line to eventually become a regional manager myself.

He praises me for my hard work and encourages me to keep my head down and to keep plugging⁵ away.

I'm so surprised, I don't know what to say.

I've never thought of myself as a corporate⁶ climber and I didn't think that my work was a standout from my coworkers'.

Of course I thank my boss, shake hands with him, and leave his office.

It's nice to get a pat⁷ on the back from him and I hope that the promotion does come through.

I don't want to jump the gun, though, so I'm not going to think about it too much in case it doesn't happen.

Before leaving work for the day, I want to stop by, or visit quickly, my boss's office to give him an update on my progress.

An "update" is the latest, newest information about something.

When you give someone an update, you're providing information about how your project or something else has changed since the last time you two spoke⁸ about it.