Programme 11
Text Two
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Intermediate English Course Programme 11 Text Two |
| Ted | I hear you're finally retiring at the end of the year, Bill. What will you do with yourself when you've stopped work? |
| Bill | Absolutely nothing. I'll have been working for this company non-stop for forty years by the end of October, and I reckon I deserve a complete rest. |
| Ted | Forty years! You'll have seen a lot of changes in that time, I imagine. |
| Bill | Yes, and most of the changes have only made thing! worse. I used to be proud of my work; but how can you take a pride in what you're doing when every two or three years they put a new manager with new-tangled ideas in charge of the factory - and he tells you what you've been doing is all wrong? |
| Ted | Why have you stayed on all these years then, Bill? |
| Bill | Well, it's the same thing wherever you go. However well you do your job, you don't get on in any firm unless you're a friend of the manager's - and the present manager has certainly been no friend of mine. |
| Ted | Nonsense! You're exaggerating, Bill. They don't promote you, whoever you know, if you're in- efficient. |
| Bill | Rubbish! What about that young chap Dart? He's an assistant manager already and he's completely incompetent. He's only there because he's a relative of the managing director's. They'll probably make him a director soon! |
| Ted | By the sound of it you won't be sorry to leave. |
| Bill | No I won't, but it'll be no better at home. Instead 30 of the manager giving me stupid orders, my wife will be telling me off all day long. |
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