Chủ đề: cong viec

The doctor took Dan into a room and said, "Dan, I have good news and bad news."

"Tell me the good news," Dan said.

"They're going to name a disease after you."

Từ vựng trong truyện

• bad news: tin xấu
• name a disease after you: đặt tên một căn bệnh theo tên anh

The maid told her employer, "If you don't trust me, you should let me leave."

"But I trust you completely. I even gave you the key to my jewelry box for safekeeping."

"Yes, ma'am. But that key doesn't open the box."

Từ vựng trong truyện

• maid: người giúp việc
• employer: người chủ thuê lao động
• jewelry box: hòm đựng đồ trang sức
• safekeeping: việc giữ hộ an toàn

The director called in the head of personnel and gave an order:

‘Find someone in the factory who is young and capable enough to replace me in the future.’

‘Once I've found him, what job should I give him?’

‘Fire him immediately.’

Từ vựng trong truyện

• head of personnel: trưởng phòng tổ chức; trưởng bộ phận nhân sự
• capable: có năng lực
• replace: thay thế
• Fire: sa thải

A class went on a field trip to a construction site. Shortly after they arrived, a worker fell from the fourth floor of a new building.

Afterward, the teacher gathered the pupils to discuss what they could learn from the accident.

"Why do you think the worker fell?"

Masha raised her hand. "Because he didn't follow workplace safety rules, miss."

"That's quite possible. Any other ideas?"

Kolya said, "Perhaps he was feeling ill."

"We can't rule that out. Vova, what do you think?"

"He fell because he shouted at me!"

"What do you mean?"

"He said, 'You little brat, stop shaking the ladder!'"

Từ vựng trong truyện

• field trip: chuyến tham quan thực tế
• construction site: công trường xây dựng
• rule that out: loại trừ khả năng đó
• brat: đứa trẻ hư

A man went to a public bathhouse and asked the owner, ‘How much does a bath cost here?’

‘Forty thousand dong for the men's bath, four hundred thousand for the women's.’

The man was astonished. ‘That's daylight robbery!’

‘So which would you like—the men's bath or the women's?’ the owner asked.

The man decided to pay four hundred thousand dong to see what the women's bath was like. But as soon as he stepped inside and looked around, he saw that everyone there was a man.

The other bathers looked at him and said to each other, ‘Here comes another idiot.’

The lesson: the key to business is not pricing, but what customers want!

Từ vựng trong truyện

• bathhouse: nhà tắm công cộng
• astonished: rất sửng sốt
• daylight robbery: giá đắt cắt cổ; nghĩa đen: cướp giữa ban ngày
• bathers: những người đang tắm
• pricing: việc định giá