Words connected with the world of work

Don't work late so often - you don't want to work up/ burn out before you're 30!

I joined the company as a secretary and worked my way up / burnt my way out to being the team leader.

You do this when you formally state that you are leaving a job permanently.

I'm afraid we're going to to have to key in / lay off some workers.

When my brother was born, my father was on paternity / unemployed leave for a month.

One of the other secretaries asked me to fill in for / lay off her while she had lunch.

This is an extra payment some companies make, for example, at Christmas.

I fell ill and I was on strike/ off sick for a month.

This is the fixed amount of money you get paid monthly or yearly.

The company is growing so they've decided to burn out /take on an extra hundred workers.

This is a small amount of money you get for providing good service.

You do this when you stop working because you are officially too old to work.