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I'm not interested in your names. This job will be over soon enough and we'll say our goodbyes anyway.

He risked his life in carrying out his duties and lit a fire in the hearts of all police officers.

Our place too is so dead-quiet it's like you can hear the cuckoos, and things are so tight we don't have the budget to hire any part-timers.

'I'm not sleeping. I'm just always slacking off.' 'That's worse!'

'Are you implicitly telling me to eat more sugar and work harder...?' 'Huh?' 'No, I'm just feeling a bit jaded. Sorry.'

No pain, no gain.

As he walked up and down the row, he shouted 'Hot dogs! Get your hot dogs!'

That customer — you know the one — complained again, you know.

You've got a big presentation tomorrow, yet you're totally chill about it.

I do my best work when I'm under pressure.

In North America, business is built on the idea that 'the customer is always right.'

I guess you could say it was a lucky break — I got a job through an acquaintance's introduction.

The plan he desperately came up with was rejected, and the book he painstakingly wrote won't sell. Yamashita has hit a wall on all sides.

She isn't going to give up her career for marriage.

She's in a bad mood — and that's because she always misses the subway and ends up walking to work.

She devoted her whole life to that work.

Once you join a company, whether you want to or not, you have to work for the company.

My boss unilaterally decided my work was sloppy.

That's simply following standard practice — it doesn't mean I cut corners.

I'd imagined — without anyone saying so — that fresh graduates would stick to behind-the-scenes work like preparing documents and making photocopies. I was gloriously wrong.

You shouldn't rank jobs as high or low, you know~.

I got fired because I slacked off at work.

Assuming I work 8 hours, it kind of feels like I'm also working during my 3 hours of commuting, but I don't get paid for that — what a waste.

Indulging in the internet during work hours, sneaking past the staff's watchful eyes.

I wonder why I suddenly started getting frozen out halfway through.

I'd been bumming around for a while, hesitating. I quit my job in the heat of the moment, but really I should've gritted my teeth and stuck with it — that's what I kept wondering.

'Any prospect of it being fixed?' 'Dr. Schweischen on the system development team is currently battling illness, so it'll probably be a while longer...'

How's that thing coming along?

For instance, in my father's work, timing matters enormously for buying and selling, and he would sometimes say or write to colleagues — without getting into specifics — that 'there's a right time for things.'

He adapted to the circumstances as they came.