VOCABULARY to get the sack - stracić pracę, zbyć wywalonym z pracy to operate the switchboard - obsługiwać centralę telefoniczną boring - nudny guest - gość to phone - dzwonić, wykonać telefon room - pokój to ask - prosić, pytać to connect - połączyć to paint - malować fingernails - paznokcie friend - przyjaciel office - biuro telephonist - telefonistka (również: switchboard operator) to pay - płacić two weeks' work - dwa tygodnie pracy to go home - iść do domu to take - brać to spend - wydawać

Lesson 13
The day I got the sack

Elizabeth: Well, I loved the hotel, I liked the manager even better, but the problem was, I wasn't very interested in actually operating the switchboard.

I just found it extremely boring, so each time a guest phoned from the room and asked me to connect him to a number in, say, Sevenoaks, I used to say to myself: "Seven - what? Seven oaks?" I didn't know what it was and I didn't know how to operate the switchboard. So, what did I do? I didn't do anything. I was just sitting there, painting my fingernails or phoning a friend.

The manager whom I liked so much called me to his office, and then he asked me... he said: "Elizabeth, do you think you will make a good telephonist?"

And I replied, rather contemptuously: "Telephonist? I don't want to be a telephonist in my life!" So, they paid me for two weeks' work and told me to go home. I took the money, I didn't go home.

I went to Biba and I spent every single penny there... that day, the day I got the sack.

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OBJAŚNIENIA

Biba - znany sklep z modnymi ciuchami, założony i prowadzony w Londynie przez Polkę, Barbarę Hulanicką, w latach 1964-1975

I spent every single penny - wydałam wszystko, co do pensa

Sevenoaks - miejscowość pod Londynem

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