Seventeen.

17：

Sometimes when I was on the receiving end，I'd come out of feedback sessions with my boss wondering what on earth he'd been talking about. As a result'I always open sessions with my employee by saying something like I wanted to talk to you about the report you wrote yesterday. I do this even when I'm responding on the spot to something that has just happened. It means we're both starting from the same point.

有時(shí)當(dāng)我在接收端，在與老板的反饋會(huì)議結(jié)束后，我想知道他到底在說(shuō)些什么。因此，在和員工開(kāi)會(huì)時(shí)，我總是會(huì)說(shuō)一些類似于“我想跟你談?wù)勀阕蛱鞂懙膱?bào)告”之類的話。甚至當(dāng)我當(dāng)場(chǎng)對(duì)剛剛發(fā)生的事情做出反應(yīng)時(shí)，我也會(huì)這樣做，這意味著我們都從同一個(gè)點(diǎn)出發(fā)。

Eighteen.

18：

I had really enjoyed working for my last company -I felt that I was really being given lots of different challenges especially in developing new products. But in the end, I felt they asked too much of me -I never seemed to have any time at home, and I felt I had to look around for another post. It was clear that this job would be much more manageable.

我真的很喜歡在上一家公司工作，我覺(jué)得公司給了我很多不同的挑戰(zhàn)，尤其是在開(kāi)發(fā)新產(chǎn)品方面。但最后，我覺(jué)得他們對(duì)我要求太高了——我似乎從來(lái)沒(méi)有時(shí)間呆在家里，我覺(jué)得我必須尋找另一個(gè)職位。很明顯，這項(xiàng)工作將容易完成得多。