Sunday, January 11, 2009

Chinese New Year Office Cleaning (MP3 at www.teacherbill.com)

Okay, I’m here with our pre-Chinese New Year cleaning, and this is a tradition here in Chinese culture, to clean before the new year, once a year. We actually have a cleaning contest to see which floor can do the best job cleaning.
I really think it’s kind of a neat thing to have, an organizational cleaning in the office. Because what happens is, usually in America, there’s no such organized cleaning, and then things just pile up, and they just, they start to look unprofessional, and it looks real sloppy around an office.
So, but uh, this is good not only for the organization, but also personally, because we accumulate things that we don’t need. Think about your desk—you’ve got stuff there for two, three, four years that you’ve never even looked at—you don’t even need. It’s time to get rid of them.
Go through your stuff now, and look at it. If there’s anything you haven’t even used in six months, you might want to think about throwing it out.
And, uh—I’ll tell you about accumulating things. Alex, you can show them some of the cleaning here, and see all the work that’s being done—right.
So, anyways I want to show you something. There’s an office in Scott Township where my father used to work. What they do—they don’t throw anything out—they actually have started to put garbage bags over chairs. (Come on Mabel.) And they actually use the garbage bags as, like a filing system. And their whole—they’ve got this big room full of these garbage bags. Of course, the tables are all piled up with things. And, uh, it’s really embarrassing; one, it’s embarrassing, it doesn’t look professional; two, I don’t know how they find anything, in this atmosphere.
So, don’t let your office get to this point. Have an organized cleaning once a year. We do it here in Asia, so do it back there in America.
Goodbye!

Key Words
Organizational-n-relating to the entire organization, involving everyone.
Pile up-v-to become more and more, not organized, unmaneagable.
Sloppy-adj-messy, not organized, untidy.
Accumulate-v-to gather things, collect many items.
Get rid of-v.phr-to discard, throw away.
Filing system-n-a way of keeping things in order.
Embarrassing-adj-shame, feeling of not being very good.
Atmosphere-n-the surroundings of a place, the environment.

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