| 19B | 20B | 21C | 22B | 23B | 24C | 25C |
| 26D | 27A | 28D | 29A | 30C |
Wei: My cousin sent me this. Do you think I should try?
| SUN TRADE · Office Help, Two Days a Week |
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| Monday and Wednesday, 13:00 to 17:00 |
| Work: papers, phone, and simple charts |
| Pay 200 an hour |
| Near MRT Green Line, Sun Hill station |
Ann: Eight hours a week at 200 is 1,600. That is not bad for two afternoons.
Wei: But I have a class until 13:30 on Wednesday.
Ann: Ask if you can start at 14:00 on that day and stay until 18:00. Most offices might move an hour for you.
偉：我表哥傳這個給我。你覺得我該試試看嗎？
| 陽光貿易 · 兼職辦公室助理 |
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| 星期一與星期三 13:00 至 17:00 |
| 工作內容：文件、電話、簡單圖表 |
| 時薪 200 |
| 鄰近捷運綠線陽光站 |
安：一週八小時、時薪兩百，就是一千六。兩個下午能這樣不錯。
偉：但我星期三有課上到 13:30。
安：問問看那天能不能 14:00 開始、做到 18:00。多數辦公室或許可以幫你挪一小時。
Please read this before you take a job outside school.
A job can teach you things no class can, and anyone may love the work more than any school subject. It can also take the hours you need for sleep. If your marks fall for two months, we will ask you to stop for one term. This is not to punish you; it is the promise we make to your family.
If your boss asks you to work longer than the law allows, tell us. You will not get into trouble, and we will speak to the company. Many students do not know that the law is on their side.
在校外打工前請先閱讀本說明。
工作能教你課堂上學不到的事，任何人都可能愛上這份工作，勝過任何一門學科，但也可能占掉你需要的睡眠時間。如果你的成績連續兩個月下滑，我們會請你停工一個學期。這不是要處罰你，而是我們對你家人的承諾。
如果老闆要求你工作超過法律允許的時數，請告訴我們。你不會有麻煩，我們會與公司溝通。很多學生並不知道，法律是站在他們這邊的。
Dear Mrs. Yeh,
I worked in your office for two summers while I was at school. I am writing now because I have just been hired at a company in Taichung, and I thought of you on the first day.
You once asked me to do the same simple work for a whole week: put every paper in order by date. I thought at the time that you did not trust me with anything better. Last week my new director gave me a pile of papers and said we had lost a document. I found it in twenty minutes, and nobody could understand how.
I am not sure you planned to teach me that. But I wanted you to know it was the most useful week I have ever worked.
Lin Chia
親愛的葉女士：
我在學生時期曾在您的辦公室工作過兩個暑假。我現在寫信，是因為我剛在台中一家公司到職，而第一天我就想起了您。
您曾經要我整整一個星期做同樣簡單的工作：把每張紙按日期排好。當時我以為您是不放心把更好的事交給我。上星期我的新主管給我一疊文件，說我們弄丟了一份文件。我二十分鐘就找到了，沒有人明白我是怎麼辦到的。
我不確定您當時是不是有意要教我那件事。但我想讓您知道，那是我做過最有用的一個星期。
林嘉
Look at any office chart and you will see boxes and lines. What you will not see is the person who remembers that the electric printer needs a hard push, or who owns the one fancy pen that never fails, or who notices when a quiet worker has stopped eating lunch with the others.
This kind of work has no name and takes real time. It is seldom done by the director. It is often done by somebody near the bottom of the chart, and it is what keeps the boxes above from breaking down.
When such a person leaves, the company is surprised by how much stops working. Nothing was written down, so nothing can be handed over. The lesson is simple: the map of an office is never the office.
看看任何一張組織圖，你會看到一個個方格和線條。你看不到的是那個記得那台電動印表機要用力推一下、或擁有那支從不失靈的高級筆的人，或是注意到某位安靜的同事不再和大家一起吃午餐的人。
這種工作沒有名稱，卻真的花時間。它很少由主管來做，通常是由組織圖底層附近的某個人做的，而正是它讓上面那些方格不致崩解。
當這樣的人離開，公司會驚訝於有多少事情停擺。因為沒有任何東西被寫下來，所以也沒有東西可以交接。道理很簡單：辦公室的地圖，從來都不是辦公室本身。