F2F Class Notes 6th November (Raph)

Vocabulary

Constructive (adj): 1- having or intended to have a useful or beneficial purpose.
E.g.: He wanted to give his employees some constructive criticism to help them improve and achieve their goals.

Destructive  (adj): 1- something that causes great and irreparable damage. 2- negative and unhelpful (as in “destructive criticism”).
E.g.: The school is concerned about the destructive behavior of a few students.

Hierarchy (n): 1- a system in which members of an organization or society are ranked according to relative status or authority. 2- a vertical power system.
E.g.: The initiative was with those lower down in the hierarchy.

Hierarchical (adj): 1- something that is based on a hierarchy or that is arranged in order of rank.
E.g.: The new policy is a challenge to the traditionally hierarchical system of control.

Audit (n): 1- a formal examination of an organization’s or individual’s accounts or financial situation.
E.g.: The audit revealed a series of irregularities in the company’s finances.

Corrections

(Original – Edited)

Giving feedback is a skills. – Giving feedback is a skill.

Original:

Anyway, I was lucky as I recovered slowly but finally. However, some of my classmates were not so lucky. One of my graduate classmates, who severed HW for half-an-year, in a business trip to Burma, he never waked up there at that mid-night. No one knew what exactly happened, several classmates said it’s because of overwork. At that time, he just bought a new apartment and planned to get married with his fiancée in the following half-an-year. His new life just started but ended in that cold mid-night.

Edited:

Anyway, I was lucky. Although slowly, I finally recovered. However, one of my classmates was not so lucky. He worked for HW for half a year and one day, when he was on a business trip to Burma, working in the middle of the night, he suddenly passed away. No one knew what exactly happened,  but several classmates said it was because of overwork. At that time, he had just bought a new apartment and was planning to marry his fiancée in the following months. His new life was just starting, but ended in that cold night.

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