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Unit 8: News and Magazine Articles

employee and its primary aim is to learn the reasons for the person’s departure. An exit Notes
interview is a great way of releasing a part of your frustration.
2. Don’t hold grudges. This will only hinder you from making progress at your current or
next workplace.

3. Keep your opinions as private as possible. Also, limit your opinions to people who
understand what you’re going through or who have gone through the exact same thing.
The last thing you want is someone ratting you out to your former employers.
4. Don’t spread rumours. They are very harmful and you never know how they may catch up
with you.
5. Don’t befriend your seniors/supervisors on social networking sites. Your co-workers are
not necessarily your friends. If you already have made connections with them online,
watch your status updates, messages and tweets, and resist the temptation to vent online
about work.
(Source: HT Brunch)

Keywords

Downsizing: Reducing the total number of employees at a company through terminations,
retirements, or spinoffs
Ranting: Speak or shout at length in a wild, impassioned way

Exercises

1. Find a word (s) in the text that means the same as:
(a) Risky
(b) Peaceful
(c) Voice out

(d) Unkind remarks
(e) Charge
2. Summarise the article in maximum 3 lines.
3. What has been said about the ill effects of badmouthing your previous employers on social
networking sites?
4. Do you agree with the views of the writer? If not, suggest changes wherever you don’t
agree with the text.

5. Suggest another suitable headline for the article.

8.4 Miscellaneous Articles

1. Is Android the Next Windows?

Jamshed Avari, May 26, 2011
When using a Windows PC today, it’s easy to take for granted that the software will just work.
If you need something new, just pop in a CD or download it from the Web—there’s usually no
question of whether it will work or not. With the combined market shares of all available versions

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