Tuesday, November 15, 2011

English Idoms - Unit 2: MEETING WORK DEADLINES

We have a lot on our plate. For example, we’ve gotten three new projects just this week, and I don’t now if we have the bandwidth to finish the work on time. There’s only one experienced engineer who really knows the ropes. We have two new employees who catch on quickly, but this is a very heavy schedule. We need to do a dry run with the prototype before we release the software to the customer. It’s critical that we have enough time to troubleshoot problems in this program and then get the bugs out before the release. The marketing department is already advertising this software as plug and play, so it has to be trouble free an very easy to install. We can probably finish the first job by next Friday, but I think the next one will be down to the wire because we only have three days after...

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