to exercise authority over (someone)

Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 312: Different Work Styles.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 312. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

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Our topic today is “Different Work Styles.” We’ll go over some vocabulary you can use to describe people’s work habits and the sorts of things that they do at work in terms of the way (or the style or manner) in which they work. Let’s get started.

Before I started my new job, I didn’t know that I would be working so closely with another employee of the company. I