Shadowing Practice: Work Stories (sooubway) - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I think that everyone at some point in their life should work in a fast-food or retail job.

Not to improve their work ethic or anything, but so that everyone knows what it's like to have that kind of job.

They wouldn't work in fast-food their whole lives, maybe just like, for six months.

Just so they get a feel for it.

So with that, let's talk about the time when I worked in fast food.

I used to work at a very small, local, sandwich shop.

I don't know if any of you guys heard of it, it's called SOOUBWAY?

Our spokesperson was in the news recently.

I don't know if you guys look at the news.

Did you hear he got beat up in jail?

I kinda want to meet the person who beat up Jared, more than Jared.

Not in person, we wouldn't meet in person, obviously.

But like, he would be behind bars, and I would just look at the guy who beat up my spokesperson.

How many people get to say that they beat up a fast-food icon, who was also a pedophile?

Only one, and it's that guy.

Okay but seriously guys, working at Subway was probably one of the most easiest jobs out there.

I don't know what I'm about to complain about it to you guys.

We got free cookies! And you know the comic with the Subways in Hell?

I was actually working at Subway when I made that comic.

I just think it had sort of a little bit of value to it.

You see, the owners, who were husband and wife...

Can you believe it? ...of the Subway I worked at, owned two stores.

One of the Subway stores was in a Walmart, on an Indian Reservation, 'cause we have those in Arizona, and the other Subway...

...was the Subway I worked at.

And since the Walmart store was always busy, the owners would spend 99% of their time at that store.

So I didn't really have a boss, most of the time. On the off-chance the owners did show up, they would just pick up some food and then they would make sure I was making sandwiches the right way.

And every time I made a sandwich in front of them, they would always find something wrong with it, without fail.

YOU PUT ON TOO MANY OLIVES.

Do you know, according to the Subway formula, you're only supposed to put on 6 olives on a foot long?

SIX!..... One for every other bite.

That's just ridiculous! Can you imagine someone just counting out 6 olives?

Nobody does that!

I usually worked the closing shift, and at the end of the night, we would turn the alarm and we would have 60 seconds to get out of the store.

But one time, I had the opening shift.

So I unlocked the door to get in with my key, and the alarm went, meaning I had 60 seconds to turn it off.

No big deal, right?

I turned the alarm on all the time when I was closing.

So I go to the little control panel, and I type in the code, and nothing happens.

The beeping is still there and the clock is still ticking down.

So I go, "Okay, I'm going to press each button very carefully.

I'm going to make sure each button makes a beep when I press it." Nothing still happens.

So I go, "OKAY! I'm going to make sure to press each button, VERY CAREFULLY!" And I start thinking, did they change the pass code without telling me?

Was the only pass code I know, so we're just gonna try it again.

And I press each button, very carefully.

And it goes quiet...

AND THEN THE ALARM GOES OFF!

I still had, like, 20 seconds left, but I guess when you get it wrong 3 times, it automatically assumes that you're a burglar.

So while the alarm is going off, I look on the contact sheet for the owner's cell phone number, I step outside, I call him, and he doesn't pick up.

So I go back inside, find the number for the other Subway store, they open an hour before we do, Someone picks up with their stupid voice, "Oh, thank you for calling Subway, I'm...

...how may I help you?" And I go, "Hey, is Mike there?" That's not his real name guys, don't worry.

And they go, "Um, just a minute." Yeah, sure, I have all the time in the world. The cops might be on their way, but take your time.

So, Mike picks up.

MIKE: y-hello JAMES: Hey Mike, this is James. Uh, what's the pass code for the alarm?

MIKE: Who is this?

JAMES: It's James. What's the passcode?

MIKE: What are you doing there James?

JAMES: WHY AREN'T YOU ANSWERING THE QUESTION?

I have the opening shift.

MIKE: Is the alarm going off?

JAMES: Yeah. No one told me the new code.

MIKE: Yeah, we changed it. It's the last 4 digits of your social security number.

JAMES: Oh, oh, okay. Thanks Mike.

I DON'T KNOW MY SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER!

So I finally get the alarm off, no one showed up, thankfully.

Which, I actually don't know if that's a good thing or not, now that I say it out loud.

We did have a store manager who would, like, make the schedule and sometimes tell us, "Hey, can you guys do a better job at...

your job?" But other than that, she was cool!

She watches my videos and so do her little brothers, They're big fans. Shout out to Ivan and Andy.

Those are the brothers.

So get this, at Subway, you only work with one other person.

Just you and them in an empty Subway for 5 hours.

I mean we weren't, like, empty all the time. Okay?

And when you're not making sandwiches, you have other stuff to do like, stocking the chips or...

...we had stuff to do.

But okay, we did watch a lot of Netflix and do homework, so I mean...

That other person you worked with, would make or break your entire shift.

It wasn't the annoying customers. I kinda got used to annoying customers.

So I worked with a lot of crappy people.

And I also worked with a lot of people who I would probably never become friends with except in a work setting.

You see, you got to understand the type of people who got jobs at Subway.

Potheads. Most of them were potheads.

AND SOME OF THEM WERE REALLY COOL!

I'm just gonna go over a couple of the characters that I worked with.

There was Tyler, I freakin love this guy. He smoked a lot of weed.

He actually told me what vaping was, and he got me into Clash of Clans.

I actually mentioned him and his girlfriend in my riddles video.

I don't know if I ever told him that.

And of course I have to mention Corey, he was cool.

We watched "How To Get Away With Murder" on Netflix, and I've also hung outside with him outside of work.

What him and Tyler had in common is that they would actually do their job, Which you got to appreciate.

Then there was this guy.

And get this, I can say these things. He's dosen't watch my videos.

There's Sarah. She was cool. She make me a bread bowl, and her boyfriend, Jay.

He talked about chacras and...

...third eyes, he was...

interesting.

And also, there's Anthonee. He's cool.

What's up Anthonee!

For the hundred thousand sprinkles video, I actually went back to Subway to use their scale because I knew they had one, and we counted 500 sprinkles again just to be more accurate for the hundred thousand, and Anthonee helped me count.

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Instead of working.

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I mean, at least he got paid...

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...minimum wage for it.

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So 2 more stories, before I go.

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One time...

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Jared asked to take out this pile of trash, and I was like, "Oh, okay, I'll just put this pile of trash in the dumpster." And as I was taking it out, I saw that there was a chip poster in the pile.

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And I thought, "This is too cool to throw away. I'm going to keep it." So I took it home with me, and then the next day, when I went in, people were saying, "Oh, where's the chip poster?

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We can't find the chip poster! We ha- We haven't seen it anywhere!" And I'm thinking, "I have the poster." I decide not to tell anyone that I had the poster, and it's still hanging up in my room.

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Sorry boss if you're finding out about this now.

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Okay, then the other story, I was working with the manager and we were just making sandwiches like usual, and I noticed that when we toasted a sandwich, it would burn the paper a little on the edges.

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"That probably shouldn't be happening." So then a customer asks for just bacon toasted.

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And the boss lady put some bacon on paper, and then puts it in the toaster.

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And we don't have a setting for just bacon.

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So then when she opens the toaster, There was a fire, on the bacon!

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So then she starts to wack it with the little, metal, tray thing, but all she ended up doing was fanning the flames, making the fire bigger. "Uh, you got this, right?" Then I went in the back and I got the fire extinguisher and I actually used it!

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I single-handedly saved that Subway!

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Wait. What have I done?

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BOSS LADY: Is it okay if the bacon's a little crispy?

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And has nitrogen and carbon dioxide stuff on it?

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 118 sentences and 1631 words to shadow. The speech runs for 7:03. The speaker talks fast, about 232 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
alarm noun	/əˈlɑɹm/	A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
sandwich noun	/ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/	A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food.
poster noun	/ˈpoʊstɚ/	A picture of a celebrity, an event etc., intended to be attached to a wall.
chip noun	/t͡ʃɪp/	A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
bacon noun	/ˈbeɪ.kən/	Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
carefully adverb	/ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/	With care; attentively, circumspectly.
pile noun	/paɪl/	A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
olive noun	/ˈɑ.lɪv/	A tree of species Olea europaea cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it.
comic noun	/ˈkɑmɪk/	A comedian.
trash noun	/tɹæʃ/	Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
toast noun	/toʊst/	Bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning).
spokesperson noun	/ˈspoʊksˌpɝsən/	A person who acts as the voice of another person or a group of people.
ridiculous adjective	/ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/	Deserving of ridicule; foolish, absurd.
formula noun	/ˈfɔː.mjʊ.lə/	Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
wage noun	/weɪd͡ʒ/	An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
beat up verb	To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows.
go off verb	To explode.
pick up verb	To lift; to grasp and raise.
show up verb	To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically.
count out verb	To exclude; to dismiss from participation or eligibility.
end up verb	To bring to a conclusion.
get away with verb	To get away, or escape, taking (something) with one.
get in with verb	To become liked or accepted by and/or involved or associated with (especially a group of people)

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 39 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: trash /tɹæʃ/, sheet /ʃit/, extinguisher /ɪkˈstɪŋɡwɪʃə(ɹ)/
Long words — get the stress right: ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, extinguisher /ɪkˈstɪŋɡwɪʃə(ɹ)/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like alarm, sandwich, poster.

דקדוק בסרטון הזה

המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון:

מבנה	בסרטון
משפטי זיקה (Relative clauses) who / which + clause — מידע נוסף על אדם או דבר	person who beat · guy who beat · people who I
הווה מושלם (Present perfect) have/has + past participle — פעולה שקרתה בעבר ועדיין יש לה חשיבות או השפעה עכשיו	I've also hung · haven't seen · have I done
עבר ממושך (Past continuous) was/were + -ing — פעולה שהייתה בתהליך בזמן מסוים בעבר	was actually working · was making · was closing
עצה עם “should” should + verb — לומר מה כדאי או מומלץ לעשות	should work · shouldn't be

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

דקדוק בסרטון הזה

מהי טכניקת השאדואינג?