Every office has one...

The whiz is...

• someone who is very quick at solving problems

• someone who is a trouble maker

• someone who likes talking people behind their back.

The paper- shuffer is..

• someone who works hard.

• someone who struggles to look busy but is probably not very productive

• someone who calls the shots.

The stirrer is...

• someone who likes to cause trouble for others.

• someone who loves to help the colleagues.

• someone who is nervous.

The workaholic is...

The slave driver is..

• someone who goes to great trouble to look busy.

• someone who likes telling stories and spread rumiurs about colleagues.

• a manager/ supervisor who makes inferiors work unnecessarily hard.

The techno- freak is...

• someone with unusual interest in the workings of office machinery

• someone who loves buying intelligent devices.

• a manager/ supervisor who asks employees to use new machinery

The yes-man is...

• someone who has no personal opinions.

• a good colleague.

• someone who can't say no to superiors.

To beaver away at things means

• be serious about things.

• Work hard for a long time.

• to have influence on others.

To mean business means..

• to succeed.

• to be serious about taking action

• to have enough free time.

To keep one's nose to the grindstone means

• to have enough money to pay for things

• to work very hard for a long time

• to have success