B1 #29 · Förstå ett okänt ord utifrån dess delar

My first week at the new office was a little disorganised. On Monday morning my manager gave me a list of instructions, but some of them were unclear, and I misunderstood the very first one. I was supposed to reorganise the files on our shared drive. Instead, I deleted a folder that looked unnecessary. It wasn't. For an hour nobody in the department was able to open their reports. I went to my manager and apologised for my carelessness. Luckily, she was very understanding. "It's not a disaster," she said. "Mistakes like this are almost unavoidable in your first week. The information on our website is incomplete, and that's our fault, not yours." Our IT specialist, a cheerful young man called Raj, brought the folder back in ten minutes. Then the two of us rewrote the instructions together. We added a short description of every folder, removed the useless parts and checked everything twice. The new version is short, clear and readable, and the next newcomer won't make my mistake. Raj was helpful from the start. He's also extremely patient, a useful quality in an office full of beginners like me.