Vocabulary and collocation for What Companies Do
Discussion: Business Activities
Tour guides build tour packages 
(person) Inventor
(things which they create) Inventions


Expressions
We can't see the forest for the trees
Move up in the hierarchy.


Vocabulary
dress / street shoes
athletic shoes
...produce petroleum based products 
Greeting overseas  business clients


correct: subordinates = those below you in rank
incorrect: juniors
correct: superiors = those above you in rank
incorrect: seniors
correct: peers / co-workers / colleagues = those equal to you in rank


 correct: Boss = my boss / the person in charge of me / my superior(s) / my director / my supervisor(s) / my manager / (slang) the head honcho / 
incorrect: chief / captain / cap / 


 correct: employees
incorrect : workers


Q: Do you like working overtime?
A: I have never held a job, so I can't say.
Q: Well, if you did have a job, do you think you would like working overtime?
A: If I had a job, I don't think I would like working overtime.