Working English

1 story

Ten words per story, chosen to be unlike each other. Here is how they read.

• One Point Four Percent

  When a derisory annual pay round lands in the inboxes of a payments team on a Friday afternoon, senior engineer Nadia Okafor and account lead Tom Brennan discover that the company's plea of poverty is a lie. Their evidence-based ultimatum sets off a departure nobody in management planned for.

  • remuneration
  • flippant
  • disgruntled
  • stonewall
  • quantify
  • pretext
  • indispensable
  • brinkmanship
  • exodus
  • belatedly

What it costs

Reading every Working English story is free, signed in or not, and always will be. A plan is for keeping a library of what you have worked through — and it covers every course, not just this one.

• Free

  $0

  Read everything. Keep 1 story.

• monthly

  $6.99 / month

  Unlimited library, every course.

• annual

  $49.99 / year

  Unlimited library, every course.

Full detail, and what happens when you cancel, is on the pricing page.