1.加班

• overtime 加班

加班就是work overtime或do overtime，也可以说work late或 work long hours，名词可以用overwork，也可以用词组late night表示。

You're doing overtime.

你在加班。

You'll never find me working late.

你不会看到我加班的（我从不加班）。

I've been working a lot of late nights the past few months. I’m really fed up with the endless overwork.

过去几个月我经常加班。我实在受不了无休止的加班了。

• put in hours 投入时间（指自愿加班）

I'm putting in hours to make sure my presentation is perfect.

我加会班，确保下周的演讲是完美的。

2.工作过度

• burn out 过劳

Stop working so hard - you'll burn yourself out.

不要这么拼了，会累坏的。

• burn the candle at both ends 起早贪黑地干，拼命工作

You've really been burning the candle at both ends lately.

你最近真的太拼了。

3.隐性加班

• be on call 待命，随叫随到

I have to be 24/7 hours on call. My boss might call me at any time and request my immediate work attendance.

我24*7随时待命，老板随时会给我打电话，让我去工作。

• always-on 永远在线

The problem with an always-on culture is that work never really stops.

“永远在线”的这种职场文化的问题在于，工作永远没法真正结束。

• respond 回应

Don’t respond to texts, emails, or messages that arrive after hours.

下班后的短信、邮件、消息就别回了。

回电话除了call back，还可以用return。

I had bosses who would call me at all times of the night and not stop until I returned the call.

我的老板们夜里随时给我打电话，我不回他就不停地打。

4.失联权

• be entitled to 有权

Put the phone on do not disturb. You are entitled to a life of your own after hours.

电话调成勿扰模式。你有权在下班后过自己的生活。

• out of reach 失联

You can be out of reach—and out of a job.

你可以失联——然后失去工作。

5.搬砖人-天选打工人

• wage earner

  
  

比起employee，"wage earner", 更适合用来表示“打工人”。

“wage”这个词就是“工资”，wage earner就是“赚工资的人”，那可不就是“打工人”嘛！非要说天选打工人，可以直接用 the chosen one天选之子 来表示。

For her, life as a wage earner began at 15.

她15岁就成了一个打工人。

Overworked and underpaid, I'm just the chosen one .

加班长，工资低，我就是那个天选打工人。