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Medical - Human Resources / Action plan for renewable | | Danish term or phrase: "degradering" | Context is an employee satisfaction survey and this sentence came up. Otherwise easy apart from the strange use of "degradering" I would have thought this was Degrading or demotion... but it may be an instance of a Danish employee thinking he knows an English word but doesn't and translates what he thinks it is into Danish. Does that make sense? Here's the sentence:
...han bruger løs med firmaets penge til forskellige "prestige" formål, efter sin "degradering"
... and if he had been demoted, what the h*** was he dong using the company's money like water!
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|  phil curryKudoZ activityQuestions: 41 ( 5 open) ( 1 without valid answers) Answers: 1
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| | English translation:demotion | Explanation:
I think it makes perfect sense. The guy has been demoted and is p..... off at that, but he is still in a position to spend the company's money (your text doesn't indicate the level of employment/demotion), so that's what he's doing to get back at those who demoted him. Next thing, of course, he'll get the sack. :D) |
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Gitte Hovedskov Hansen
| Grading comment Of course. This is what he's doing and as you say, he'll get the push when they find out :-)
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9 mins confidence:   demotion
Explanation:
I think it makes perfect sense. The guy has been demoted and is p..... off at that, but he is still in a position to spend the company's money (your text doesn't indicate the level of employment/demotion), so that's what he's doing to get back at those who demoted him. Next thing, of course, he'll get the sack. :D)
| | | Grading comment | Of course. This is what he's doing and as you say, he'll get the push when they find out :-) |
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