Не тот день
Not His Day
B1 · Intermediate · fiction · 8 scenes · Free to read
A B1 comedy of errors. Dima, the self-declared unluckiest man in the office, lives through a Monday where everything goes wrong: a broken alarm, coffee on his shirt, pouring rain, a missed bus, a stern boss, a broken lift, a crashed computer that eats his report, a jammed printer, and a lunch tray dropped in front of everyone. Then, quietly, his luck turns — the files are recovered and a kind colleague, Olya, turns his terrible day around. A warm, everyday, apolitical story told in simple past-tense narrative with common office vocabulary.
Characters
- Dima (Дима) — The unlucky office worker
- The boss (Начальник) — The stern manager
- Olya (Оля) — The kind colleague
Vocabulary from this story
- офис — office
- работа — work
- начальник — boss
- коллега — colleague
- компьютер — computer
- отчёт — report
- документ — document
- принтер — printer
- собрание — meeting
- стол — desk
- лифт — lift
- лестница — stairs