地道美語聽力播客:Hiring a Contractor雇傭承包商

My company decided that it was time to remodel our offices and I was put in charge ofgetting bids from contractors. The trouble was, I had heard horror stories from friends who did remodeling and I was worried about finding a company that would get the job done on timeand under budget .
No doubt there are many honest contractors, but some of the people I talked to had experiences with shady companies. Some of them weren't on the level about being able to meet deadlines and some tried to get away with murder when they billed for a job . It was important that I found a company that was on the up and up .
I got bids from six companies and checked all of their references . In the end, I picked a company that had done work for one of the biggest companies in the city. They seemed to be the best and our company hired them. I have my fingers crossed that everything will gosmoothly .
背景鏈接：地道美語聽力播客English as a Second Language Podcast (ESLPod)，是一家位于美國加州洛杉磯的英語教育研究機構(gòu)推出的英文聽力會話，于2005年7月23日首播， 主播Dr. Jeff McQuillan為南加州大學(xué)的語言學(xué)博士， 現(xiàn)專注于外國語學(xué)生的英語學(xué)習研究。該播客在iTunes store播客的教育子分類中，與Grammar Girl Just Vocabulary常居前三甲.