Indonesian–English parallel text
Giliran Kerja Malam
The Night Shift
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A bilingual Indonesian–English edition: the Indonesian text with the English beside it, paragraph by paragraph.
Opening the reader…
Enam menit
Six minutes
Rosa tinggal di Manila. Dia berumur tiga puluh satu tahun. Dia bekerja pada malam hari.
Rosa lives in Manila. She is thirty-one. She works at night.
Kantor dia adalah pusat panggilan di lantai sepuluh. Di sana ada seratus meja dan seratus telepon.
Her office is a call centre on the tenth floor. There are a hundred desks and a hundred phones.
Pusat panggilan itu bekerja untuk satu perusahaan internet di Kanada. Orang di Kanada punya masalah dengan internet mereka. Mereka menelepon, dan Rosa menjawab.
The call centre works for an internet company in Canada. People in Canada have problems with their internet. They call, and Rosa answers.
Di Manila waktu malam. Di Kanada waktu siang. Rosa bekerja dari pukul sepuluh malam sampai pukul enam pagi.
In Manila, it is night. In Canada, it is day. Rosa works from ten in the evening to six in the morning.
Rosa punya teks di layar dia. Teks itu punya kata-kata untuk setiap panggilan telepon.
Rosa has a script on her screen. The script has the words for every call.
“Halo, nama saya Rosa. Bagaimana saya bisa membantu Anda?” Itu baris pertama dari teks itu.
“Hello, my name is Rosa. How can I help you?” That is the first line of the script.
Di layar, ada juga jam. Jam itu menghitung menit untuk setiap panggilan telepon.
On the screen, there is also a clock. The clock counts the minutes of every call.
“Enam menit,” kata pemimpin tim dia. “Satu panggilan telepon itu enam menit. Bukan tujuh. Bukan delapan. Enam.”
“Six minutes,” says her team leader. “A call is six minutes. Not seven. Not eight. Six.”
Pemimpin tim dia seorang pemuda dengan kemeja putih. Dia berjalan di antara meja-meja sepanjang malam. Dia melihat setiap jam.
Her team leader is a young man in a white shirt. He walks between the desks all night. He looks at every clock.
“Ya, saya tahu,” kata Rosa. “Enam menit.”
“Yes, I know,” says Rosa. “Six minutes.”
“Bagus. Perusahaan di Kanada membayar untuk enam menit. Perusahaan itu tidak membayar untuk obrolan yang panjang.”
“Good. The company in Canada pays for six minutes. It does not pay for long talks.”
Malam terasa panjang. Rosa menjawab empat puluh panggilan telepon. Seorang wanita di Toronto tidak punya internet.
The night is long. Rosa answers forty calls. A woman in Toronto has no internet.
Rosa membaca teks itu, dan dia membantu. Lima menit, empat menit, enam menit. Jam itu senang.
Rosa reads the script, and she helps. Five minutes, four minutes, six minutes. The clock is happy.
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