让你负责 这些鸡零狗碎的
“Having you handle these trivial cases”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
被同事叫过来的 这个人是个惯犯
“the suspect's background. This guy is a repeat offender.”
让你 负责 这些 鸡零狗碎 的
“Having you handle these trivial cases”
屈才了
“is a waste of your talent.”
“You are far too capable to be stuck dealing with this trivial nonsense.”
Expressing that someone is '屈才' (wasting their talent) on '鸡零狗碎' (petty tasks) is a common way in Chinese workplaces to build rapport through flattering their competence.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
trivialities; petty and insignificant matters
A vivid colloquial idiom describing tedious, fragmented chores or petty nuisances.
putting you in charge of
Standard spoken framing for task delegation or commenting on someone's assignment.
Functions as a nominalizer turning the phrase into an open-ended category of trivial things.
