subordinate

If you really want to talk to the big boss now, make sure you leave your balls here with me, for he likes no balls on people he is talking to.

I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar _ he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum for receiving his orders."The smile is very well," said he, catching instantly the passing expression; "but speak too.""I was thinking, sir, that very few masters would trouble themselves to inquire whether or not their paid subordinates were piqued and hurt by their orders.