Interpretation Game: Creative Translation (2): Afortunado
Here we go again! Hopefully this time the rules are clearer! 
The principle of the game is to take advantage of the fact that many words can be interpreted in different ways. So the challenge is to try and ignore the mental image we get from reading the whole text, and see what alternate meanings we can come up with for the words provided, so that we end up with a text that is unquestionably a translation of the words provided, but with a different, creative meaning. For example, Most of us might translate "La casa roja" as "The red house". But with a bit of imagination it can be "The Communist firm"!
The guidelines for the game are: 1. It really must be translation. That is, do not make something up: I need to understand why you chose the words you did. Use the interpretation of the words that most appeal your imagination, but do offer an actual translation of the words provided. Please do not add elements that are not in the original text. The idea is to see what much we can do with what we have. 2.Your translated text must make sense when read. In other words, just random, disconnected text does not qualify. 3.Your translated text must be grammatically correct and use proper spelling and capitalization. 4.Use your imagination! Think outside the box! Contemplate the possibilities - Have fun!
This is open to everyone, regardless of level. Don't be afraid to try, there are no wrong anwers; it's just for fun!
I may, however, accept an answer if I find it really clever, or if it gets a lot of votes and popular acclamation!
Today's sentence is this:
Usted será afortunado si consigue que esta persona trabaje para usted.
12 Answers
í Usted será afortunado si consigue que esta persona trabaje para usted.!
= You will be lucky if you can get through to this guy the fact that he works for you !
based upon conseguir vi = to get through to someone I am using it in a purely figurative /metaphorical sense the dictionary example gave me a literal example to get through to someone's number on a telephone line
Usted será afortunado si consigue que esta persona trabaje para usted.
Lady Luck will shine upon you if you can grasp that this creature should do your dirty work.
A gangster telling his boss that he would be fortunate to have a guy do his killing for him.
We are starting to see some more creative and adventurous answers in this second round of the game.
I must give special credit to Feliz, Margaret and Delores, who worked on fine-tuning their answers to go from something fairly close to the expected standard interpretation, to something much more creative!
I still think we can take it further, and come up with wilder (mis) interpretations of the text provided.
Here is one option I can think of:
Usted será afortunado si consigue que esta persona trabaje para usted.
"'You will be a rich person if you are able to locate the fact that this identity operates under your command.''
Afortunado is related to prosperity as much as it is to luck.
Conseguir can mean obtain or find.
Persona can mean an individual, or an identity, a role.
Trabajar may mean to do work or to operate / function, as in "this radio doesn't work".
Now let's see who's the first to earn the Master Equivocator title in the next rounds! 
Usted será afortunado si consigue que esta persona trabaje para usted.
= You really will be fortunate if you can succeed in getting this person to work in your best interests or...
You will be truly Blessed if you can achieve this: persuade this person to work for you
You will indeed be among the most fortunate if you can use your persuasive powers to make this person conform to the idea that being in your employ would be to his/her benefit. 
Usted será afortunado si consigue que esta persona trabaje para usted
You, sir, will be lucky if I get this person to do your work.
Usted será afortunado si consigue que esta persona trabaje para usted.
You'll be happy once you realize that you are reaping the benefits of another person's labor. Probably in the context of some lazy executives trying to convince a new guy that he will accept their behavior of using the people below them when he realizes how much happier he will be not having to do anything? Sorry, thats a long explanation.
Conseguir means to get, so I reinterpreted to the English "oh, I get it!" version.
And then, instead of just saying that someone else is working for him, I wanted to imply that he no longer had to work because the other person was giving him the profits of his own labor.
I hope I didn't take it too far to be in the rules still. 
Please correct my mistakes.
How about: "You're lucky if you can get that guy to treat you as his superior/boss"?
I wonder if it could be interpreted like this:
Usted será afortunado si consigue que esta persona trabaje para usted.
You can consider yourself lucky if he/she manages to make this person work for you.
Person to whom I am speaking, objects will turn favorably for you if you are sentenced to this character's functioning for you. 
Usted será afortunado si consigue que esta persona trabaje para usted.
You yourself will be lucky if you win that that individual toil for you.
Haha. I find this very difficult to do (but it IS fun). It goes against all my ingrained ideas of tranlation.
My unclever attempt: You'll be lucky if you can get that guy to do your work for you.
