ManagementSpeak: Work extra hours and take time off to balance them, but we don’t expect to balance them one for one.
Translation: Our job: Tell you what the balance isn’t. Your job: Work enough hours to get everything done and don’t complain.
This week’s contributor asked for anonymity, given that the person he’s quoting is his organization’s head of human resources. Wise decision.

ManagementSpeak: Don’t bring me problems. Bring me solutions.
Translation: Of course, if you don’t convince me there’s a problem I can ignore your solution.
Correspondent  L.T. gets the credit for this one …