Too many lies, too few naps

A pair of columns on the Wall Street Journal's CareerJournal site highlight two unfortunate trends in the contemporary office:

• More employers are tempting potential hires with job offers that are more deceptive than descriptive:

  Part of the problem is that job descriptions are written with the slipperiness of classifieds and personals. A brief lexicon from one recruiter: "Character building" means the job stinks, "mentoring" means "you've got a staff so inept you're a babysitter," "expense account" translates into "a bagged lunch so you can stay at your desk" and "team working environment," means noisy cubicles, says Don Steinmann, who used such euphemisms when he put together a team of computer programmers.

• Fewer businesses are letting employees nap during work hours. If yours does, this piece offers some useful tips on how to take more effective naps. If yours doesn't, it offers some useful tips on how to get away with it.