Umm, I was supporting your phrasing. :) i.e., that most people get that you will work extra hours when truly required. And that even a supposedly more precise

Umm, I was supporting your phrasing. :) i.e., that most people get that you will work extra hours when truly required. And that even a supposedly more precise phrasing suffers from the problem that the listener may not interpret the words the way the speaker intended them to be. I personally feel that a categorical statement such as yours is less amenable to misunderstanding than a equivocating one. Thanks. Anyway, we're generating heat rather light in this subthread.