I’ve had an office job for years. If I’ve learned anything, it’s that once the boss starts throwing around official statements coded with phrases like “asked to find efficiencies,” “leverage resources,” and “decreased…revenues,” well, you’ve got problems. D.C. Department of Human Services Director Clarence Carter released such a statement yesterday regarding the massive cuts in homeless services slated in the District’s 2010 budget. Carter still appears to toe the Fenty administration line of “what cuts?”, confidently stating that D.C. will be able to “meet the full demand for homeless services during the hypothermia season.” Unfortunately, in his attempt to put ten coats of wax on this particular budgetary Yugo, he forgot that plenty of homeless service providers are already seeing large reductions in the amount of their contracted work with the city — and anyone with experience in any sort of corporate setting will read Carter’s statement with serious trepidation about the state of D.C.’s homeless services in the year to come. Hey, at least we’re certainly not alone in wondering about what Carter thought he was clarifying here, other than burying a sack of incredibly bad news with plenty of heavy semantics.