Rip Van Marty or Marty Van Winkle

Wha happened? Yesterday at work in the accounting firm, I was talking to the office manager. She told me these 2 girls left the firm. One left in July and one left the end of December.

She expressed surprise that I didn't know about the girl who left in July.

I think, besides my own stupidity, the problem was the girl who left in July frequently worked from home. Since I didn't interact with her very much, if I didn't see her in the office, I just assumed she was working from home.

Also, no one ever took down the sign with her name on it by her cubicle. I have a collection of signs of people who left. I also save their business cards. Basically, I do this as an economy measure for the firm. So, if anyone with the same name is hired, the sign and cards can be recycled.

This got me to thinking about the working from home concept. Are people more productive at home? For me, it means working in my pajamas till the afternoon or later. Why bother to get dressed? Nobody sees me or can smell me. That's the good thing about the web. If you're not visible on a webcam, you can look like crap and smell like a raw sewerage treatment plant and negotiate multi-million dollar transactions online from the comforts of home.

Maybe Donald Trump can have a new program where everyone works in their pajamas? "Home Apprentice?" Ivanka in pajamas? Why hasn't someone thought of that before?