Yes, We’re Dressed When Working From Home
Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this June 28th, 2006 11:36 pm
Yes, he’s on holiday. Yes, he’s in a garden. Yes, he’s checking his email. Yes, he wanted to "work from home" the following week.
It never fails when someone asks me about working from home…. within seconds there is some snickering reference to, “working in your underwear….”
So funny.
Why does that thought leap at neuron speed to someone’s mouth? I can almost see the question coming/
Yes I get dressed to work at home…. it may be in shorts, tanktop, barefoot, and I might wait until 5:30 PM or Thursday to take a shower, but I AM DRESSED. There are some rules of decorum here, ok?
So why the questions? You don’t wear underwear at the office?
June 29th, 2006 at 12:13 pm
Speak for yourself
August 10th, 2006 at 6:07 am
[...] The limited ability to express abstract concepts in video and audio when compared to text could mean a lessening of things like metaphors and analogies which text in the hands of a skilled writer can impart so much. Three bloggers that I read regularly (Brian Lamb, Alan Levine and D’Arcy Norman) are in a sphere of education of which I have little comprehension or first hand experience but it is their ability to turn a phrase neatly or blend humour with self deprecation that has me scouring their latest posts. They have that fantastic ability to turn an ordinary idea into something whimsical, amusing or just extremely funny. Try Brian’s post Ego Run Amok Department: I am The Brian, Alan’s great Yes, We’re Dressed When Working From Home and D’Arcy’s Stopping the raging banality (you must read the comments as well to appreciate what D’Arcy inspires). I don’t want to sound like a full blown “digital refugee” but I would hate to think that new net communication could mean the death of the metaphor in digital communication. [...]