Five Favorite Recipes and Remote Work

The following are my five favorite recipes from a 1950s publication The Ford Treasury of Famous Recipes from Famous Eating Places.

On the subject of remote work, I spent two years working 100% from home. The first few months were spent working on a laptop in the dining room. After six months, I realized this would be a permanent situation, bought a chair and desk, and moved my remote office into a spare bedroom. 

I recently changed departments at the State and went to 100% in office for the month of February. Talk about difficult! In March, I went to a hybrid M/W/F in office. I like that schedule. Being a social person, it was like a prison sentence being confined to home. Now eerily quiet, sometimes I am the only person working at my cubicle on the entire floor. 

The Department I work for is moving toward a return to office. All have been informed if they want to keep their offices, they will need to return a minimum of three days a week. If not, they will be sharing an office with 1 or more individuals. If a person chooses to remain 100% remote, there will be no office to return to. 

I think it is long past time that people return. You tend to develop anti-social tendencies. The majority of people don't even appear on camera for remote meetings. So not only do you not see them in the office, you don't even see them remotely. It will be interesting when we finally all meet in person at mandated monthly meetings. 

I have also applied for a parking spot in a desired downtown structure. It is my hope some of those never-returners will be giving up their monthly parking spaces.