A second look...and a second think.

Remember my mentioning here back in August a report from the New York Post that certain unwired cafes in the Big Apple were pulling up the welcome mat when it came to so-called "freelancers" coming in and using the place as a workspace without contributing much to its bottom line?

Well, the world has kept turning, and now it seems that some of those folks have found new venues for their endeavors-venues in which, the Post now says, coffee isn't the strongest item on the menu.

That and certain other aspects of this later story have caused me to reconsider somewhat my suggestion from last summer that those cafe owners were perhaps being a bit hasty.  After all, I've got to acknowledge that in my own experience, I've known people for whom the term "freelancer" could politely be described as a euphemism for "unemployed."  

Whether and to what extent that holds true for the NYC area right now, I can only speculate.  However, I'd bet any business owner there-be he or she the operator of either a cafe or a bar-would have a better handle on that than I would.  Maybe-just maybe-they weren't the ones who jumped the gun.