I thought this story was sort of funny when it popped up on MediaBistro— funny, yet horrifying!

So there once was this copywriter named Aaron Robnett, who worked with Daniel Shapiro. Robnett and Shapiro toiled over client needs like creative teams do. Until Robnett left his New York agency for Boston and some sort of comedy start-up. Typical. Also typical, he didn’t thoroughly clean out his desk and now a comically-peeved Shapiro is selling 20 left-behind notebooks containing Robnett’s ideas.

I hope I never forget any notebooks when I leave a job! At least not ones containing anything important and personal. The notebooks being auctioned were all yellow lined pads, nothing fancy, but who knows what their contents meant to the original owner.

Actual listing on eBay. No one placed a bid.