Getting the Chair Right
December 5th 2009 08:24
Back in the days when I worked for Delta, I remember there seemed to be a lot of concern about the office furniture - the chairs in particular. The company had an on-site nurse who would visit at least once a week, and amongst her jobs, it seemed, was that of advising when staff were sitting on chairs that weren't good for their posture.
The young lady who worked next to me got herself a brand new chair this way, and if I'd worked there long enough, no doubt I could have been in line for one myself.
At my present workplace I was offered the opportunity to get a new chair some months back - for some reason other people seemed to think my chair wasn't suitable. (The office
suppliers representative even came in the door one morning and expressed great horror at what I was sitting on.) Having been brought up in a generation that doesn't concern itself overly much with whether the chair you sit on is thermodynamically designed or not, I wasn't worried about the chair. But in the end my boss decided I should have a new one.
I sat on all manner of chairs at Warehouse Stationery, and wasn't particularly fussed on any of them as a replacement. But I had to get one, so I made a choice. I was away for a day or so and my colleague put it together for me. Within another couple of days I commented to her that the chair seemed to have a slight lean to the right.
And I was right. She thought she might have put it together wrongly, but there was very little you could do to bring about such a feat, and in the end we contacted the retailer and got a replacement.
It wasn't much better. Even though the chair did what it was supposed to, I eventually went back to my original one. After all, I'd been completely happy with it. And still am.
The rejected chair sits in a corner for unsuspecting visitors!
The young lady who worked next to me got herself a brand new chair this way, and if I'd worked there long enough, no doubt I could have been in line for one myself.
At my present workplace I was offered the opportunity to get a new chair some months back - for some reason other people seemed to think my chair wasn't suitable. (The office
I sat on all manner of chairs at Warehouse Stationery, and wasn't particularly fussed on any of them as a replacement. But I had to get one, so I made a choice. I was away for a day or so and my colleague put it together for me. Within another couple of days I commented to her that the chair seemed to have a slight lean to the right.
And I was right. She thought she might have put it together wrongly, but there was very little you could do to bring about such a feat, and in the end we contacted the retailer and got a replacement.
It wasn't much better. Even though the chair did what it was supposed to, I eventually went back to my original one. After all, I'd been completely happy with it. And still am.
The rejected chair sits in a corner for unsuspecting visitors!
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