Re: A 'new' chair
There is so much to say about office furnitures in office, particularly, unsurprisingly, open ones.
A couple good ones from my career:
- the classical crap chair (there were all decades old in this company, possibly the first ones with wheels. Once, when attempted to roll, this fella almost ate corner of the table, due to a snapping wheel bearing
- this one, you always had one: the chair which breaks a leg and the dude going down legs high. Fortunately no harm
- the ergonomic chairs, ah dear God, I wish I'd seen many of them but sadly only spotted one a couple of times. The most mindboggling one was one of a quite heavy lady, who apparently was able to summon the powers of the ninth hells to frighten enough the accountants into getting one. This thing was amazingly impressive: shelves, laying work position, position for feets, various pieces of metal for screen, mouse, kb. It made her look like bloody Buck Rogers. By a coincidence, we named her exactly this :)
Another story was this 700 staff move we were assisting with: new building, every work position standard, one screen per position.
Bizarrely after 2 days we noticed disappearance of quite a lot of screens and also a lot of positions with *2* screens.
Yep, every open space additional screen was "compensated" by a missing screen in the same space.
Good news: no screen disappeared from the building. Bad news: 2 screens setup would soon become standard and 700 screens were to be ordered :)