I finally got off my ass today and adjusted my office chair. I bought a very nice office chair about a year ago, because my butt rests in it about 8 hours a day. I also suffer from backaches, probably brought on by butt-sitting, sleeping in awkward positions, and (lately) shovelling snow.
This morning, I shovelled snow. Then I went back up to my office and sat my butt in my chair. My back hurt. Mr. Athena came in and started laughing at me, slouched in my chair complaining about my back hurting. “No kidding,” says he, “Look how you’re sitting.”
With his help, I finally adjusted my chair. I now have lumbar support, leg support, back support, if it needs support, I got it. My chair is so comfy now I can hardly stand it. I want to share the feeling. So I hearby declare that today is officially SDMB Chair Adjustment day. Get off your butt! Adjust your chair so it’s comfortable! Go buy a NEW chair if yours is not comfy!
My chair’s pretty well solid-state. If I try adjustin’ it, something’ll break. Sorry.
There have been places where I worked where it seemed I was endlessly adjusting th’ darned office chair. And re-adjusting after someone else had sat there temporarily and done their own adjustin’ was cause for a few off-colour words to rise up from behind the reception desk. Mercifully between client visits an’ phone calls.
Mine’s not adjustable for lumbar support and the like (HEY! It was $15 at Walmart).
But it’s so much better than what I had before. I had the computer on the coffee table and I either sat on a beanbag chair or on a pillow from the sofa. Shortly after I moved, I started to worry because I was having a pain in my lower back - I’d almost decided it was a problem with my kidney! Then I realized I was spending more time in front of the computer than before, and sitting on the floor was probably not the best way. So I bought a $50 desk and a $15 chair and put them together. Two days later? No more back pain. I do need to raise it again, though. I tend to lower it when I stand up because that’s the way it twirls to go lower.
Ok, adjusted, and better.
Ouch. I thought it’d be cute to actually adjust my chair whilst reading this thread so I leaned forward, pulled the adjustment bar and screamed as my chair exploded upward, jamming my left hand into the corner of the desk. Please, for the love of all that’s holy, be careful when adjusting your chair. First, check to make sure no children or small animals are near the chair. Second, use gloves and appropriate eye protection. Third, use a condom, just because.
Anyways, the chair is now well adjusted although it does have a few remaining issues with both its mother and authority figures.
Yeah, I have a similar chair that I am currently sitting in, with leather upholstery. Like Bobby’s, it’s about as adjustable as a cinder block, but it just happens to fit me, and it’s very sturdy.
I got it from the unused downstairs room after this POS “office chair” (it came with the compact computer desk we have) broke after I sat in it a little too hard.
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