I have one of those god awful “Ergonomic” computer chairs. It has a height adjustment, a back angle adjustment, and a seat tilt adjustment.
All these adjustments ever seem to do is increase the amount of pain I feel when I sit in the damn thing.
I have tried every single ergonomic adjustment procedure I have found on the internet, but none of them help make the seat more comfortable.
About two minutes after I sit in the chair my calves start to ache. Why in gods name does it do that. An ergonomic chair is supposed to be comforable to sit in. But no not this one.
And it’s a fucking gift too. I cann’t get rid of it because the person who gave it to me would get very upset. My old computer chair was tossed “because you don;t need that old thing anymore now that you have this new chair”.
Fuck, is there any way to fix this god forsaken chair with out setting it on fire and buying a new one. (Honest it was an accident, how was I to know that appling a heat source to the chair would cause it to ignite?)
To all the assholes out there who would buy a chair for a person: Don’t even think about it, take your calf whoring hands out of your purse, and remove your self from the chair store. Give the person money to buy his own chair; that way in two or three years s/he will still be able to walk.
And to all the SOB’s out there that like to adjust a person’s chair (once, I remember that I had the chair adjusted so that it was almost perfect, instead of my calves feeling like they were being ripped apart by fish hooks, it was just a dull pain), never touch another person’s chair again. When I retire I will make it my personal business to hunt each and every single one of you down, and boil you in tar. Were I the King of the World, adjusting a person’s chair without that person’s permission would be a capital offence.
I’m with ya. The ergo chair I sit in at work is broken – the seat is permanently set to tilt forward. I constantly feel like I’m going to spill onto the floor! They’re no good, these chairs.
I just pulled my recliner up to my computer desk. The ottoman swings nicely into the kneehole. To my front left is the TV, and I’ve pulled my fridge over to the general area as well. How’s that for ergonomics?
"Urgh"onomics. Love it. Our office is moving in October–we’ll all get new chairs. Which is good. Because now when I get up I get a squeak that sounds like the Scooby Doo “uuuuUURH?”
The best part though: I’ll get to dump my crappy old 21-inch monitor and get a brand new 17-inch. WTF? In the name of expense management I volunteered to suffer with my old monitor, but no dice. The company loves me too much.
Is this one of those awful, godforsaken “chairs” with no back, where you sort of sit on your knees? Well, you sit on your butt, but in a kneeling position?
Feh.
I had one of those “ergonomic” chairs. I found: no back support, no place to rest my arms, and there’s no way to shift position. You are constantly forced to sit in the same position. Anybody else spend 8-10 hours in front of a computer? I don’t care what position you’re in, if you have to stay in one for more than an hour or so, you’ll be in pain. I hated using my computer at home and found myself stacking junk mail on the ergonomic one and pulling up a kitchen chair to work.
I chucked mine to the curb when I moved.
Then I spent the next 10 months looking for The Perfect Chair. I ended up with an antique banker’s type chair, with the wheels. It’s all wood and the seat is one of those cane-woven thingys and there’s squeaky springy things on the bottom that allow you to lean waaaaayyyy back and chill while computing. (The link has a solid wood seat, but you get the idea. And I’m pleased to discover that I paid about 25% of what that ebay chair is going for… Heh!)
Couldn’t agree with you more fluff. My damn ergo office chair makes my hips, lower back, knees and thighs hurt. This is after 2 years of trading chairs with everyone else, trying to find a decent one.
My desk is worse though. It’s one of those crappy old teacher’s desks. The kind that wasn’t meant to have a computer on it because computers weren’t invented yet. Somehow, I have to fit my computer, phone, reference books, orders, credits, RGA forms, paperclips, white-out, post-it’s, stapler, tape and calculator on this shitty desk. It’s very close. Some days, I don’t have room for my hands. If I’m preparing to file, I move my keyboard to the top of my monitor so I can have more room. Good news though, we’re moving next month and my new cubicle has a real cubicle work station. The desk is meant to hold a computer and it has about 4 times the space I have now.
I have to keep my chair though
About a year ago, I was promoted and moved into an office. Since I had helped the facilities lady out a few times, I called in a favor and asked if she could hook me up with a nice chair. She tried.
It was big and fluffy with an air pump for the lumbar region of my back. Pretty comfy and, as we all know, the bigger your chair the more important you are. There was one thing wrong with it though.
The height adjustment was broken. That’s right. That, and it was set waaaaay too high. After about six months of trying to find a way to comfortable in it, I gave up and stole someone else’s chair. I love this chair. Not as fancy as the last one, but my feet reach the ground and it leans back farther.
The guy never found out who stole his chair. But it was okay because he likes it. I say bully for him.
