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October 30th, 2008

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Aspirations of an Office Chair

… of my personal1 work supplied computer chair, to be more precise.

For some odd reason, my office chairs keep getting switched about. The current one seems rather attached as of late, though. Of course, once you try sitting on it, you can instantly tell why. It is an extremely ambitious chair. I’d wager to say, it’s practicing some sort of subtle social climbing. You might think you’re sitting on it, but soon enough your position is corrected. In other words, you tend to find yourself on the brink of falling off of it.

Every time I so much as I leave it, the chair will get 2cm taller. I wonder if the constant yoyo-ing I have to practice on an hourly basis is an intended benefit. You know… sedentary work, with lack of exercise and such.

Do you have weird office ‘tools’ which have suddenly seemed to get a mind of their own? :P

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1 well company property, and it belonged to another coworker but it somehow got switched… yeah, I’m confused as well.

 
 

14 Comments

  • Crissy
    October 30th, 2008

    That sounds like an awesome chair, in a strange way :clap:

    My chair bugged me so much (or rather, I bugged it so much) that it’s now broken on one side. Oh my poor bright red chair :(

    xCrissy

    Vera: we-ell I tend to move around a lot on my chairs. Especially the home one… which was somewhat broken at the beginning as well. It tends to lose its screws pretty often, due to that XD


  • Rilla
    October 31st, 2008

    Lol “ambitious” chair. I think I understand what you’re saying. It was like me working as a little receptionist at work one day, then my computer broke down, so the boss told me to work in an office belonging to a lawyer who wasn’t there that day. I felt like the massive computer screen and big leather chair wasn’t mine at all. :star:

    Vera: *drools* big… leather… chair… I WANT ONE!! :cry:


  • Malin
    October 31st, 2008

    Sounds like a really weird chair! I had one of those at my work before. Strange things. I think they are evil or something…

    Vera: *fervent nod*


  • Rilla
    November 1st, 2008

    Hehe buy one! :boogie:

    Vera: … eventually, I will. Up until then, it’s whining time! ;)


  • Brenda
    November 4th, 2008

    Hahahaha, my school has plenty of those – especially the chairs that suddenly move downwards when I plonk my butt on it and elevates itself again when I stand up. o.O

    Not to mention me falling off one several years ago because the mechanism (to elevate/lower the chair) broke. :(

    Vera: :eek: that sounds painful. Although at least yours act somewhat normally. My chair lifts up when I sit on it.


  • April
    November 5th, 2008

    My old computer chair was so ricketty that just the way it continually swayed from side to side, you would fall off in an instant!


  • Veronica
    November 8th, 2008

    At work the computers that we use will just decide to stop working, or the programs that we use just won’t work.


  • Jess
    November 9th, 2008

    Ooo perhaps it can provide some sort of bum exercise to compensate for sitting so long in the office… perhaps the Chair God’s are doing this intentionally to BENEFIT YOU and you don’t even realise! Aw mangz, quick go give the Chair God’s your blessings!

    I once found myself in a crouching position on top of my big computer chair with the elevating shaft locked in, chatting to dad, when suddenly it clicked out of place itself and next thing I know lyingin the chair, lying horizontal on the ground.


  • Chantelle
    November 9th, 2008

    Your chair sounds interesting. All my office stuff is pretty normal. My paper clips, though, they like to disappear.

    Vera: haha, have you tried your other colleagues? Here, some random colleagues tend to suddenly find themselves with a large collection of pens :B


  • Katy
    November 14th, 2008

    I don’t have any but I just gotta say that I LOVE my office chair. I wish I can afford one of these $500 chairs at home. =(

    Vera: oh not all are that pricey… you just have to be patient enough try them all out, and I do not seem to posses such a trait :P


  • Stepherz
    November 15th, 2008

    It could be worse. Office supplies talk to my grandmother. Paperclips will tell her that they don’t want to leave their friends, and paper will tell her they don’t want to be used for a particular document.

    Vera: oh, but that would make things interesting. My chair is just plain sneaky. :fist:


  • Arwen
    November 18th, 2008

    I never had weird office tools, but at my mom’s house, the microwave oven had a mind of it’s own. Around the middle of autumn every year, when the weather started to really drop, the buttons would push themselves. Well, only the 8 button. And if you tried to push any other buttons, only 8 would show up. So you’d have to turn up the thermostat until the temperature was pretty comfortable, and then it would start working. It was funny because you knew when the house was getting chilly, you’d just hear “beep…. beep…. beep beep beep!”

    Vera: that sounds quite funny as it it were saying “cold … colder … it’s bloody freeeeeeeeeezing!“ XD


  • Katy
    December 20th, 2008

    I love my office chair.. I wish I can afford one at home!


  • Katy
    December 20th, 2008

    Oops commented twice.. sorry I was blog hopping and I knew this post seemed familiar! I add you to my google reader so I won’t get confused again! LOL.

    Vera: it’s OK, glad you found it interesting twice :P