In the
sub, I have a desk. And that’s fine, I
can do my work for one section of the office, take notes when I need to, I have
a phone, and a computer, and several forms and information to use, and give out.
And… I
have a running battle of late with…
The chairs.
We had
a pretty nice office chair, sort of a red colored seat, with black, and it was
pretty cushy. It has started showing its
age, but I still like it. However, I
showed up about 3 or so weeks ago, and there was a new chair. A black one, with a taller seat. I thought I would just adjust it. No dice, it was as low as it was going to
get. So, I sat.
And realized, it also was tipped forward
slightly. Just enough that I felt like I
was going to slide out, if I sat for any length of time. I didn’t realize it, but I was compensating
by leaning back, and holding myself “up” by my toes, sort of ‘on pointe’, if
you will. This did NOT work. I ended up with cramps in my back and legs by
the end of the day.
So, the
next week I used the red colored chair I’d mentioned before. It was sitting in the back, I just rolled it
up to the desk and sat. SQUEEE-AAAAK!
Hm. Well, no one is here, and I don’t care, so I
will just use it. And what a symphony of
noise ensued! Groaning, squeaking,
grinding noises, some low pitched whines… And then 2 deputies came in to catch
up on paperwork. After about 15 minutes
or so, there was a comment about the noise.
My
sin? I would turn my head from the
computer to the papers in front of me, and then click the computer mouse, and
look up again. This basically made a
continuous Squee-click-Squank, about every minute or two. After a comment about what was going to
happen to the chair if it kept up, (nothing mentioned about the user, but I
really thought I should do something), I quickly went back to the black
chair. And a mild case of leg cramps.
So,
last week, I used a non-office-y, plain old chair with padding, that they have sitting
out for back office visitors. Sort of a
gray-pink think, with gray metal legs.
It worked… Except it grips like iron, so when someone would come to the
desk, and I would need to come up and talk to them, I would have to do a rather
heavy push against the desk to move the chair back. Once, the desk, rather than the chair, moved.
Not much, but enough to convince me I need to find a different chair.
Next
week, the deputies will find one of the conference table chairs missing…
