Sticker shock
Mar. 31st, 2016 11:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
baronessekatMy back has been bugging me the last several days. When I've been at my desk for a while and then stand up, I'm stiff and feel hunched over.
I switch between my yoga ball chair and my regular office desk chair throughout the day depending on how I feel.
This morning it finally dawned on me. My regular desk chair (not my yoga ball chair) is lower than it used to be. My first thought was someone was messing with it when I was out of the office. But upon inspection it turns out the pneumatic piston for height adjustment is broken. It no longer locks into a height and drops to the lowest setting. Which, honestly is only about an inch or less lower than what I had it set at as I've got short legs, but it was enough to throw my posture and stuff out of whack.
So I start the process of looking for a new chair. When the heck did office chairs get to be so expensive? Holy crap. The place we get our chairs from... their low end stuff is still over $200.
I know I sit for 8+ hours a day or so, therefore I want a decent chair, but the concept of spending $300 for a chair just baffles me.
Anyway, I will make an appointment to go to the showroom and test chairs and hopefully find one that works for me.
I switch between my yoga ball chair and my regular office desk chair throughout the day depending on how I feel.
This morning it finally dawned on me. My regular desk chair (not my yoga ball chair) is lower than it used to be. My first thought was someone was messing with it when I was out of the office. But upon inspection it turns out the pneumatic piston for height adjustment is broken. It no longer locks into a height and drops to the lowest setting. Which, honestly is only about an inch or less lower than what I had it set at as I've got short legs, but it was enough to throw my posture and stuff out of whack.
So I start the process of looking for a new chair. When the heck did office chairs get to be so expensive? Holy crap. The place we get our chairs from... their low end stuff is still over $200.
I know I sit for 8+ hours a day or so, therefore I want a decent chair, but the concept of spending $300 for a chair just baffles me.
Anyway, I will make an appointment to go to the showroom and test chairs and hopefully find one that works for me.
