A nice little chore for this weekend

[flexagon]

With the company's new fiscal year, the $500/year they give us for personal spending on geek equipment is restored. For the first time, we are being allowed to use that $500 toward office chairs--and oh, how sweet the thought of a cheap, really good chair! So it's time to go shopping.

I think I'll be deciding between the Aeron B and the newer Mirra.

Comments

Aeron

[hiddenbear.livejournal.com]

I have an Aeron and I love it. So configurable, and the mesh fits so well to the body ... I take the lumbar support thing off completely though, because I find the chair has enough support without it, and I can only take it for about an hour before it starts digging into my back with it.

The Mirra definitely looks cool though.

[webrat.livejournal.com]

I so want to get an Aeron at home.

Forget trying to dream that I'll get anything at work. Not possible. We only work to put yet another Lexus SUV or Mercedes in the parking lot for the upper echlons, nothing for us.

Aeron

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

Looks very pimp.

Re: Aeron

[flexagon]

Yeah, I'm just going to have to sit in them both & see what I think. The Aeron obviously is a known winner, but the Mirra has more automatic adjusting and 9 more years of engineering put into it. I'm a medium size, so the lack of different sizes isn't a problem. The real question is whether they slashed the price for good reasons (i.e. they found they could do it w/o slashing quality) or bad ones (they slashed quality to get more sales volume). And I can't tell... nobody here has a Mirra to try out, and the two people with Aerons are so much heavier than me that I can't even tell what an Aeron-adjusted-to-soyfetus would really feel like. Sigh... the problems I have. It's rough.

[flexagon]

If you bought one, you wouldn't use it at work? This will be my personally owned chair. But this is the obvious place to use it... certainly the place I sit still in for the longest hours.

(I do know someone who hates his work chair but keeps his Aeron at home, though, so clearly there are other perspectives out there.)

Nope... work isn't worthy of my spiffy chair...

[webrat.livejournal.com]

What.. and maybe get fired one day and suddenly there's a discussion of where the chair originally came from as you're wheeling it out the door? No way. When I get fired, I want to travel light as possible, hell, I keep a pair of cheap headphones at work that I don't care about. I have a .bat script already to go to quickly un-install everything that's mine, etc.

:)

Can you tell I work in a hostile environment?

One more thing...

[webrat.livejournal.com]

I do spend enough time in front of the computer when I'm at home, so the chair would be good to have at home as well.

Re: Aeron

[hiddenbear.livejournal.com]

I'll be in my office late tonight, till 4 tomorrow, and at some points on Saturday and Sunday ... feel free to drop by.

I need to be better at stuff like that

[flexagon]

The ownership-of-chair thing will be no problem here. Things purchased under this $500-refund program belong to the employee outright, plus this company has never bought anyone a chair that nice and never will. :)

I am actually terrible at separating work and personal stuff, and have tons of emails balled up in an Outlook .psd file that I'd really hate to lose. Since I think I'll be able to choose my time of leaving, I should have time to deal with stuff like that, redirect my MIT alum account, and so forth. But I'm totally aware that I'm leaving myself open to nasty data loss in the case of getting fired.

At least I'm finally administering my website from home.

thanks

[flexagon]

I plan to hit Home Design and Design Within Reach on Saturday (both are in that pricey little strip on Mass Ave between Harvard and Central), but if unsatisfied I shall surely take you up on that offer.

Re: I need to be better at stuff like that

[webrat.livejournal.com]

*nods*.. I check my email from home at work too, but I leave the "Leave on server" option checked. Yes, this means I have to wade through the same junkmail twice a day, but thunderboid (http://www.mozilla.org/) (bottom left) is usually pretty good about canning them before I see them.

There's only a handful of programs on my machine now that I wouldn't want work to get, but.. *shrugs* I'm ready.

Personally I wish it didn't have to be this way. I'm fiercely loyal to a company to the end, but only if it's worth being loyal too. I was loyal to MetalSite for 3 years before I realized that it was a sinking ship and I needed to start swimming or drown with the rats.

.bat scripts

[hiddenbear.livejournal.com]

I had one of those at my last job. Quit. Ran the script. Decided to stay. Regretted I had to get all the stuff back from the outside world, but did it. Then quit for real and had to run it again. :-)