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Aeron Chairs As Stupidity Barometers
McSpew writes: "This article at Salon describes how much startup venture money went to buying $700 Aeron chairs. Personally, I think Aerons suck. I'm sitting in one now and my back is killing me--I can never get this damn chair adjusted right, or to get it to stay in a configuration close to comfortable for very long. The wonderful high-tech mesh fabric acts like sandpaper and wears holes in my pants. I honestly miss the boring chair I had at my last job. Am I the only person who hates Aerons?" Aerons are stylish, but not everyone finds them the comfortable work chairs they're supposed to be. Here's one that looks truly comfortable.
I saw a show on either Food TV or the Travel Channel about a dot com's office. I was a totally renovated warehouse with opulant solid stainless steel garage doors used to separate a party room into a conference room, they had a kitchen that THE COMPANY, not the employees, stocked with everything you needed. Peanut Butter and Jelly, Cavier, cappucino, steaks, bakery style cookies, every kind of pop imagineable, penguin mints, spaghetti....basically a fully stocked kitchen with everyhing under the sun. Honestly when have you EVER been able to do much more cooking then warming up something in the microwave on a lunch break just due to time contraints alone!? They employees would come in when they pleased, they had a room full of arcade games, air hockey, pool and foosball. It was stupid! where was the server room? I bet they had MEGA ridiculous sized server's with no regard for budgetary concerns. They made the small project that we are undergoing here look cheap! Most DotComs were smaller then ONE building on our campus, yet we have a yearly budget much less then the total they spent! I am finally getting a new chair (not an Aeron). The chair I am currently sitting on it probably about 15-20 years old. Not only did most Dot Coms have a LOUSY business plan, they spent money like Microsoft yet they didn't have Microsoft style money. I'd expect to see this kind of stuff at Microsoft because they can afford it, but at a START UP??!?!?!?
Gorkman
Yes, where you live... Some of us don't live in the USA as you repeatedly fail to realise.
Pimping my Karma Whore since 1847.
When it comes to the .com I bet most employees were being paid far more than their true worth to the company.
No offence.
A web designer is only worth $50000/year if they bring in atleast $150000/year.
And I don't mean as a team.
I love Aeron chairs..but not everyone does. So what's the point of this? Wooo...people like different things!
Anyway, I inherited a bad back from my mom's side of the family. So I bought an Aeron chair for home and loved it. Yes, you ABSOLUTELY must adjust it for you, and you MUST get the right size. There is more than one! The place I'm working at now has them for everyone, and they aren't a dotcom. This is the second company I've been with (that wasn't a failing dotcom) that did this. So it isn't really a dotcom problem, people just like to say it is.
Also, after trying mine out for a while my mom got an Aeron too and loves it. No more back pain for either of us.