• mmagod@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    a pneumatic table is definitely one of my must-haves this year… just so darn expensive

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    8 months ago

    We are kind of unique in our ability to sit on chairs, the majority of animals throughout evolutionary history have some form of tail. Imagine we meet aliens and every species is incapable of sitting on a chair, it’d make start trek look a little foolish.

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    8 months ago

    The thing I don’t understand is why it’s more popular to have motorized desks that go up and down instead of just having fixed desks at standing height and taller chairs.

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      8 months ago

      You ever fall off a barstool at a Chili’s when you’re gonna go piss because you forgot that the high tops where the only tables available?

      I don’t wanna bring that embarrassment to the office.

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      8 months ago

      Sitting on a chair that you can’t put your feet on the ground is extremely uncomfortable. Even if they have a bar to put them on at the base, it’s still a very awkward position

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        I can tell the person who asked this is short, short people seem to be used to this and don’t feel uncomfortable like that. At least, according to my wife. I always feel very uncomfortable if my feet can’t be on the ground.

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          Probably helps that their legs are wayy lighter though. Square-cube law strikes again.

          I actually like sitting up high, but I just tried sitting on my desk and I reflexively tensed my thigh muscles to keep my legs slightly raised. Otherwise the dead weight of my legs pulls me forward against the edge of the desk, which is uncomfortable. Maybe a short person can chime in with their own experience lol

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        8 months ago

        I worked at a standing desk with a tall chair that had a bar for your feet. I found it was downright perfect. But, every solution will have the lovers and the haters.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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      8 months ago

      Because of people like me who are much taller than the average person and would have a hard time using a set position desk that’s made for people between 5’4’’ and 5’9’'. It’s also bad ergonomics to sit so high your feet don’t reach the ground.

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    8 months ago

    I’d like a desk that would walk with me.

    This is what I like about a smartphones. I can just use it while walking around the room. Or at least while spinning on one of those rotating chairs.

    As a matter of fact, I am walking around in the kitchen as I am typing this.

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    I switched to standing-only at work about 10 years ago and it’s been great, except for a 2-year stretch where the cleaners in the building I worked in would somehow find a free desk chair and push it under my desk every. single. night. So every morning when I got to work there’d be an office chair sitting on my standing mat and I’d have to find somewhere to put it. I tried moving it far away, finding a chairless desk on the other side of the building, but somehow they kept finding me a chair I didn’t want and rolling it onto my mat. Eventually I got a little guest stool and would pull that over onto my mat when I left, and that worked as a decoy chair and kept them from adding a chair. Maybe this comic was about them.

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      8 months ago

      Afaik standing for long periods is also bad for your health. Frequently switching is where it’s at

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        Or just keeping the chair around. OP already said it: Guest chair. Actually you should have two for that purpose, it’s also not wrong to sit down to have your coffee.

        Pick your battles. Fighting with cleaning staff about this kind of stuff is like fighting with your grandma about whether or not you’re still hungry. Yes, yes you are: Shut up, eat, and fast tomorrow.

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          Janitor. Honestly it’s weird they’re moving anything at all, but notify the boss and they’ll notify the contract holder who will whip them into shape.

          Businesses spend a gross amount on janitors and it’s a cut-throat business. If they don’t want the contract that bad, someone else very much does. Nothing to lose but your sanity. ;P

          Worth keeping in mind if it happens in the future and notes don’t work.

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    8 months ago

    I miss the electric standing desk at my old job. It also came with this skateboard thing to balance on that was pretty nice.

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    8 months ago

    I swear my toddler is growing up to be Jim, she just plays standing all day. Hardly ever sits on the floor and the whole table-chair-concept is being ignored. Whenever she’s eating it seems like she belongs next to a food truck.