• @dexa_scantron@lemmy.world
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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.

      • @barsoap@lemm.ee
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        4 months ago

        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.

        • @Vampiric_Luma@lemmy.ca
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          34 months ago

          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.

    • @onion@feddit.de
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      44 months ago

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

  • Maco1969
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    524 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.

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

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

    This is what I like about 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.

  • @grue@lemmy.world
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    134 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.

  • volvoxvsmarla
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    64 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.