...crack.... ping

[jay]

While on the telephone today in my office... I heard these noises. And suddenly, part of my desk chair fell off. Metal fatigue, the bolts had all sheared cleanly. The chair itself... I received it new in 1992, and it is now badly worn and stained and non-ergonomic anyway. Time for some new office furniture. I guess no one will complain, after 16 years...

Comments

[elainegrey.livejournal.com]

I remember a friend visiting one of the accelerator labs i worked at, looking around, and saying, "Well, no one is going to claim you're wasting government money on furniture."

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Indestructible grey metal workbenches and desks with concrete tops, I'm guessing? Squared metal chairs with aged primary-color vinyl cushions? ;)

[elainegrey.livejournal.com]

I was thinking mainly of the squared metal chairs in what might be dark brown or dark green vinyl, but the duct tape was the main visible element. I think the desks were campus surplus from ages past: wooden with stuck drawers, etc.

[sisterfish125.livejournal.com]

*hee*
I wouldn't be so amused if I didn't have a lab chair (with a broken back--if I want my back to touch the back of the chair I'm laying down) that has a set of initials placed on the back of the back...

the initials are those of someone who LEFT back around 1990...

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(nods) my grey metal bookcase with swinging glass doors has a property sticker that says "US Housing and Home Finance Agency", which dates it back to sometime in 1947-1965...

Congratulations

[attitude-boy.livejournal.com]

You could have heard: ...crack ....ping ...thud. :)

Re: Congratulations

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(grin) very true. Although I nearly did fall, as I was leaning against the now-missing arm at the time.

[dangerpudding.livejournal.com]

I kinda miss the first aid kit that mostly expired before I was born. ;)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

That was the one that bruised my foot last week when I knocked it off the desk in the lab... still there. I guess gauze and iodine and band-aids don't *really* expire...

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

hmmm, I saw a twitter from compilerbitch that indicated that when she broke her really bad office chair, it was replaced with a worse office chair. I hope you have better luck. Or better chair-napping skills.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Our default replacement chairs come from Unicor, i.e., prison camp laborers...

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Wow... glad you weren't hurt, dear!