Yeah, I need a new office chair. Mine is only a few years old, but it's started sinking now and then, which I really don't appreciate, so clearly I need to put a little more money into a better one, that will hopefully hold up to the use. Is that a vain hope? Who knows.
It actually started doing this at least a month ago, but it seems to be getting worse. I will say that it is mightily unnerving to be sitting, concentrating on work, and feel it sink down an inch, out of the blue.
Meanwhile, speaking of work, it's January, and the company likes to have "kick-off" meetings to start the new year.
So. Many. Meetings.
Last week, we had an hour-long CEO kickoff on Thursday, and a two-hour-long kickoff for the healthcare division (two hours over lunchtime, by the way, and cameras on, people, everyone turn your cameras on).
This week, we have an hour for strategic intelligence kickoff on Thursday, and an hour for people and culture kickoff Friday morning, and then today they sent an invite for a pharma kickoff---another hour, on Friday at 4.
Friday. At four. Before the long weekend.
Seriously, what the hell are they thinking? Even setting aside that absolutely none of this has anything to do with my job, what the hell?
I very much dislike meetings but they were very popular in education as well. I had a chair like that at school--a slow but steady sinker. I had to buy my own because the district wouldn't replace it but it drove me nuts. Luckily, I was never a teacher who sat for long in a chair.
ReplyDeleteAny chance freecycle.org might be a source for a chair? Someone moving away is how I upgraded mine unexpectedly. Best of luck.
ReplyDeleteAs for the meetings, if they have their cameras off can't you? Can you get away with knitting while they talk (and talk and talk).