Chairs. Every office needs them, right? Personally if I am to be in front of a PC all day I know I want one. So why blog about chairs you might ask, and that’s a fair enough question. Well the answer is simple; they continue to come up in discussion at the office. Broken chairs, stolen chairs, missing chairs, borrowed chairs, old breaking chairs, assembling chairs… Chair problems! They just don’t go away!

In our office we have a range of chairs. We have the good old fashioned wooden stationary chair that is typically seen with an outdated dining table with the highly fashionable cross hatching vintage pattern on the material, we have the modern pink ergonomic chairs that are broken and tilting to the side (the most annoying thing to sit on in my opinion - not to mention its pink!) and we have the 5 year old typical computer chairs that tear the carpet up underneath them. There is also the modern, comfy cushioned chair that for some reason only has one wheel out of the five it is meant to. Where are the missing wheels? I can guarantee no answer to that question would surprise me.

My chair isn’t too bad, the pleather is wearing away big time, and the thing doesn’t even go up or down, but these things don’t worry me as I wear pants to avoid the itchy underlying material and it’s broken on my ideal height for the most comfortable PC usage. Win!

So apart from the fact almost every chair is broken in some form or another, the next issue is the fact people in the office seem to have the urge to take a broken chair if no one is sitting on it. Even if the owner had been sitting on it for the past 5 hours and they get up for a split second, you have a high chance of losing your seating rights. The fix for this (because whoever took it will not give it back anytime soon) is to a) steal someone else’s chair and continue this cycle of chair thieving or b) stand at your desk. And I’m not standing.

It’s almost a game that you have to play. A strategical and tactical game where experience and knowledge is key. You need to know what chair to take that you like, and who you will be taking it from. Some might say buy brand new chairs for everyone, but this wouldn’t be as fun, would it?