The Work Thread

[Too Old For This]

@macha Is color super important? Because I normally caution against getting knockoff brand chairs. The last three that I got all fell apart within 6 months of getting them, even the 'big and tall' versions don't really hold up to constant use for long. I know that money is SUPER tight but I also know you aren't going to want to spend $140 now and then another $200+ in June when the offbrand one starts to break down. There's one from a reputable brand that's priced pretty fairly, but its pink/white so I dunno if that's a dealbreaker.

[Macha]

@too-old-for-this I actually like pink and white.

[Too Old For This]

@macha So, the chair I've been using since.... March of last year (nearly to a year now, yay!) is from Fantasylab (subset of Killabee). They're largely touted for being a more wallet-friendly option to the Secretlab chairs.

This chair is the one that I got. I will say you WILL want a separate foot rest with this chair because it sits high off the floor, but nearly a year of constant, daily use of this chair and I am still sitting comfortably, my back is supported, my butt is cushioned, and I can even sit cross-legged in the chair (because I'm a masochist like that). It's rated to about 350lbs.

[Macha]

@too-old-for-this They have one that has a footrest, too!

[Too Old For This]

@macha Yep! But I still don't trust the attached footrest things. They're never long enough and they always seem two inches away from breaking off.

[RavenGirl]

I'm also someone who sits cross-legged on chairs, and finding ones without armrests but also had good back support was getting tricky. So my SO suggested one of these gaming chairs with the footrest (this is the one we bought). It took a little bit of getting used to, but now I love it to bits. I can slide it out and push the chair back to take a mini-nap, or slide the footrest against the cushion and use it as a 'shelf' of sorts for my feet when I sit cross-legged without having my knees banging against the armrests. My only issue with it is that sometimes I sit so far forward (especially if I am doing paperwork or art on my desk) that I accidentally tip the chair.

[Macha]

@ravengirl Interesting. They actually make the chair I linked, that I had settled on being the one I want to buy!

Also, I'm using my kitchen stepstool for a foot rest, and dear gods. Nope nope nope. I need something else.

[saosmash]

So now I'm back at work after a week out sick due to a fkn covid scare and it turns out I wasn't even positive I JUST HAD SOMETHING ELSE, and I'm behind on 2000 of everything, and even just looking at the automated task list in my case management software makes me want to go back to bed.

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[Solstice]

@solstice said in The Work Thread:

It took a massive case surge in our organization (which I hopefully? dodged), but I'm back to fully remote.

I'm ecstatic about this.

So that lasted all of a week. Our department head got furious at the notion that we wouldn't have butts in seats to, I don't know, plug in USB cords or something. So, back to the Covid farm, despite my company having a 20% positivity rate over the last 21 days.

Feel like I'm gonna cry. This is so nonsensical.

[Wizz]

@solstice

I'm really sorry, that would drive my anxiety through the roof.

[Solstice]

@wizz

It's not great. And we keep getting performative theater instead of actual action. They asked that less people come to the morning stand-up meeting.

Literally with a fraction of the positivity and a fraction of the cases, we were shut down in 2020. The amount of head-in-sand bullshit it takes to be putting a 'This is fine' hat on when we don't know the implications Omicron may have toward Long Covid, the very real danger to people who are immuno-compromised or have comorbidities is all just fucking galling to me. The only reason we're not shut down is because people got tired of the logistical changes.

I'm so beyond tired, so beyond furious, so beyond betrayed. This is/was the best job I've ever had, but their callous disregard for the wellbeing of their workforce is enough to make me want to slap my resignation down without a plan lined up. That's a fantasy, and I won't do it, but it squeezes the pit of my stomach in the exact same way.

Stop pretending everything is fucking fine.

Am I taking crazy pills?

[GreenFlashlight]

@solstice said in The Work Thread:

Am I taking crazy pills?

No. But your health and safety are impediments to your bosses making as much profit as they want to make, so they will command you to pretend everything's fine to remind you what your place is: silent and still beneath their boot.

[Ganymede]

@greenflashlight said in The Work Thread:

But your health and safety are impediments to your bosses making as much profit as they want to make, so they will command you to pretend everything's fine to remind you what your place is: silent and still beneath their boot.

Or continued operation is necessary for the business's continued existence, which means failure to adhere means everyone losing their jobs.

[Too Old For This]

@ganymede said in The Work Thread:

@greenflashlight said in The Work Thread:

But your health and safety are impediments to your bosses making as much profit as they want to make, so they will command you to pretend everything's fine to remind you what your place is: silent and still beneath their boot.

Or continued operation is necessary for the business's continued existence, which means failure to adhere means everyone losing their jobs.

I would agree, but @GreenFlashlight said they already sent them to be WFH already. Which means they have the capability of keeping people safely at home without damaging productivity. Continued operation does not require in-office attendance anymore, at least not for many positions. Which means someone higher up the chain is willfully ignoring the health risks to everyone for some antiquated idea that there must be faces in the office for productivity to occur.

[GreenFlashlight]

@too-old-for-this That was Solstice, not me. But otherwise, yeah.

[Too Old For This]

@greenflashlight Right! I... totally didn't derp my response at all. >.> <.< ((Thank you for the correction!!))

[GreenFlashlight]

@too-old-for-this No problem. I do that all the time.

[buttercup]

We are in the process of buying a business.

I can't wait I hate my corporate life like woah. I am truly not a good person in my role with my current run as a business operations leader (ahem Altice cough) who has had to do unethical things and spent many nights crying for the layoffs I forced on others for the sake of more profit. Among other things.

I'm nervous as we're spending a million. I am not as nervous as I know the business owner and their motivations to sell (near 80 and paralyzed) is genuine and they want an already profitable company to survive them. I have helped them with the business for free over the years as the owner faced many challenges with his disabilities. I've great ideas and innovations and the bank is excited and loves the business plan. We are currently awaiting the official third party business appraisal after a half a year of working to close this deal. We should get it back by the 21st and then we will schedule closing.

I just got the closing list from the bank of requirements to close and I'm working the list. It made it truly real for the first time. I'm likely done and out of the corporate rat race! At the same time it's scary running your own business. It made 700k profit in 2021 though. There are some challenges ahead but it's about as close to a sure thing as business gets. Yet I'm still nervous. Worried I'll fail and ruin my families future.

Excited too.

[Solstice]

@ganymede said in The Work Thread:

Or continued operation is necessary for the business's continued existence, which means failure to adhere means everyone losing their jobs.

I'm sure this is the case in plenty of for-profit sectors. For what it's worth, it's a non-profit that doesn't rely on sales of any kind and could operate on its endowment alone. They actually lose less money by people not being present.

So yeah, no out for them, there. It's entirely motivated by archaic 'You're not productive if you're not in your seat' wisdom.

[bear_necessities]

@buttercup I hope you are getting some kind of business valuation performed, as buying a company that made $700k in profits this year alone for $1 million is one hell of a deal.