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cellioA few days ago Dani told me that his company, for no particularly-obvious reason, was replacing all their office chairs, with the old ones to be hauled away...somewhere. Some of his coworkers, noting that their current chairs were in fine shape, asked if they could salvage them. The powers that be said ok, anything with a "reserved" sign on it wouldn't be hauled away.
A few minutes after telling me this he asked "do you want to have brunch Sunday at (a downtown restaurant)?". Sure, I said. A moment later I asked "are we fetching office furniture?" Why yes, he said.
So um, I said, if they were likely to have any spares... "I reserved two", he said. Nice.
So I have now upgraded my desk chair (not my computer chair, which is different), finally deprecating the desk chair I obtained from the Perq Systems fire sale for, I think, a dollar. Dani's company isn't dead, so I have hopes that this chair will do at least as well as its predecessor.
(I'm actually very particular about my computer chair(s), in contrast. When I started with my current employer I spent one day with my assigned chair and then went out and bought my own (which, to pass muster with the furniture police, had to match color). All our chairs have stickers on them with their designated locations (because sometimes people "borrow" chairs for meetings and aren't so good about returning them); mine has an additional sticker, "property of (me)", and has never been absconded with.)
A few minutes after telling me this he asked "do you want to have brunch Sunday at (a downtown restaurant)?". Sure, I said. A moment later I asked "are we fetching office furniture?" Why yes, he said.
So um, I said, if they were likely to have any spares... "I reserved two", he said. Nice.
So I have now upgraded my desk chair (not my computer chair, which is different), finally deprecating the desk chair I obtained from the Perq Systems fire sale for, I think, a dollar. Dani's company isn't dead, so I have hopes that this chair will do at least as well as its predecessor.
(I'm actually very particular about my computer chair(s), in contrast. When I started with my current employer I spent one day with my assigned chair and then went out and bought my own (which, to pass muster with the furniture police, had to match color). All our chairs have stickers on them with their designated locations (because sometimes people "borrow" chairs for meetings and aren't so good about returning them); mine has an additional sticker, "property of (me)", and has never been absconded with.)
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Date: 2013-02-18 12:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-02-19 02:02 pm (UTC)