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You can always tell the people who have yet to experience a symptom of RSI. "Splurging"? A one-time cost of maybe a thousand dollars? For an employee whose val
by mechanical_fish 16y ago
You can always tell the people who have yet to experience a symptom of RSI.
"Splurging"? A one-time cost of maybe a thousand dollars? For an employee whose value is presumably somewhere north of $100 an hour?
If you can't raise the money for a decent desk by, say, the fourth month I think it's reasonable to question your company's future. Find cheaper office space, spend a couple of days consulting, pick stuff out of the dumpsters in back of a larger company, whatever, but get yourselves some decent tools.
- leftnode 16y agoUse doors for desks (a huge door desk might cost you $50 and 2 hours a Saturday afternoon) and spent a lot of money on chairs.
- timr 16y agoAs someone who has bad wrists from working on shitty desks, I can assure you that it matters. A good desk a fraction of an employee's annual cost. If you can't afford a desk, you can't afford to hire.
- pjscott 16y agoDamn right. Everybody who hasn't had a problem yet, take it from me: you need to worry about this stuff before you get an RSI. Please.
- prodigal_erik 16y agoA desk is just a sturdy flat thing, how can that go wrong? Did you have chairs that didn't adjust to its height?
- wahnfrieden 16y agoMost chairs don't adjust high enough to achieve a 90degree elbow bend with the average non-adjustable desk.
- wlievens 16y agoTypically the problem is that the desk won't adjust to my height.