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I ruined our startup culture because of office chairs
- MockObject 7y agoFrugality is a good value, except when applied to office chairs.
- cgherb 7y agoThe office chair thing makes it something people talk about which creates a myth in the employee culture about the crazy things the company does to save money. This myth is retold to other team members so everyone gets that the company cares about frugality. You probably wouldn't want to work with me and that's kinda the point of culture.
- cgherb 7y ago3 Good reads on what I mean: https://www.amazon.com/Under-Hood-Fine-Tune-Employee-Culture/dp/1591845025 https://www.amazon.com/Under-Hood-Fine-Tune-Employee-Culture... https://www.amazon.com/What-You-Do-Who-Are/dp/B07X36GGQ7 https://www.amazon.com/What-You-Do-Who-Are/dp/B07X36GGQ7 https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Life-Work-Ray-Dalio-ebook/dp/B071CTK28D https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Life-Work-Ray-Dalio-ebook/...
- theamk 7y ago> At Shine, 2 of our conference room chairs are broken.. I get frugality, but this is going too far. Staples sells office chairs for about $100, and these are certainly good enough for conference room use. Having broken chairs just shows you don't care and can't keep up with things. (plus it probably doesn't make sense economically either. You are likely paying over $100/hour including taxes - so if 3 people lose 5 minutes per day looking for chairs, you are losing $1k/month in labor on that)