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sigh I was an intern at Tellme, which used door-desks early employees had to build themselves. I built a desk in pretty much the same style as the Tellme desks
by wooster 14y ago
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I was an intern at Tellme, which used door-desks early employees had to build themselves. I built a desk in pretty much the same style as the Tellme desks (although structurally more sound… I can jump up and down on mine thanks to an extra 2x4), which were based on the Amazon desks.
My desk, which I have used since 2003, is a 30" x 80" x 1-3/8" hollow core white door, on four cut to order 27.5" 4x4's from Home Depot. It cost less than $50 to make and is a very nice desk. It took me less than two hours to build, from leaving my house to driving to Home Depot to building the final product.
My next desk will be a built-to-order sit-stand adjustable desk, but that's because I'm currently able to earn enough money (and am concerned enough about my health) to justify the cost. If I were still 23 and concerned about costs, I'd build a desk identical to my current one in a heartbeat.
- jjcm 14y agoAs someone who got a year out of those Tellme desks before we moved, thanks for building them. Goddamn they were sturdy.
- jonhendry 14y agoThe Amazon desks appear to be a particularly expensive implementation of a potentially cheap desk.
- nirvana 14y agoThe door desk is a lie. They claim it is cheap, its one of the company mantras like "its day one!" that are part of the ideology/cult that exists at amazon. It is part of their fraud (like leaking that kindle fire is a success via a PR firm, if they told lies in their annual reports it would be actionable, but they can commit the same fraud using a PR firm and get away with it.) Basically everything Amazon says is exactly the kind of lie that the door desk is-- it sounds plausible and in other contexts it could be true, but in reality, it is a lie.