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The cost of a good office chair is comparable to a top tier gaming pc, if not higher.

by corimaith 1y ago

loeg 1y ago
Are there any FANG employers unwilling to provide good office chairs? I think even cheap employers offer these.
- thenewwazoo 1y ago
  There are many that won’t even assign desks, much less provide decent chairs. Amazon and LinkedIn are two examples I know from personal experience.
- Aeolun 1y ago
  I think my employer hed a contest to see which of 4 office chairs people liked the most, then they bought the one that everyone hated. I’m not quite sure anymore what kind of reason was given.
kec 1y ago
Not for an enterprise buying (or renting) furniture in bulk it isn’t. The chair will also easily last a decade and be turned over to the next employee if this one leaves… unlike computer hardware which is unlikely to be reused and will historically need to be replaced every 24-36 months even if your dev sticks around anyway.
- varjag 1y ago
  Right, the employee with unlimited spend would want to sit in a used chair.
  - kec 1y ago
    That’s more or less my point from a different angle: unlimited spend isn’t reasonable and the justification “but $other_thing is way more expensive!” Is often incorrect.
  - oblio 1y ago
    An Aeron chair that's not been whacked with baseball bats looks pretty much the same after many, many years.
- SoftTalker 1y ago
  > computer hardware which is unlikely to be reused and will historically need to be replaced every 24-36 months That seems unreasonably short. My work computer is 10 years old (which is admittedly the other extreme, and far past the lifecycle policy, but it does what I need it to do and I just never really think about replacing it).
  - nicoburns 1y ago
    > My work computer is 10 years old... but it does what I need it to do and I just never really think about replacing it It depends what you're working on. My work laptop is 5 years old, and it takes ~4 minutes to do a clean compile of a codebase I work on regularly. The laptop I had before that (which would now be around 10 years old) would take ~40 minutes to compile to the same codebase. It would be completely untenable for me to do the job I do with that laptop (and indeed I only started working in the area I do once I got this one).

The cost of a good office chair is comparable to a top tier gaming pc, if not higher.

loeg 1y ago

Are there any FANG employers unwilling to provide good office chairs? I think even cheap employers offer these.

thenewwazoo 1y ago
There are many that won’t even assign desks, much less provide decent chairs. Amazon and LinkedIn are two examples I know from personal experience.
Aeolun 1y ago
I think my employer hed a contest to see which of 4 office chairs people liked the most, then they bought the one that everyone hated. I’m not quite sure anymore what kind of reason was given.

kec 1y ago

Not for an enterprise buying (or renting) furniture in bulk it isn’t. The chair will also easily last a decade and be turned over to the next employee if this one leaves… unlike computer hardware which is unlikely to be reused and will historically need to be replaced every 24-36 months even if your dev sticks around anyway.

varjag 1y ago
Right, the employee with unlimited spend would want to sit in a used chair.
- kec 1y ago
  That’s more or less my point from a different angle: unlimited spend isn’t reasonable and the justification “but $other_thing is way more expensive!” Is often incorrect.
- oblio 1y ago
  An Aeron chair that's not been whacked with baseball bats looks pretty much the same after many, many years.
SoftTalker 1y ago
> computer hardware which is unlikely to be reused and will historically need to be replaced every 24-36 months That seems unreasonably short. My work computer is 10 years old (which is admittedly the other extreme, and far past the lifecycle policy, but it does what I need it to do and I just never really think about replacing it).
- nicoburns 1y ago
  > My work computer is 10 years old... but it does what I need it to do and I just never really think about replacing it It depends what you're working on. My work laptop is 5 years old, and it takes ~4 minutes to do a clean compile of a codebase I work on regularly. The laptop I had before that (which would now be around 10 years old) would take ~40 minutes to compile to the same codebase. It would be completely untenable for me to do the job I do with that laptop (and indeed I only started working in the area I do once I got this one).