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I do sit a lot during my day job, but I can tell you that my sitting conditions are vastly more preferable than those of the typical high school student. I sit
by nilkn 12y ago
I do sit a lot during my day job, but I can tell you that my sitting conditions are vastly more preferable than those of the typical high school student. I sit in an $800+ chair, with a desk with more space than I need, next to a huge window. I can get up anytime I want and go for a walk or break.
In high school, I sat in chairs that often felt like they were going to fall apart, and my butt was numb or in pain half the time and sometimes my back too. The desk rarely was big enough to accommodate even just a book and a sheet of paper side by side, which was incredibly infuriating to me. Classrooms were typically horrifyingly dreary. And just getting up to stretch or walk around often wasn't an option.
- bane 12y agoEchoing all of this plus I'm left handed and every desk in every class I ever sat in was geared for right handed students. http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/student-desk-844709.jpg http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/student-desk-844709.jpg
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoI went to high school in the south (Mississippi) and north (Washington state); I can tell you the latter was much more accommodating to lefties than the former.
- pyre 12y ago> south (Mississippi) and north (Washington state) The whole concept of "North vs. South" is an anachronism from a time when most of middle-/western-America wasn't part of the picture. Washington state, while north of Mississippi, is part of the Pacific Northwest, not part of the "North." You'd be in for a rough time if you would expect (e.g.) Washington (state), North Dakota, Ohio, and Rhode Island to all have some sort of a normalized "Northern experience."
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoTrue. This was in the 80s/90s, maybe its better now, but Mississippi was like a third world country even compared to Tennessee, Kentucky, or some parts of Arkansa, while Washington definitely has better schools than next-door libertarian Idaho. On another note, no one is left handed in China, so I've had problems in Beijing with the inevitable right handed desk at work.
- eru 12y agoOr rather, they suppress all their lefties.
- pyre 12y ago> I sit in an $800+ chair, with a desk with more space than I need, next to a huge window. I can get up anytime I want and go for a walk or break. Truly a representative case!
- nilkn 12y agoIt's pretty representative of tons of professional workers I know from many industries and extremely typical in technology companies. Most high quality office chairs are pretty expensive; the Aeron chair that is used at so many tech companies is easily in that price range, depending on where you buy it (and in what quantity). Maybe the only thing that's slightly unusual is the window. If your company is not providing comfortable working spaces, then there are plenty of competitors which are. The real point, though, is that high school classrooms are often downright uncomfortable and unaccommodating. I'd rather stand all day than have to sit at those desks again for long periods of time. (And that'd be a lot healthier, too.)
- vacri 12y agoSo your rejoinder to my point is "professionals have nice working conditions"? If so, perhaps go visit a call centre. I've worked in one where the floor staff had less than a meter of desk space each. Or clerks in a crappy government department. Or try being a taxi driver. Professionals also have a nice salary that keeps their interest; rarely is it below median wage. These shitty places don't have a lot of acting out, and in my experience, most of those who do act out are either still in adolescence or not long out of it. Seriously, the reason why the adolescent demographic shows 'anger, disdain, and need-to-rebel' is not going to be solved by giving them aeron chairs and free reign to use the toilet. Crappy chairs in high school don't help, but to imply that they're the cause of adolescent acting out? It makes me wonder how far removed from your own adolescent experience you are, not to mention how many other demographics you're thinking of.
- wavegeek 12y agoCall centers are the archetype of a bad work situation. If you are aiming for classes to meet that standard, you are aiming very low.