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Adjunct to long furniture discussion

#1 Post by ghostjmf » Thu May 15, 2008 5:21 pm

No-one has had a giant picture-tube monitor here for years & years; its all flat-screen LED stuff. But office-furniture vendors are still building people into tiny cubicles with wide, wide corners intended for a triangular giant monitor; they wind up as empty space with doo-dads behind the thin flat screens. Its not like "they bought a bunch of these cubicles & they have to get rid of them"; all this stuff is made out of pressboard, cut to specs. They can cut it any shape & size they want.

And having a desk lower than desk height but higher than good typing height, just so you can put a giant picture-tube monitor no-one uses anymore on it, leads to carpal tunnel syndrome, bad backs, etc.


Also, I've rarely seen anybody make full use out of those overhead shelves built into cubicles these days; they're advertised as "extra storage", but any time anyone gets up from their desk to take something out of that "extra storage", they pretty much hit their head on the "extra storage!" as they have very little room in which to turn.

People at home occasionally buy modular furniture where one piece snaps into another; places like Ikea, that make this stuff, are very careful to make it so it doesn't have to snap into another piece if you don't want it to. Whereas the cubicle-making office furniture companies sell people on stuff that has to share walls. They claim this saves money, but the furniture is so expensive to begin with that it really doesn't. I have said many many times that I could go to Ikea, or one of their competitors & get stuff that's just as "will arrive in a flat box & then you assemble it in place" convenient as anything you can order from a "real" office furniture vendor, but will look about 10 times as good & cost 1/4 to 1/5th the price. No-one wants to hear this, strange to say.

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