What's your desk chair like?

Funny story. I have the office chair that was supposed to go to Al Davis, the now deceased owner of the Oakland Raiders.

Seriously.

One of my customers is a major office furniture manufacturer. Several years back they got the contract to outfit the NFL offices. Somewhere in that building is a conference room where there are two chairs in each team's colors around a massive conference table. So the company specially made 64 chairs for that meeting room, two each for each team, one for the principle owner, one for the General Manager.

However, the fabric in the Raiders chair had a few almost imperceptible wrinkles in it along one seam. It was decided not to ship those two chairs and to remake them, since it was such a high profile job. The two chairs got brought home by the plant manager and put in his massive (like four stall, three of the stalls double deep) attached garage. One night I was hanging out with him in his garage with some other people who worked for that company drinking beers. I asked them about getting a hook-up on a new office chair for my home office. I knew that that company had an employee store for items that just barely didn't pass quality standards, and told him I'd take whatever they had and gladly pay for it. He walks over to the corner of his garage, grabs Al Davis' chair, tells me the story, and sends me home with it. It is silver and black (not obnoxious, it's a mixed pattern so it isn't obviously designed to be for the Raiders), and retails for about $1500. I got it free.

 

I have a pretty basic chair that I got for $5 at university surplus. I like it because it makes me sit correctly and is very ergonomic for my neck problems. My previous chair wasn't.

 

I often use my ball.


But I do have a swivel chair that I spent $5.99 on a few years back, too.

 

My new desk chair at work is an Aeron chair ripoff. Sweet.

 

I just use a kind of generic chair from Staples, cost about $80, but I'm wondering if anyone has tried any of the 'balans' style chairs.

My dad has one of the originals and has used it as long as I can remember. He loves it, but Mom can't stand it. I think it might be good for posture.

At 110lbs, I don't need a really sturdy chair, in fact a lot of the more pricy chairs seem just big and cumbersome.

 

Historically my desk chair has been whatever cheap thing I can find. My current model actually came from an old workplace where they got new ones, so this one was being gotten rid of.

Lately my back's been kind of messed up, though, so I might use that as an excuse to get something fancy. I spend enough time in it.

 

Ergonomics is real.

Safety and Health Topics | Ergonomics