The Office Chair

Posted on February 11, 2010 Updated on February 11, 2010

This chair is one of the most amusing furniture pieces you’ll see in the workplace. The yawns this chair induce are enough to form a yawning orchestra.

*Imagination break*

*yawn*yawn*yawn*YAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNN*

*Glass breaks because the yawning sound is close to the glass’s natural frequency, which causes resonance*

It makes you think that there’s a “sleepy” cloud over this chair and this chair only, because some employees concede that they may be so sleepy while seated in this chair, but the moment they leave it they’re so fresh and active that they are ready to go pump iron. This chair might explain the increasing number of gym enthusiasts among the employed.
*Imagination break*

Employee’s phone rings, “Hello?”
“Hello? Why do you sound this way? Are you asleep?”
“No, no, I’m at work.”
“Ya3ni just tell me, you’re asleep.”

People with sleeping-in-class experience won’t find this chair different from the uni chair, except that there’s no monologue to put you to sleep. The office noise is different, and consists of clicks, printing noises, people talking in different languages. So basically, the suffering is caused by two things,

a) You have to stay in this sleep-inducing chair for 8 hours because of the attendance policy as mentioned before.

b) There’s no monologue there to put you to sleep.

Working in this chair is not even efficient for some people, especially those who are used to working on a bed, and sleeping in a chair.

Someone once proposed to take the office chair home because her baby nephew kept on waking up in the middle of the night crying, so maybe replacing the baby’s crib with this chair might be the solution, what do you think?

But then again, if you’re working, do you still think?

Shown below is what I call a truly multi-functional chair, designed by Dutch designer Roel Verhagen Kaptein; a chair that transforms into a chaise, then a sofa, and then back again. Now if I started a company I might replace the office chair by this one. Of course, the sofa appears in the morning, and the chair at night.