1) Ergonomically correct does not mean looks pretty: I get that it is all smooth and shiny with that elegant dark faux-wood look, but functional can be combined with pretty. Figure it out, before you cripple me.
2) Sure make me feel short: I understand that I am just on the cusp of petite, believe me, I know this well from shopping for pants. You don’t need to mock me with a desk that is slightly (a foot) too high, and a jacked up chair to compensate for this. Does it amuse you that I have to hop on and off my chair with wheels, an accident waiting to happen? Don’t you find it odd that with a normal, dare I even say ergonomically correct chair, I would not even be able to reach the keyboard or make eye contact with the customer?
3) Do I look like Mrs. Fantastic? No, I am not made out of a flexible rubber. My arms only reach so far. In what world is a two ton printer, two feet beyond where I could conceivably reach, wedged into a cubby, sound like a convenient placing? Certainly, not comfortable and certainly not ergonomically correct. I think I dislocated my shoulder yesterday trying to wheel the thing out of its little cubby.
4) I thought a desk implied a work space: But I thought wrong, because you designed a desk that does not have a space for my monitor and my keyboard to be in front of me. Thus I have to place my monitor in the corner, tilt the keyboard and set paper work to the far right. Could you make that more awkward and unnatural? Do you want to pay for all the massage therapy needed to fix my neck and back?
5) I’m sorry, do you even know the meaning of ergonomically correct? I would like to meet the person you designed the desk for, although finding such a mutant must be hard.
P.S. Please see attached billing for physiotherapist, prescription pain killers and billing for the cost of correcting the pretty new desk you installed.
P.S.S I have notified HR department regarding my leave of absence for the dislocated shoulder, kink in the neck and accidental spill from my chair.
P.S.S.S look up ergonomically correct in the dictionary. I expect a new, new desk upon my return from aforementioned leave of absence.
Written by: Nikki Albert © 2008 butyoudontlooksick.com