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Dick Margulis wrote:
>
> > Of course, if your company wants to shell out the bucks for an
Aeron, more power to
> you ;>)
My company buys them used. Our office manager knows a used office
furniture dealer who's always on the lookout for them, and lets her know
when he gets some in. There are a lot of them out there from failed
dot-coms.
>
> Am I the only person in the world who cannot sit in one of those
> contraptions? Every time I've tried to sit in one, I've felt like I was
> going to fall backwards and crack my skull open; I wrenched my back more
> than once in that instant panic reaction. Finally I learned to just pull
> up a side chair and push the damn Aeron out of the way if I had to get
> to some executive's keyboard for a minute.
If you're referring to it tilting back -- that's adjustable, too.
There's a lever on the left side with an icon of a person tilting (or
falling ;-) backwards. When you pull up on the lever, it limits the
maximum tilt to the current position. To release it (when you give the
user back their chair), lean forward and press the lever down.
These instructions are taken from Herman Miller's brochure, but you have
to download a PDF to get them from the Herman Miller site.
In the features-and-benefits table (which I don't think came from Herman
Miller), the benefit of 360-degree swivel is listed as "Gives you an
edge in office hockey tournaments", and for 2 1/2" hard, double-wheel
caster, it's "Rolls nicely on carpet or bare floors, also critical for
office hockey play".
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