Health & Safety Nazis and chairs (longish)

Verdigris
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They're not for bad backs, y'know.

They're sex aids.

Rather nice ones <;-)

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While working at ERNO in Bremen it was deemed that all office chairs
with a 4 point star base with wheels on must be exchanged for 5 point
ones. Apparently it was possible, though no one had done, it to tip over
backwards and crack your head on something.

So all these brand new 5 wheeled office chairs arrived. The 'lift &
drop' adjuster which if you lifted up, took all the pressure out of the
air spring and dropped you down like a brick, was on the left hand side
under the seat, sort of 90 deg to the way you face. A solid bar if
thin-ish steel.

Now if you sit on the front of the seat with the balls of your feet on
two of the 'star' legs and while you are enthralled in the work on your
PC the heel of your left foot catches the under side of the 'adjuster'
you, the seat and the locked adjuster bar descend rapidly breaking your
ankle. You can't get up with the broken ankle and several people have to
lift you bodily up and force your foot out. It happened quite often in
the first week, then they changed them for chairs with the leaver at the
back.

 

Galileo... as as in the king of FocalPoint?

 

They all have them in Sarah's office, and she's not entirely impressed.

I think TOG should be having a fortnight off work with whiplash.

 

The Older Gentleman wrote:

Lovely.

On a related note, a friend recounted the tale of when a H&S bod came
to inspect some post-flood house repairs just the other day. The whole
thing has been one long, 5 months (and counting) nightmare, the stairs
being the latest installment.

Said stairs have been manufactured with each step being 10mm too long,
front to back. Instead of returning them for re-working the fitters
have knocked holes in the wall, floor, etc to make them fit. This
includes putting up support columns (one directly in front of a double
socket, rendering both unusable, one was slightly too short so they did
the builders equivalent of stuffing beer mats under it). In short,
there's more gaps than the bodywork on a badly modified nova.

As virtually every craftsman that has entered the house has fucked
something up the head contractors were getting a bit shirty that
everything they arranged was having to be done two or three times.
They tried to tell him that he was being too picky, he was finding
fault where there was none. He wasn't having any of it so they sent
someone from their H&S lot to have a look. Apparently said H&S bloke
left shortly after arriving, completely understanding their point of
view.

The bloke went up, started to inspect and then promptly fell down the
stairs.

 

"Bejesus - that's what they all meant bye fifty-tree feet!"

 

LOL

 

Well I like mine, particularly since I sprung for the "Posturefit" upgrade.
The only chair I've ever had that kept me properly supported and didn't shag
my back in.

Plus the mesh weave means I don't sweat in it during the summer

Too fucking right. I'm stunned he hasn't done a "Claims Direct" already...

 

Does Ms. Whiplash do whole fortnights?

 

On Thu, 19 May 2005 21:53:48 +0100,

Brightened my Sunday, that did.

))

 

Yup. I'm impressed that you can remember FocalPoint. I hasten to add I
had nothing to do with the PC end of things - I was a mainframe
programmer..

Phil.

 

Man, I use FocalPoint all day. It doesn't impress the ladies though.

 

<Shocked into silence>

But, but, but - it has *4* windows!

Phil

 

And one can zoom in and put them in pretty colours. I have dark blue
background and yellow writing. Dougie Howser style.

I am my employers FocalPoint King, if that's anything to boast about.
The only thing that does impress everyone (apart from knowing what a
computer is and how to make one work) is when someone's royally
screwed up a booking and I have to do magic things at super fast speed
in front of their eyes.

Hmm, time for a new job, I think.

 

You style rebel you..

Be afraid. Be very afraid..

I can just about remember the entry to do an availability.

Indeed.

Phil

 

Some people have a pink background with white text.

A24SEPLHRBKK*TG

 

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Yup.

In my younger, foolish days I was a TPF programmer. But I've grown up
since!

Phil.