OK, this chair is SO not going to work.

[unixronin]

It's just too short for desk work.  I can't find a comfortable position for my legs, and I'm getting a stiff neck from looking slightly up at my monitor.

As it happens, I stopped by Office Despot last night for some quick price research on chairs, after picking up the replacement garbage disposal and circuit breaker that I installed today from Home Despot, and was interested to see that one of the chairs Office Despot had was identical to the ones we looked at in Costco the last time we were there ... except it was priced exactly $100 higher -- $199.mumble instead of $99.mumble.  You, too, can pay twice what you need to for the same product.  They had a $99 chair that looked like it might work, except for possible clearance problems between the chair arms and the desk that would probably necessitate taking them off.  Wish I could get Costco's $99 chair in the microfiber fabric of Office Despot's $99 chair, though....

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[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

i found a good one at kmart for about 40 bucks. the office depot next to my work has a nice chair for the same price

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I've had poor luck with "office" chairs in that price range. In my experience, they tend to be uncomfortable and break easily.

A previous employer bought a whole load of task chairs that they got a real great deal on, only $49.99 a chair. The height adjustment was a threaded stem going into a hard plastic bushing. If you adjusted the chair far enough up to be comfortable for an average-stature American adult, there was only about an inch of stem left in the bushing, which was made from a completely inappropriate plastic, and the first time it got a side-loading, the bushing crumbled and the chair broke. After the second time someone was injured by a chair that broke under them, the company threw out all the remaining chairs.

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

i know what ya mean, i broke the arms on the one i bought from office depot, the kmart chair on the other hand has been holdin my fat ass for over a year.