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    <title><![CDATA[Discussion on Apparently my office chair was designed by NASA ]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Could you post a picture?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Sounds like a normal chair with a lot of adjustments. But am curious. ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[DadsPad]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:25:04 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sometimes It Takes A Bunch of Smart People]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I guess I've had too many experiences with chairs containing a half dozen knobs where 3 - 5 people spent a half hour figuring out how to adjust the height.  Of course, however, the training or group experimentation session would have been unnecessary if the chair company simply labeled the knobs to describe their purposes.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Wayne M.]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:15:30 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[NASA?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If NASA had designed them, they would have cost about $250,000 each, and wouldn't be adjustable.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jake@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:15:34 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Chairs can be complicated]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Witness Captn Kirk's chair and other captain's chairs on board the Enterprise.   What would happen if he didn't take the training course?  (&quot;What's this button?&quot;  - loud bang, ship lurches forward, phasers fire, shields snap on I remember some chair and you hit the lever and it drops a bunch.  Don't want people doing this and hurting themselves.  A five minute seminar is a good idea.  We are not born with instinctive knowledge how to run certain gadgets.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr Dij]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:26:12 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[If a bunch of smart people can't figure it out....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Then it is poorly designed...I got one of those fancy Aeron $1500 chairs at my last employer. No one had to teach me how to use it, and frankly you should be embarassed to ask. I can see a manual for someone having an issue, but please. Maybe it should be a test for thinning thr herd.BTW at my new job my old inherited chair broke and I, being a frugal guy, bought a $200 chair that has mesh like the Aeron. Danged if I can tell the difference.James]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JamesRL]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:11:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Office chair training AKA managed sitting around]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[OK, if there is some legal reason for having a compulsory sitting instruction then that is just one more for how lawyers are taking over every aspect of our lives.But I suspect that either the chair company, TR management, or both were sold some line about how having everyone attend an instructional setting would reduce the collective time spent fiddling with the adjustment arms and levers.I do know that some chairs have a counter intuitive set of features.  But I come from a long line of engineers (mechanical mostly, I am the dark sheep) and so I have never been challenged figuring these things out.  I have, however, witnessed otherwise intelligent people  struggle with rudimentary controls of chairs and other simple equipment.  But I can't see that having a mandatory training where most people will be bored and a few (the ones that will be asking questions later) will only attend in body while their mind is attached to their blackberry, will really save time.  Why don't they just produce a quick page with a picture of the chair and arrows pointing to the levers and stick it to the chair.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:00:57 -0700</pubDate>
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