Rejected by Buzzfeed!? 15 Worst Chairs at The Stranger

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you hired the feminist ryan gosling lady?! i love you!!!!!! also, nice catch. also, did she go to school in seattle? also, does she want to be my best friend?

lucida c. on January 3, 2014 at 9:47 AM

My god, what are you monsters doing to your chairs?

I'm tempted to take up a collection to get Danielle a proper chair and dispose of those other sad pieces of garbage.

Welcome to Slog, Danielle, and I am so, so sorry.

MacCrocodile on January 3, 2014 at 9:48 AM

http://www.washington.edu/facilities/fin…

defman23 on January 3, 2014 at 9:50 AM

No wonder Strange ones love Dan's pot cookies and brownies. So this is why Megan and Cienna left?

Welcome, Danielle! (Thank all gods for Obamacare, looks like you're really going to need it! Oh wait, 2 words. Work Comp!)

despicable me on January 3, 2014 at 9:55 AM

Maybe we can take up a collection here for Danielle's chair. Heck, I'll driver her to Ducky's on Denny to pick one out.

Luckier on January 3, 2014 at 9:58 AM

Good god, my back hurts just looking at all of these.

laterite on January 3, 2014 at 9:58 AM

No wonder people complain about chronic pain injuries. Those chairs are all anti-ergonomic.

Get better chairs all around.

LMcGuff on January 3, 2014 at 10:01 AM

Cant afford chairs, but how many mac's do you have? Seriously, one mac pays for a dozen really nice chairs with proper back support. OSHA would be proud of your work environment.

Kinison on January 3, 2014 at 10:16 AM

Buying cheap is simply a tax on eventually buying the proper item. Case in point with all those $99 Office Max specials. None of them last very long and the damage they do is much more than any savings over buying a quality ergonomic chair to begin with. I know the Stranger isn't exactly a gold mine, but really…get some proper seating before you're all lining up at the chiropractor.

SPG on January 3, 2014 at 10:22 AM

@8, If you do the math the Mac is usually a better value over time if you count support costs, productivity, longevity, and resale. Much like a good chair is also a value proposition once you count longevity and worker injury.

SPG on January 3, 2014 at 10:24 AM

@8 - You can still write and publish a newspaper standing up. It's possible, but not nearly as easy to do the same without a computer.

MacCrocodile on January 3, 2014 at 10:29 AM

@8: nice office chairs are actually several hundred dollars. any chairs that make it to UW surplus are probably about 6 months away from degrading into the chairs on this list. but those inflatable yoga ball chair things (#14) are $30-50ish and good for your core if you don't mind being made fun of by the unenlightened. ;P

HOW COME MORE PEOPLE AREN'T FREAKING OUT ABOUT DANIELLE where my feminists at

lucida c. on January 3, 2014 at 10:29 AM

@12 I KNOW RIGHT?!?!? freaking out!!! i am, at least.

Anna Minard on January 3, 2014 at 10:31 AM

@12 - I'm hoping for a post giving her a better introduction than "Here are various horrible things that can happen to her back and butt."

MacCrocodile on January 3, 2014 at 10:34 AM

So the 15th is the no-chair? (I'm quick like that.)

rob! on January 3, 2014 at 10:36 AM

Jesus, you slobs need to clean your office the fuck up

ryanayr on January 3, 2014 at 10:38 AM

Before pot legalization, the Stranger offices looked more like Google's. What liberal policies have wrought.

Cracker Jack on January 3, 2014 at 10:51 AM

@ 12 is right. The really awesome ergonomic LEAP chair is ridiculously expensive, but I was able to find one years ago on Craigslist. It was one of about six at a local art school, and interoffice squabbling about who would get them apparently was resolved by deciding nobody would get them, and they sold them for $200 each that way. Eight years later and we still use it at home. Everyone should have one. In a just world, the feds would subsidize their sale.

Matt from Denver on January 3, 2014 at 10:58 AM

http://www.lni.wa.gov/Safety/Topics/Ergo…

wisepunk on January 3, 2014 at 11:12 AM

So that means you want the hammock, right?

Will in Seattle on January 3, 2014 at 11:26 AM

As if we were not already horrified by the condition of the Stranger offices.

Theodore Gorath on January 3, 2014 at 11:27 AM

Those are OSHA violations, every one of them. Threaten to phone 'em in if you don't get a decent chair -- ALL of you. Office chairs don't have to be that expensive -- Leap, Aeron, that shit's for douchebags. You can get an adequate office chair from frigging IKEA. Or Ducky's on Denny. Or Boeing Surplus. That's just plain not acceptable.

Fnarf on January 3, 2014 at 11:29 AM

@22 - I think posts like this are designed to cut down on the number of unsolicited submissions they get. "Careful," these posts seem to say, "if we like your stuff, we might just hire you. You can have Cienna's old coffee mug."

MacCrocodile on January 3, 2014 at 11:39 AM

At The Stranger, you work your way up through the crappy chairs. Gotta pay your dues. These used to be the intern chairs.

floater on January 3, 2014 at 11:39 AM

Welcome to the shit-show, Danielle.

If I may be so rude, a request: Please, don't be like Frizzelle. Break long posts and put the majority behind a jump link.

Knat on January 3, 2014 at 11:47 AM

Awesome hire with Danielle! Great job Stranger. I look forward to all her writing. <3

raku on January 3, 2014 at 11:58 AM

Funny that you would have this post now. Late yesterday, a client came in and we chatted about the ACA and his grown daughter. Then he told me her back/health problems were a result of working at a San Francisco newspaper with a horrible chair and uneven floors. Despite constant requests for a better chair, better office or permission to buy her own chair, if she wanted the job she had to deal with the conditions (including closet-size office, poor ventilation, lighting). She got so physically miserable she got an attorney and sued and won $$$ and they weren't allowed to fire her.

Litigious world or crummy employer? you decide.

Bugnroolet on January 3, 2014 at 12:03 PM

Standing desk.

treacle on January 3, 2014 at 12:09 PM

I can't believe one of the Libertardians or Republitrolls hasn't come along yet to make a "joke" about unionizing The Stranger over the bad conditions.

But fucking chaos, how big are your offices that you can afford to have this many broken chairs getting in the way? Somebody needs to organize a dump run.

ScrawnyKayaker on January 3, 2014 at 12:15 PM

@28 is right... or, consider an adjustable stool.

Armrests are entirely unnecessary, as are backrests, for any 'true' feminist.

NotSean on January 3, 2014 at 12:20 PM

For as paper that prides itself on progressive worker's values this really is not cool. Buy some new chairs.

M. Wells on January 3, 2014 at 12:43 PM

I once lost a job in part because I turned down my boss's offer to buy me a new Mac... and asked for a better chair instead. Priorities, people.

Endash on January 3, 2014 at 1:14 PM

An interesting follow up Slog post: Have an unpaid intern take a smell test of all of the chairs and match them to the appropriate journalist.

sprflycat on January 3, 2014 at 1:28 PM

@ 22, those options are okay, now that they can copy LEAP and build them cheaply so you have to replace it every five years or so. Add to the landfill, unless they're compostable (which might be the case with IKEA chairs).

Matt from Denver on January 3, 2014 at 1:32 PM

To be clear, Danielle didn't choose any of those horrible chairs. She chose this horrible chair.

Christopher Frizzelle on January 3, 2014 at 1:40 PM Stranger Staff

I used to have one just like chair number 12. Eventually I cannibalized a bunch of wheels from a compatible chair and was able to pop out the ones that wouldn't roll and put in ones that would. I don't have the chair anymore, and I don't think I have the set of spare wheels, otherwise I'd send them your way.

the other one on January 3, 2014 at 2:04 PM

That is the saddest looking bunch of chairs I have ever seen. Lazy-boy recliners and wireless keyboards for everyone NOW!

morealex on January 3, 2014 at 2:33 PM

there are crack dens more inviting than the stranger office.

Conrad McMasters on January 3, 2014 at 3:47 PM

This one is only $5! So gorgeous: http://www.washington.edu/facilities/fin…

Josh Bis on January 3, 2014 at 4:34 PM

Let's see if I can thread-kill with this:

http://gizmodo.com/5157354/boy-killed-an…

The slender part of the compressed-gas cylinder exploded through the cheap fiberboard underneath the seat and caused severe internal injuries.

rob! on January 3, 2014 at 4:48 PM

The Stranger office is filled with useless garbage, suprise suprise.

Cascadian Bacon on January 3, 2014 at 4:58 PM

There are so many reasons to be disgusted with Boeing it is hard to know where to start, but let's go with the closing of Boeing Surplus Store! To the rescue, sort of, is the Weyerhaeuser surplus store in Federal Way. They post items regularly on Craig's List. here is a link: http://seattle.craigslist.org/skc/fuo/42…

collingswood on January 3, 2014 at 5:42 PM

I would choose number 4 and put holey but clean socks over the arms. That's what I did with a similar chair here. Worked great.

NOP_Spinster on January 3, 2014 at 6:36 PM

Kee-rist, every time you post pictures of the office I cringe. It looks like an episode of Hoarders staged in a garbage dump. Maybe next year's holiday charity challenge should have a "dig the Stranger staff out of their squalid work environment" theme?

Hernandez on January 4, 2014 at 2:45 AM

God lord, how does the office not have a horrible bed bug problem...It looks like it's furnished with shit found after the torchlight parade!

Also why the hell do you guys find it so funny that you treat your employee's so bad. First it was look at our unpaid labour!! Now it's look at our unsafe working conditions!! If the Times posted something like this Goldy would give himself a hernia blogging about it...Seriously stop this shit, it's not cute.

j2patter on January 4, 2014 at 10:35 AM

13 cracked my shit up. And welcome, Danielle!

NaFun on January 4, 2014 at 11:25 AM

There's a chair on the side of the road up on like 24th Ave NE around 80th st that looks better than any of those. It's been there a couple weeks, but still...

dwightmoodyforgetsthings on January 6, 2014 at 1:30 PM

You know, if you disassemble those chairs, piece by piece, you might be able to sneak them out with Blick's garbage collection.

Joel_are on January 6, 2014 at 7:41 PM

You guys, there are at least seven chairs at The Stranger that don't totally suck balls. Give me a world that wants to see people bragging about their okay chairs and I'll give you that world back again. What a boring world.

totallycarey on January 7, 2014 at 9:42 AM

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