Ergonomic at last!

[electricland]

So I have a desk next to a window. This is nice -- when my blinds are open I can see City Hall and the Skydome Rogers Centre and the bank towers and suchlike. I also have a bookcase which I have colonized with piles of paper. The desk is L-shaped, with the biggest, right-hand portion of the L next to the window and a smaller left-hand portion, with overhead hutch and lamp, against the wall. Picturing that? OK. I also have a fair-sized computer monitor which does not fit under the hutch (and I wouldn't want it to anyway because then I wouldn't be able to use the desk lamp). However, whoever set up the desk originally bolted a keyboard tray immovably to the left-hand part of it. Result: I spent a large portion of my days typing and twisting my upper body 45 degrees to the right to see my monitor, which sat in the corner of the L because there was no other place for it. (In fact, I often turned farther than that because my knees kept banging into the big complicated mechanism that keeps the tray up, so I'd tuck them over on the left -- this also helped ensure that my feet didn't get tangled in the mouse cord.) And whenever I wanted to get up close and personal with some papers on my desk under the light, the keyboard tray was in the way. Not, I think you'll agree, ideal.

Anyway, I finally got around to complaining about this a couple of weeks ago. It's taken a while, but the guy came yesterday to move the keyboard tray. This means that (a) I no longer need to turn myself into a pretzel to work at my computer and (b) I can use the lit-up part of my desk without either leaning way over or banging my knees on the keyboard tray.

Good times. I can feel my back straightening out already.

(Of course, the office door is now DIRECTLY behind me. Hopefully this will not result in galloping paranoia.)

Comments

[mrs-cake.livejournal.com]

You're so lucky. My chair is broken, my desk is too low, my screen is too low, even though it sits on two stacks of printer paper, and I can't stretch my legs under the desk :-( This office wasn't built for tall people!

Enough with the envy :) Glad to hear your back has been allowed to function again! Although maybe it's time to download some Bossman alert software. Heh.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Poor you! This is all Bad!

Mind you, I study the diagrams of the ergonomic office quite carefully and I can never tell how you're supposed to achieve it. I don't think it's physically possible. I really don't.

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

gah, that sounds like an incredibly convoluted way to try to work. glad it's already better. :)

[electricland.livejournal.com]

:D Thanks!