Why is there is so much bad furniture? I’m not talking about bad style, although there’s plenty of that, but comfort.

Seriously, it’s not hard or expensive to make something comfortable. And yes, I mean being able include almost all body styles.

I learned what “ergonomics” was high school. High school! Is this too hard a concept to grasp? Holy crap! Do those designers actually even use their own creation? Of  course they don’t! If they did, they’d want to shoot the stupid SOB who designed them… as soon as the blood started circulating again and the pins and needles feeling went away.

And do decorators for commercial spaces ever test the furniture they buy? Again, of course they don’t! Hey I know I’m not going to be spending all day in the lobby/reception area, but come on! And you paid how much for this pretentious instrument of torture?! No wonder you have to lay off people!

Which brings me around to that new trend, “hotdesking.” Which means “we really don’t give a damn about you or your needs to get the task done we’ve assigned you.  Besides, doesn’t everybody type sitting on a backless stool with your coworker 3 feet away using the same phone that Bob (who has a cold) used? Think of it as the internet cafe! Now go close that million dollar deal. With cheap cafe furniture.”

And bad coffee as well.

What’s scary is that the human race has been building furniture for, what, a few thousand years?! And we still can’t get it right?

Makes me wonder how long it REALLY took to get the wheel right.