I broke my chair...

[Victoria J]

...and when he comes back from holiday I'm going to have to explain to the manager.

I'm embarrassed because I think everyone will think it's a fat thing. In fact it's a fat AND stupid thing, which is worse.

I was on the phone, I lent back in my chair. This is stupid. it's really stupid if you're heavy. It's really really stupid if the chair is a wheeled office chair. It's really really really stupid if you are also just in front of a 4 steps down to another office.

So I lent back, the chair pitched. I feel forward, the chair fell backwards down the 4 stairs and when I picked it up instead of 5 wheels it has 4 and this completely shattered leg.

I was on the phone to my mother - (which is Ok as I was working past my normal hours and that is allowed) - and explaining the CRASH and the SCREAM was quite difficult.

Luckily there is a spare old chair, which we haven't been using because it's a bit dingy and stained. I prefer that to trying to get another one. I'm not going to push my luck. I don't think they'll make me pay for it (though they certainly could) but I'll try and get some upholstery cleaner instead and make up for the destruction by using it on my replacement chair and the worst in the waiting room.

My manager will either be furious, or amused. No predicting.

Victoria J

[iradney]

Since you weren't, oh say, moshing around the office and swinging the chair against walls, and it was an accident, your manager is an ass if he tries to make you pay for a new chair.

[Victoria J]

My manager is an ass. (It seems to go with being a manager). But not that sort of ass.

Victoria J

[greek_jester]

So long as you're ok, that's the main thing. You're lucky you fell forward instead of down the steps with the chair!

[Ironclad Alibi]

I have experienced a lot of broken chairs at the office. I became very adept at salvaging parts off discarded chairs and rebuilding them.

[Victoria J]

Mainly OK - bruised arm and VERY bruised ego.

I saw the manager for the first time today and he hasn't said anything... but I'll have to ask tomorrow as we need to get rid of it.

Victoria J

[jiarby]

Here in the US you would sue the employer for providing you a shoddy chair, and take a few months off with pay while getting treatment for your injuries! They'll settle in 6-8 months for $25k

[ShadowTiger]

Something oddly similar to this actually happened to my friend recently. He was talking on the phone while sitting on a stool, restocking a few nuts and bolts at the same time, while tipping over the stool with one leg on the key desk. The stool tipped over, and he fell onto a dolly (That exact one actually.) someone had placed there and didn't want. He went rolling, head and legs/feet up in the air, into the bathroom against the back wall where one of the managers (Luckily, the coolest one.) had just finished up in there.

M: "So what's the story now, W?"
W: " ... I don't know.."
M: "So which way are you going?"
W: "Probably back out, I hope."
M: "Mm, would be nice." *Steps over W and back out to the office nearby*
W: ".. ugh." *collapses body entirely onto the dolly and the floor*


I can't believe I had witnessed such a thing. We were laughing and laughing...