Achey Breaky Back

Charlicat · 25th May 2007, 2:38pm

I get such a sore wee backy and necky at dull office job. It used to only come on after a few hours, but its getting worse and now within 20 minutes of sitting down it starts aching.

I was holding out till it cramped up completely and I could claim some money and go on long term sick leave but thats taking more time than anticipated so I was just gonna quit?

poprock · 25th May 2007, 2:40pm

Bitch to the company about your chair/desk/whatever. Your working position is hurting both you and your productivity. It’s their responsibility to look after your health whilst under their roof, etc, etc.

Charlicat · 25th May 2007, 2:42pm

I dunno. A better chair/desk can only do so much. I think that no matter what ergonomic rubbish they buy, you are going to get a sore neck/back if you do data entry for 5 hours solid. Quit it is then~! Thanks

Jaemi · 25th May 2007, 2:46pm

adjust your posture.

Helter Skelter · 25th May 2007, 2:59pm

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Originally Posted by Charlicat

I was holding out till it cramped up completely and I could claim some money and go on long term sick leave but thats taking more time than anticipated so I was just gonna quit?

Don't do it!

I've been on long term sick for 3 months now due to a bad back and I persevered for a year before I finally went off work.

The last year was the most miserable I've ever had and the last 3 months have been boring as hell so it's really not worth it.

Appart from anything else, it's really not worth dicking about with your physical health for the sake of getting some time off. I was eventually told that if I didn't take time off my back was a time bomb waiting to go off which could have left me paralysed from the waist down. It's really not worth risking things like that if you ask me.

Just get a new job. It'll make you feel much better in the long run

Charlicat · 25th May 2007, 3:10pm

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Originally Posted by Helter Skelter

Don't do it!

I've been on long term sick for 3 months now due to a bad back and I persevered for a year before I finally went off work.

The last year was the most miserable I've ever had and the last 3 months have been boring as hell so it's really not worth it.

Appart from anything else, it's really not worth dicking about with your physical health for the sake of getting some time off. I was eventually told that if I didn't take time off my back was a time bomb waiting to go off which could have left me paralysed from the waist down. It's really not worth risking things like that if you ask me.

Just get a new job. It'll make you feel much better in the long run

Oh goodness! Yeah, I think I will, because this was the alternative:

http://www.techsupportalert.com/neck-problems.htm

Every single article I've read has said "people were just not designed to sit still for long periods of time staring at a monitor.... so here's a product to use to minimalise the pain~!". How about if humans weren't designed to sit like that then just don't

poprock · 25th May 2007, 3:12pm

Aye, but that’s why you’re supposed to take breaks, do other tasks away from your desk to break up the time, and so on. Same as you should remember to look around, refocus your eyes every now and again, and all that sort of thing.

The Continental · 25th May 2007, 3:13pm

So that's what the get up to when they're not chasing Patrick Mcgoohan.

**LesMTS** · 25th May 2007, 3:13pm

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Originally Posted by Charlicat

Every single article I've read has said "people were just not designed to sit still for long periods of time staring at a monitor.... so here's a product to use to minimalise the pain~!". How about if humans weren't designed to sit like that then just don't

God didn't see the information age coming then, did he.
Not so omniscient after all.

Charlicat · 25th May 2007, 3:17pm

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Originally Posted by poprock

Aye, but that’s why you’re supposed to take breaks, do other tasks away from your desk to break up the time, and so on. Same as you should remember to look around, refocus your eyes every now and again, and all that sort of thing.

When you do data-entry, there is only the one task.

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Originally Posted by LesMTS

God didn't see the information age coming then, did he.
Not so omniscient after all.

Maybe God is just an anti-capitalist and is planting the seeds of dissent for the revolution.

**LesMTS** · 25th May 2007, 3:17pm

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Originally Posted by Charlicat

When you do data-entry, there is only the one task.

Posting on AN?

Charlicat · 25th May 2007, 3:19pm

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Originally Posted by LesMTS

Posting on AN?

There is a little box saying "Reply to Thread", and I enter data into it.

**GreatKingRat** · 25th May 2007, 3:23pm

Stand up while you type.

Helter Skelter · 25th May 2007, 3:28pm

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Originally Posted by Charlicat

Oh goodness! Yeah, I think I will, because this was the alternative:

http://www.techsupportalert.com/neck-problems.htm

Every single article I've read has said "people were just not designed to sit still for long periods of time staring at a monitor

But sitting on a giant rubber ball is supposed to make sense

Fuck that!!!!

Mulac · 25th May 2007, 3:38pm

A guy at my work sits on one of those. He's a bit of a nipple. I think it's the balls fault.