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Updated, 16.18
BORD GAIS has today taken delivery of 380 deluxe office chairs, each costing several hundred euro – just four weeks after being granted permission to raise gas prices by 22 per cent.
These photographs, taken by reader Alex French this morning, show the chairs being unloaded in their dozens off an articulated lorry outside Bord Gais Energy’s new premises at Warrington Place, along Dublin’s Grand Canal.
The chairs are from Herman Miller’s Aeron line – with pricing (in North America at least) starting at a cool $970 each.
In one photograph, exactly 100 chairs are shown stacked outside the building, ready to be brought inside – while in a previous shot, dozens more were already crowding the lobby having been unpacked.
Meanwhile, the truck delivering the luxury ergonomic chairs is pictured holding dozens more chairs – with hundreds more being brought inside the offices.
This afternoon a Bord Gais Energy spokesman said the company had bought 380 of the chairs, as it was fitting out its new premises ahead of a staff move next week.
The company had issued an EU-wide tender for the supply of the chairs, it said, and bought them from an Irish supplier at a “significant” discount.
While Bord Gais Energy declined to say how much it had spent on them, TheJournal.ie sourced a quote from the same supplier that BGE had used – and who said a similar order would cost almost €300,000.
The chairs are delivered just four weeks after the Commission for Energy Regulation gave it clearance to raise gas prices by 22 per cent – an increase which fell short of the company’s demand for a 28 per cent increase.
Three months ago, the company confirmed that 115,000 domestic customers were in arrears on their accounts – while government stats showed that over 1,600 customers had their domestic gas connections cut off in the first half of 2011.
This afternoon a Bord Gais Energy spokesman said the company had bought 380 of the chairs, as it was fitting out its new premises ahead of a staff move next week.
The company had issued an EU-wide tender for the supply of the chairs, it said, and bought them from an Irish supplier at a “significant” discount.
This is the public service, make no mistake. This is the world the unions and the self service live in day to day. Its not the world of the average Irish person. Its not the world where resources are limited, where you have to budget and check whether you can afford an essential, or pay a bill.
Its a world where €1000 chairs, bought with our money, money taken from parents of children, from the budgets of the disabled, are the norm and an entitlement.
Its about time people in Ireland stop this BS that “its not all of them”, “I’m sure they are hard workers”, “you cant tar everyone with the same brush” and wake up and smell the coffee they’re drinking & your running out of due to cuts, ignore those in the street who engage in this conduct, refuse to serve them in shops/pubs (a la Seany Fitzpatricks local pub making him leave) and make them the pariahs that self serving parasitic disgraces of citizens deserve to be held out as. No more.
The majority of these public servants shouldn’t even be sitting in the building, never mind on 1k chairs, they (in the real world) would have been sacked long ago for their lack of performance. As an aside as these are ergonomic chairs designed to resist back stress (therefore injury – I know I have 1 for that reason, paid for by me 2nd hand) will we now see a corresponding reduction in work related back fatigue absenteeism. No we wont.
These people aren’t public servants. They are semi state employees. Big difference. They haven’t suffered any pay cuts at all unlike the public service
look if you are going to rant you might as well be correct, these folks are not public servants, they are semi states employee’s of a company that made €119m profit last year.
Indeed i am incorrect. They are indeed semi state. My apologies for the error. As for a rant, how dare you. This is money taken from irish people who are struggling and juggling to make ends meet. The fact they made a profit of 119 million during that recessionary year tends to show that the perception of utility costs to both residential and businesses is too high. Just because someone screws you more isnt a reason to laude the practice. Would you be so happy if AIB announced the same profit using your money?
Furthermore the MO of public service (ask FAS who are/where their next door neighbours on the same street), civil and semi-state is still the same thanks to unions & workers with a sense of shocking entitlement to unrealistic & in this economy, inexcusable conditions and perks. They are, IMO, one and the same. A different label on a group doesnt necessarily differentiate it from another. Just like rebranding ESB networks or FAS nothing really has changed beneath the surface. Its putting lipstick on a pig
yes and how did they make that profit ? semi state what the hell difference does that make still a state monopoly who get to make their own prices and spend our money what a bunch of crap a semi illiterate moron could make a profit with that much swing by the way sorry to any semi illiterates out there not your fault the powers that be put greed before education and i am a father of 5 and struggling to pay college fee’s books etc and also secondary school uniforms books etc cut their budget let them survive on their own feet and see what type of chairs they buy
if it wasnt so much a kick in the face it’d be gas.
absolutely no recession for these, glad I jumped provider last year.
I’m changing provider today.
Let them eat cake!
We mustn’t stand for this.
We must sit in comfort!
Meh, just another straw on the camels back. People will complain but nothing will happen. They’ll all get pay rises and bonuses at the end of the year. They’ll have their christmas party, then in march ’12 they’ll lower prices by 4% and in september ’12 increase it again by 15%. Then they’ll all get new expensive desks, we’ll complain but nothing will happen. They’ll all get pay rises and bonuses at the end of 2012. They’ll have a christmas party, then in march ’13 they’ll lower prices by 3% and in august ’13 increase it by 16%. The CEO will be caught using company money to hire call girls, we’ll complain but nothing will happen. They’ll all get a new CEO, pay rises and bonuses and two Christmas parties for ever and ever and ever. That’s the Irish way. If you’d like to change it then don’t vote for Fianna Fail, Fine Gael or Labour ever again..
hahah ! SOOOOOO true !!
I completely agree but you know what? If you said you voted for none of them in public you’d be a laughing stock. People are so narrow minded and blinkered when it comes to politics in this and many other countries. If you said you voted for anybody else all these narrow minded people would look down on you in the same sort of way they would look down on gay people.
And Bertie Ahern gets two secretaries that nobody can fine but I believe their name are Mary and Bridget Houdini !
@Mel. Not to mention the €200 per month for Bertie’s mobile phone! Two secretaries and neither can arrange an economical package for him!! Anyone notice how much better paid these two “employees” are compared to his former secretary, the unfortunate Gráinne Carruth, who was grilled about his money affairs at the tribunal. She was paid pittance.
So when they are ringing you demanding you pay your bill at least you will know they’ll be sitting on nice comfy chairs
Let them eat luxury chairs!
That’s gas…
Looks like the units were purchased in the UK. I don’t suppose the units were manufactured here either.
You can’t buy Aeron chairs in Ireland, there aren’t any distributors here. And that make and model goes for £670-odd from the official distributor in the UK. Not quite â¬1000, definitely over $1000. And while there’s an argument that if you spend the day sitting down working, that Aeron chairs aren’t such a horrible investment….
@Mark, you can buy Aeron chairs in Ireland & there is an Irish distributor for them
I’ve seen one or two on sale in places, Alan, but not 150 – you’d need to buy from a distributor for that, so one or two in the window doesn’t count. And who’s their distributor here? I looked a few years ago and there wasn’t one – you had to order in from the UK, and google still doesn’t turn one up today.
So, it’s the ideal unit to sit in all day.
I don’t know if anyone has noticed the rubbish you have to sit on/in (if lucky enough to get sitting) in our A&E units and hospitals around Ireland.
Yeah, but employees can sue employers under Irish law if they are forced to use the kind of seating that sick people in A&E have to use…
(Gotta love this country, you really do, or else you’d leave it and let it go to the wall…)
@Mark
Go to http://hermanmiller.com/Worldwide then select europe, then select Ireland & Northern Ireland
I could name them but I dont think that the journal should be used to promote them in that manner.
These chairs would have been shipped directly by the manufacturer to bord gais, the “eire” on the label is a dead give away, after the order was placed with the Irish supplier, No office supplies dealer or distributor would hold anything like that amount of stock in Ireland, and even the (very few) domestic office supply manufacturers now build to order rather than stock hold items
Why didn’t they purchase chairs from Humanscale which while not cheap either are at least supplied and assembled here in Ireland
…i have decided I am not reading the news anymore, the Journal included, am just getting more and more down with it all and my motivation is just being sucked outta me … seems I should have just joined the public sector and not gone for x amount of degrees and training, all paid for by myself, I feel like an idiot to be honest…
Hi John
I understand your frustration. However, would your conscience really allow you to swap places with these bloodsuckers?
As angry as I get about what goes on in the public service and semi-states, I’d never join them. I’d rather have my self respect, thanks very much.
You’re not the idiot here.
John Barry, I feel your pain. I truly do. The following ‘light bulb’ notion came to me last week. There are now 4.8m people on this island, according to the last census anyway. There are just on 1m people working. Now, maths was never my best subject but I realise that, as I am working, I am carrying nearly 5 more people with me on my wages. Are you catching what I am getting at? For every one person working, there are nearly 5 more not! Makes me so MAD.. Not using the media for info won’t do you any good.. hold your head up and be proud.. we may be a minority but we’re not the only ones!!
Melanie…. be mad, it’s fustrating…. most pple are feeling the pain….but again it’s just not as simple as you say…. each working person not carrying 5 pple each……roughly…the unemployment rate is 14% – (44-450,000 on social welfare). According to the last published figs from the census…… the pop is 4.5m….allowing for recent fluctuations….1.6m labour force….1.2m are children to 17yrs…retirees account for 1/2 million pple. The rest….either spouses of pple working & supported by them….or able to support themselves….small amt institutionalised & some students…..many of the retirees on pensions they’ve worked for…..many of the 5 (?!) you talk of are carried by themselves, their spouses or their parents not to mention VAT & all the indirect taxes everyone pays.
Reading this I just fell off my 50 euro Argos chair.
I worked in a private company that had 1 of those chairs, it was for the CEO and apparently he paid for it himself. It was comfortable but hardly worth €1000. The idea of spending €100,000 on them sickens me.
I also worked for a private company where every employee (about 200) had one of these. Plus there were several more (50 ) spare in the conference rooms.
I have to say, they are comfortable for extended periods.
I worked in a private company a few years ago, with a few hundred employees, and every desk had one of these chairs, and there were plenty of spare desks with empty seats beside them. In addition, the disaster recovery centre had another bunch of empty desks with spare chairs there, just in case of – well – disaster.
Without reference to the cost of the chairs, I have to say, they are lovely. Much better than the (perfectly serviceable, much cheaper) chairs I’ve had to resign myself to since leaving that company.
But, hey ho.
changing provider asap. jerks.
A price hike and now thay get chair price at €1000 to sit there well paid ass on. Ireland is just one big joke.
I blame the regulator.
How, pray tell, can the regulator be held accountable for the purchase order issued for chairs?
Off with their heads
I you fired the incompetent and greedy management we could save thousands on chairs for them. As for Mark’s argument above about quality and longevity, if you think these clowns are going to keep anything for 10 years you are delusional.
It’s not my argument, thanks. That’s why it’s quoted and why I provided the link to the original argument. I didn’t say I agreed with it, I just said there was an argument for them.
But hey, why let the truth stand in the way of a good rant?
If the company made 120million profit, it’s difficult to say the management are incompetent, surely?
No, the manegement are VILE. While the most vulnerable in ireland are deciding whether it’ll be nicer to starve or to freeze to death this winter, a STATE OWNED COMPANY is making obscene profits and buying 900 quid chairs?? We should burn their damn chairs to heat the homeless shelters
Its the ELECTRIC CHAIR these wasters and their Unions should be forced to sit on !!
Profit-making company spends money on comfort, health and safety of employees. I don’t really get the problem. Isn’t this exactly the kind of thing we’d like employers to do?
If you’re changing your energy policy on the basis of their chair choices, you’d be (presumably) paying more in order to support a company which doesn’t treat its workers as well, which is bizarre.
We have these chairs in our office and for sitting at a computer all day they are very comfortable. Perfect back support and sitting position. The difference after sitting for a whole day in an Aeron chair and a regular office chair is ridiculous! With regards to ergonomics etc, they are very much the best chair you can get and no doubt saves on missing days due to back pain etc.
They are expensive, that’s for sure, but they are definitely worth it. We’ve had them in our office for 10 years and they are still as good as new. You get what you pay for….
if you want to be comfortably in the job be comfortably at your own expense not the tax payer,s
Bit of a weak arugment there in fairness…. It’s a semi state company, so the tax payer does not fund all of it.
Would you buy your own office furniture in the company that you work for? Ridiculous statement…
the classic get out clause to fool the public let,s put the word,s semi state in front of company then we can fool who we like, and yes i do i have my own company without any state backing but still been ripped off by goverment red tape the statement does not look so ridiculous now and i don,t get to sit down on the job either
Please learn how to use an apostrophe there will ya.
Pay your bill and they won’t be ringing.
Im not on gas thank god but i do pity those who are
Are the chairs motorized to help the staff get around the office faster and thereby, carry out their work quicker? Or maybe, they have an inbuilt ‘toilet’ to save time on loo breaks? No, I know, the chairs have in-built speakers to help the staff zone out when somebody calls, in tears, saying they can’t meet their bill….
This is just completely outrageous.
I expect they paid no more than 600euro each probably a good deal less if they had good purchasers. Also expect to have the chairs on a 5 year guarantee so they should last longer than that (possibly even 10years) . considering the staff using them may need to sit in them 40hrs per week it’s not a bad deal, they’ve good ergonomic support and capability. there’s a lot of bad makes of office chairs out their and if BGE decided to buy cheap ones they’d end up costing the company a lot more in health expenses and absenteeism in years to come.
Furious !!
Geldof was so correct over 30 years ago when he penned the lyrics for Banana Republic,such a pity that the song remains the same.When are the people of this country going to wake up and smell the coffee !!
There is another way to look at this. Maybe they have been sitting on crappy chairs for years, I know from personal experience that a poor workstation environment can lead to serious health issues. Specifically back pain & absenteeism as a result of back pain. Of course they may have been able to get a cheaper chair than the one they bought but you also must consider that they should have gotten a bulk discount too.
Bord Gais is one of the few semi-state companies I would like to work for, they seem to be working on some innovative projects & I would say that productivity levels would be higher than average for state/semi-state companies. Again just to say that I’m not tarring every individual in semi-states as low productivity, there are people that work really hard & it’s generally those people who tend to get upset the most at these comments & respond, if you are worked up enough to get angry about this comment on low productivity then it’s probably not directed at you!
Having said all that a 22% rise is ridiculous, I know gas is tied to happenings in the oil industry but wars/revolutions, etc. seem to be going the way of the western world. The rise doesn’t make sense so it’s no wonder people get worked up about things like the chair purchase.
…likewise, arranging it this evening when I get home…sooner the IMF come in and deal with them all the better…
Two years ago my office chair came adrift of its stand. A spot weld broke – too much leaning backwards. I welded it again and so far so good. I call call it being thrifty. Does any public organisation need to buy several hundred expensive chairs at one one time in Ireland today? What an example to those facing difficulties with fuel bills.
Same thing happened to me twelve or so years ago – spot weld on the chair broke while I was leaning back stretching in my chair, the back of the chair fell off, and I fell backwards onto the floor from the seat. If I’d fallen more awkwardly, I could be writing this from a wheelchair. If it had been someone who was pregnant, they could have lost the child.
Now, how much can you sue a company for if that happens on their office chair because they bought the cheapest thing in the catalog or did an amateurish repair of their broken chairs in-house?
Aeron chairs are way too far to the other side of the pendulum swing, agreed, but you have to agree with not buying the cheapest thing available. It’s not so much a comfort/status thing as it is a health and safety issue for the employees.
Hey Mark Dennehy. IF is the middle word of L IF E !!
Yeah Mel, but “Compensation Lawsuit” is the middle word of “Modern Ireland”…
…and if spending €60-80k on chairs prevented losing a seven-figure sum in a subsequent lawsuit, most companies would consider it a good investment. In this case, the job was done stupidly and too much was paid by an order of magnitude, but the idea was understandable enough.
Mark I’ve just walked by this building a few moments ago and the sight of all the over specified and expensive fixtures going through the door is very deflating.I’d take my chance in court for the further exposure of the wanton waste that still prevails on this Island.People in secure well paid jobs have still not grasped the reality that the country is in financial free fall and as it said in the circus advertisement on many an occasion.
ITS COMING TO A TOWN NEAR YOU.
That’s not quite what I was pointing to Mel – you wouldn’t be the one going to court, you’d just be the one paying for it.
As bad as it is to see lots of money being spent on stuff that looks trivial, think how much worse it would feel if lots of money was spent on solicitors and barristers when someone sued a state company because they were injured at work because the company didn’t spend money in the right places and someone was hurt as a result, whether through acute or chronic injuries.
And yes, Aeron chairs were a daft choice, there are chairs for less money which are just as good, but they’re not the €50 specials from the viking catalog – you’d be looking at €250-350ish for a decent office chair that someone will be using for 8 hours a day, 220-240 days a year. But it’s not a shocking extravagance to pay that much for a chair that gets that much use – it’s like spending a lot of money on your bed isn’t a waste, because you spend a full third of your life in it. Think of it as money invested in insurance against lawsuits (which the company – and the state in this case – would have to pay for) and future healthcare costs from RSI and poor ergonomics. It’s insurance that wouldn’t pay off in most cases, but the few it does pay off for would make it worthwhile.
The idea’s sound enough, it’s just that Aeron chairs aren’t the right way to do it. As everyone’s said, someone just googled “best ergonomic chair” and took whatever the first solution was. Right now I’m sitting in a Sidiz T50 with lumbar support. Total cost €360, about half the cost of the Aeron’s and it does exactly what the Aeron does. If they’d bought something like those, I’d say that it was actually a good idea rather than an expensive mistake.
We have those chairs in our office. Very good chairs for office work.
What about the story that Bord Gais is believed to be in discussions to buy the naming rights for the Grand Canal Theatre at a cost estimated to be around €400,000!!! ‘The Gasworks’ – or whatever – would be a clever name as it was originally the site of teh gasometer in Dublin, but have they gone completely mad with money? They are a semi-state body for goodness sake! Pat Rabbitte needs to stop their gallop.
You pay for the gas you use what they do with the money after you pay them is nothing to do with you,
Was your comment a wind-up?
We have those chairs in our office (private company)… great chairs for long hours of work, so not quite sure why Bord Gais need them
Some how I connect this article to all the expensive stuff thrown out in gaint skips when SR Technics closed down. Eventually those chairs will end up the same way.
I paid for at least 3 of these chairs!
I use this model for the last 2 years – perfectly fine! http://www.vikingdirect.ie/a/pb/Office-Chairs/Executive-Office-Chairs/Malaga-Executive-Office-Chair-Leather-Look-in-Black/pr=QD8&id=3261822/;jsessionid=0000Ke4w641lv0MdKQwjYhrt1Yn:130mi7fsh
@David > I bought the same chair almost 5 years ago. Apart from a small crack in the ‘leather’ underneath my knee, it is in perfect condition after constant use every day for hours on end. Not bad for â
Hey Hugh, why don’t you use your real name? ashamed?
Wow are we getting free chairs when we pay our bills on time?
@David > Nope, I just happen to enjoy my anonymity.
I hope these are gas lift chairs.
If this is just the chairs, how much have they spent on desks, PCs and even toilet paper. Won’t be given them a penny, but maybe a CV
i tought with Enda, Eamon, all this was going to change I no they have not ben in power so long but i think it is time we saw some changes taking place, it does NOT look that way so far
These guys have been in Power for over 30 years and know exactly what is going on.
Dame Enda has been a sitting TD since 1977 and
Eamon Giveover has been a TD since 1984.
No excuse for there behavior and silence can you imagine if they were in opposition and this happened.
I don’t get why people are complaining about this. They are a semi-state company. Semi being the operative word. If people are unhappy and think these hikes are paying for luxuries and not because their own costs have gone up, they can always find another energy supplier. Nobody is holding a gun to their heads.
It does seem like a waste of money but it also seems like a waste of time complaining about this when the banks and more importantly the HSE (both of which our taxes effectively pay for) are giving bonuses and big expense accounts to their bigwigs well the taxpayer is not getting what they deserve.
Bottom line…..if we are going to complain about something, lets complain about something worthwhile!
Don’t see much surprising here. It’s exactly what you expect of quasi-state companies who have no grasp of reality. The government and its agencies are the biggest ripper-off of the public, apart from the banks and the property crooks. Always were. That they were stupid enough to be caught flaunting the profligate spending to the public gaze only adds insult to injury. The root of the problem is lack of accountability and transparency. Private firms are accountable to shareholders who get angry when profits are squandered. Bord Gais, ESB, CIE etc forget that the public are the shareholders and treat us with contempt. That’s for the Dail to deal with, but they are apparently no better either, judging from the evidence of events for the last few years..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeron_chair
They have good taste fair play to them, there’s one of these in the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection.
I wonder which one of these arseholes googled “Best Office Chair” and decided €2000 x however many chairs they ordered was god value, another few cents per m3 of gas should cover it….now what will i order from the catalogue next!
Well by all the comments here today Id say when they sit on those chairs they will certainly have red cheeks !! But not on their faces !!
@ Jimmy O’Brien….Jimmy, Jimmy . jimmy….there you go again, correcting everyone, ever tried to write a worthwhile comment yourself, it would make a nice change and try to be a little more positive and a little less bs
Ah, but he was right!!
All these CEOs and people in higher management should convene a conference somewhere in Ireland. They should discuss issues like (1) How much more money can they rob the people of this country of. (2) How long will the people put up with this treatment of “Higher Profits For The Company’s V Higher Bills For The Customers” This country of ours is a joke, they are still bowing to the power of the profiteers and the banks. “Marching on the streets is the way forward”
Hey Noel they do this already and then retire to the Shelbourne or its likes to laugh it off while the rest of us sleep it off !
Hhhmm…. the thought comes – I wonder what happened to the ‘old’ chairs
probably still in some sort of serviceable condition…
Having worked for a year sitting on a very uncomfortable chair & recently got an ungrade (to a v nice one from Viking for 169 euro)… I can relate to the need for comfort when you work at a desk all day. If you work with a chain saw you would be required to wear protective safety gear, similarly a decent chair protects your back. However this could have been achieved on a much smaller budget.
I am happy to say that I have no dealings with Bord Gais and feel so sorry for those of us ‘trapped’ into using ever more expensive energy souces (gas & electricity). It is rather sickening to think of people who will have to make tough choices between food and heat when this kind of flippant spending happens.
Clearly, the money that they spent on these chairs won’t have reduced the coming price hike but surely any sentient & humane PR person would realise that spending like this would cause ripples. Why not buy the chairs cheaper and set up a fund to help those who need help with their bills?
They recently set aside over €25 million for writing off bad debts.
Most likely the old chairs are being stored with the absolutely useless Electronic Voting Machines and the Electronic HSE payroll machines in a warehouse that’s costing Gazzillions of Euros yearly !!
the old chair,s probably in storage with the voting machine,s remember the gang
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@ mel devlin.bertie,s secretaries have ejector seat,s that,s why we, re still waiting
Gas!
my motto ” buy nothing new…re-use, recycle, gumtree, freecycle, etc. and if you HAVE to buy new buy irish!
can i have the old chairs please?
not long ago saw renovation of a church in bray, co wicklow, they threw all the old benches into a skip and put in new high-backed benches, and the church says it’s broke???/
i was furious. spending money when it doesn’t have to spent whilst the man who wrote to irish times can’t feed his kids. immoral.
i saw a bookshelf advertised for 6k in an irish glossy mag today, waitig for the doc, and then a plate for euro 50…are we stark raving mad?
I’ve just remembered that The Electric Picnic is on this weekend maybe we could convert all these chairs to Electric Chairs over the weekend and burn there sorry asses on there return to Bord Gais. Another note of interest is I happened to pass this building everyday and besides the chairs I would say the building comes at a high price,bran new never used and looks beautiful.
What’s wrong with the chairs their comfy pensioned arses are on at the moment ??
SURE THEY NEED SOMETHING DECENT TO PLANT THEIR FAT ARSES ON WHILE THEY ARE SENDING OUT THE GROSSLY INDECENT BILLS TO THE HARD PRESSED CUSTOMERS .and the threatning letters and fines if you are slow to pay due to your financial circumstances created by the wastage of public money in the purchase of these chairs for fat arses in the first place.
It is high time the people took to the streets,State companies and a hand full of men in the Dial are ripping us off and we not mind.
All over the world people take to the streets and take back what was robbed on them. But Ireland sit back give them a rise in wages and long holidays.
Is it silly to ask what they are doing with the chairs from the old offices? prob thrown in a skip somewhere.. even if they were only recently bought… Gas isn’t the word i’d use… but doubt it would get published… GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
But nobody would have complained about this kind of thing during the obscene excesses of the celtic tiger years
except me of course who arrived in 2003 in the middle of the party and thought…holy shit!
This issue is a total smokescreen. A valid argument can be made that buying a good durable chair that reduces back pain may be cost effective in the long run. But let’s not let this logic get in the way of irrational hyperbole. The real issue is the disturbance money that the employees are looking for. This is potentially costlier than some chairs.
If these chairs are so fantastic for these employees back posture etc then I presume from now on there will be a lot less people phoning in from back complaints !!!
Do your homework.. Ridiculous article.. Badly researched and lame
Anyone know who the supplier was? I badly need one of these chairs
word on the street is that they made a balls of their price hedging for their raw materials – here is the price chart over time, they will probably jack it up by another 50% soon
http://atoast2toast.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/chart.png
someone like Michael O’Leary should be running that place
Let’s get the watchdog. Who’s with me?
By the way
I wonder are those chairs gais filled?
Oh come on! There’s nothing the Irish nation loves doing more than bending over and taking it right up the Aras from utilitiy companies, the banks and shops (I’m talking about you Debenhams, Tesco, B&Q, PC World, and all the Irish businesses with their own price fixing!).
There’s a lot of talk about being p*ssed off about the massive and unjustified price hikes by almost all the utility companies but nowadays you can move to the cheapest. But will all these whingers do that and show BG that they can’t exploit the Irish people? Will they hell, it’s much more effort for the lazy morons that just moaning about it.
However, I’m not Irish and that’s why I moved my gas and electricity to the cheapest provider at the moment and if they become the most expensive, I’ll change again. I’ve also bought many things in Northern Ireland and if it wasn’t for those of us who did, the rest of you would still be paying the same prices as in 2007 for eveything!
Is this furniture for a new building or is it replacement furniture?
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