Is a White Kids Desk Overrated? We Argued About It
Nearly everyone here has landed on the same conclusion: the white kids desk is a bit of a con, a nice looking promise that lasts about four months before it…
The White Desk That Looked Simple and Wasn’t
Four of us have bought a white desk in the last two years, separately, without telling each other, which we found out about only when comparing delivery horror stories in…
Do You Actually Need a Touch Desk Lamp?
The real fight in this office isn’t about the lamp. It’s about what kind of person taps a metal base at eleven at night instead of just reaching for a…
The Small Desk That Looked Simple and Wasn’t
There is a small white desk that lived in a corner for four years and did its job so quietly nobody thought to mention it, and there is another one,…
The Industrial Desk We Didn’t Expect to Love
The argument was about whether anyone actually needed a desk that looked like it belonged in a Berlin coworking space bolted together by someone’s uncle. Half the office called it…
The LED Desk Lamp We’d Happily Buy Secondhand
Someone brought a secondhand LED desk lamp back from a car boot sale for four pounds, held it up like a trophy, and caused a proper argument that lasted the…
The Leather Office Chair That Looks Better in Real Life
One of us spent three years insisting the leather office chair was a mistake for anyone without an actual office, said it loudly and often, and has now quietly admitted…
What We’d Tell a Friend Buying a Gaming Office Chair
The delivery driver who dropped off the second one off said, completely unprompted, “another gaming chair, huh,” in the tone of a man who has seen this exact box arrive…
The Honest Story of Our Ergonomic Office Chair
Someone in this office bought a chair described as “editorial grade” and then spent three weeks adjusting the lumbar dial like it owed them money, and the rest of us…
The Executive Office Chair We’d Happily Buy Secondhand
There is a chair in the office that arrived secondhand from someone’s dad’s dental practice, allegedly, and it has outlasted three laptops and one entire operating system. Nobody remembers who…