We have recently found ourselves in a bit of a chair dilemma, which was easily resolved by buying some new chairs, but these chairs still had to be assembled…
Now for one person it would probably have taken quite some time to assemble nine office chairs, but we decided to take an exciting and fun approach to this: A chair building competition.
As if the exhilaration of competing was not enough, there was even prize money of R100 for the builder of the first STABLE chair (with no left over parts).
Each contestant got themselves setup with a chair-box on the patio, and on the word “Go” the race started.
I was not involved in the building myself, but thoroughly enjoyed watching how each person attempted the chair building process: Developers, QA and IT; each with their unique approach.
Some immediately sorted all the parts and checked the manual, while others jumped right in and started assembling.
After only a few minutes, we had our winner!! Our QA Manager, Orrin
Thanks again to all who took part in this – it was so much fun!!
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November 23, 2009 at 09:27
The Office Furniture Man
I Think this is a great website and I enjoy reading the comments. We had a similair experience we purchased 500 church chairs took us 3 days and approx 6 guys to assemble, to make the job easier we made up a couple of jigs. It was difinately worth it, in the end we saved around $6000 getting these chairs in knockdown form rather than have them delivered assembled.
August 25, 2009 at 09:22
Tyrel
Congrats Bro!!!!!
I always knew that building a chair was in your blood!!
Are you sure you’re in the correct line of work??????
LOL!!!!
Again, Congrats..
PS: I’ll give you a cookie for your victory.