Chairs. I have been working from home mainly for the past 3–4 years, so having a decent home office setup has always been important to me.
I have a nice adjustable desk. I ordered the base from autonomous.ai, but the tabletop is a 200 cm long IKEA Linnmon tabletop, because my wife and I work together a lot.
The chair I had been using for a long time was an IKEA Flintan chair. I bought it used from my old workplace for something like 15 euros. Bargain.
I used it for a long time, but as the chair got older, the seat was no longer the best. It became less soft over time, so I decided to change it.
I went to IKEA and bought a chair named Järvfjället. The strength of the mechanism was not adjustable, so after two days, I decided to bring it back to the store because my back had started to hurt. I got a different chair, named Markus. It was quite good for a while, but I noticed that my neck started to hurt in it, so after about six months, I gave it to my nephew and brought back my old Flintan chair.
I used it again for several months, but it became less good again, so yesterday I made my decision and went to IKEA and bought a brand-new Flintan chair.
I put it together yesterday and started to use it. It was comfortable to sit on, but it was not good to lean back in. The spring in it was much stronger than in the old one, and they changed the mechanism—the spring is not adjustable anymore.
I made my decision, and I decided to swap the mechanism of my old Flintan chair with the new one… but I am not able to do it, because they redesigned the entire chair. All the screws are in different places, so I can’t do it.
So now I have an old chair that I can’t sit on comfortably anymore, and a new one that I can’t sit on comfortably either.
I am pretty grumpy about it. F*CK IKEA, why change something that was working well?