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Via Flixxy.
I like the space savings.
But I perceive a conspiracy to confuse medical requirements with just-plain-laziness and desire to live a cloistered, possibly prodigal lifestyle. My enthusiasm would increase measurably if I were to be assured of some workable breakwater between those things.
Come to think of it, I have exactly the same concerns about medicinal marijuana.
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Clever people, those Nihonjin. VERY clever.
I’ll leave the snark about medical marijuana alone as we’ve been down THAT frickin’ path way too often. Well, except to say that a couple o’ bong hits and a U3-X would be most entertaining. And an iPod, too. Not so much an iPad, tho. 😉
- bpenni | 05/29/2010 @ 09:12I don’t see how this could ever fall under medical requirements. If you have trouble walking I would think you would probably have trouble staying on one of these things.
- Instinct | 05/29/2010 @ 11:15We have just a couple of people at work (out of hundreds) who do have a legitimate medical need for one of the huge scooters. Our cubicles are spaced sufficiently far apart that they can collaborate with others as needed.
I’m pretty sure we wouldn’t be able to take advantage of this to narrow the walkways any. But it does seem to get the job done. But I do have your question in the back of my mind, Instinct, I kind of wonder how a severely overweight person would stay up on it.
I expect if you have respiratory issues, it might be a better fit.
I know advertising in general works much better if you stick to youthful, healthy looking pretty girls. But the message that comes across is that laziness is what it’s all about.
- mkfreeberg | 05/29/2010 @ 11:24Good God.
Ok. First of all, I think you’ve made the perfect connection between this and “medical” marijuana – and just on that front, how long do you suppose it will be before marijuana is covered under “health” plans? Get ready for it, it’s on the way.
Second, I can pretty much guarantee these things will be classified as “health” devices almost as soon as they’re broadly available, one, and that there will be an astonishing number of people in your workplace who suddenly discover a “need” for such a device. Many of them, I have no doubt, will look just about like the models in the ad.
The other thing that will happen is that any accidents resulting from their use will see claims made on the company for damages. When I was at Southern Pacific several years ago, a gal brought in one of those kneeling “chairs” to replace her desk chair. When she (inevitably) fell off it, she successfully sued SP for several thousand dollars on the basis of an unsafe workplace. Really.
This don’t take a crystal ball.
- rob | 05/31/2010 @ 11:11