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| 513.1 | This is what managers are for | CVG::THOMPSON | Question reality | Wed Apr 20 1988 13:47 | 11 |
| This is a real gray area I think. Usually DEC owned special equipment
is a matter of negotiation between CC managers. I've seen this happen
with computer equipment all the time. I know people who have taken
the same terminal from job to job for years. Usually the new CC
takes over the deprecation costs.
Seems like something like a medical related chair should happen
easily. The way I'd handle it is to lay it all out for my new CC
manager and ask him how *he/she* is going to handle it.
Alfred
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| 513.2 | There shouldn't be any question! | ARCHER::LAWRENCE | | Wed Apr 20 1988 13:55 | 17 |
| I also have an orthopedic chair which I 'carried' with me from my last office.
There were no problems such as you outlined.
Just a personal opinion - I think your current/last (?) manager is being really
unreasonable and should re-think this thing. Maybe going over his head to
a higher manager would help? Also, as the previous noter mentioned, asking
your new manager for help sounds good.
As far as I'm concerned, DIGITAL bought this chair for ME so that I could
continue working. Handing it over to a secretary who doesn't need it sounds
like gross extravagance (these things are really expensive!). What would have
happened if it had been a wheelchair instead of an orthopedic chair?
Good luck.
Betty
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| 513.3 | Old manager is not thinking about *OUR* company! | MISFIT::DEEP | | Wed Apr 20 1988 14:01 | 19 |
|
.1 is correct in suggesting that you let your new manager handle the
situation.
However, your old manager is not "doing the right thing" in my opinion.
Yes, _his_ CC paid for the chair ... out of a budget given to him by
_our_ company. His secretary does not have a medical need for that
chair, or s/he should have received their own.
The "right thing" to do, is for your old manager to let you have your
chair back, because if he doesn't, it costs the company more money to
buy you a new one. In exchange, your current manager should provide
as a replacement, the standard chair that is probably ruining your back
right now.
You think these kids would learn to share their toys! 8^)
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| 513.4 | oops! | MISFIT::DEEP | | Wed Apr 20 1988 14:03 | 6 |
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Sorry... .2 slipped in while I was writing .3 ... but just to be even
more redundant...
Ditto to .2!
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| 513.5 | | DELNI::SILK | serving time | Wed Apr 20 1988 22:03 | 14 |
| Actually, according to the nurse at our site, these good chairs
aren't any more expensive than the regular, uncomfortable ones.
(If we're thinking of the same types of chairs.) They all cost
something around $80 or so.
Our nurse tried to get our new building outfitted with them, but she
lost. Lots of us old and decrepit folks as a result have brought in
doctors' notes, etc. and gotten ADDITIONAL back-supportive chairs.
What a waste, huh? All of those "regular" chairs wasted, when they
could have bought some orthopedically correct chairs to begin with.
Nina
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| 513.6 | Y | VIDEO::TEBAY | Natural phenomena invented to order | Sun May 01 1988 05:50 | 19 |
| I will only offer what I know. All so called medical chairs
are charged to Health Services when bought. However, no clean
paperwork transfer seems to exist to transfer these unless they
exceed capital app. guidelines.
I have somewhat of a wealth(hearsay and personal) on this topic.
I do not worry so much about the chair as I do the job. Since
I have been declared handicapped because of trying to get work
tools which were prescribed by a doctor- I am very sensitive
to this topic.
IF YOUR BODY DOES NOT WORK-THAN YOUR MIND DOESN'T EITHER!
PLEASE-
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