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Just realized my monitor height was set for someone 6 inches taller
I was at a coworking space in Austin last week and this guy tapped me on the shoulder, said 'your neck is doing all the work your spine should be doing.' I laughed it off but he showed me his setup, top of the screen at eye level, arms making a 90 degree angle. I went home and measured mine, my monitor was 4 inches too high and my chair was tilted back like a recliner. Now I'm torn between the school that says ergonomics is personal and the school that says there's a strict formula everyone should follow. I fixed mine to his specs and my shoulder pain from the last 6 months is basically gone, but I miss how relaxed my old slouch felt. Has anyone else gotten a rude comment about their desk setup that turned out to be totally right, or do you think this whole 'perfect posture' thing is overblown? My coworker still uses a laptop on a pillow and swears he's fine.
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simon_chen1mo ago
Six months of shoulder pain gone from just four inches is wild, like your spine was filing a complaint the whole time and you kept hitting snooze on it. The rude stranger thing is funny too, because if some guy in Austin had told me my neck was doing my spine's job, I would've given him a look and gone right back to my recliner slouch. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle, because that strict formula thing falls apart the second you're 5 foot 2 or 6 foot 5, but the basic stuff like screen at eye level and elbows at 90 degrees seems to help most people who sit all day. Your coworker on the pillow laptop is a ticking time bomb and he'll find out around year three when his neck starts clicking like a bad door hinge. Enjoy the pain-free shoulders and let the slouch live on in your memories.
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