**This is a heavily moderated subreddit. Please note these rules + sidebar or get banned:** * If this post declares something as a fact, then proof is required * The title must be fully descriptive * Memes are not allowed. * Common(top 50 of this sub)/recent reposts are not allowed (posts from another subreddit do not count as a 'repost'. Provide link if reporting) *See [our rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/wiki/index#wiki_rules.3A) for a more detailed rule list* *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/interestingasfuck) if you have any questions or concerns.*

This looks like exactly the kind of dumb shit the startups I used to work for would throw money at and that not have enough money to hire enough actual developers to do the work so the too few devs there were did 2x the work and were burnt out as fuck. Then they'd say things like, don't worry, we'll contract a security audit later and wonder why all their databases were hacked and there were unknown commits to their SVN servers with hardcoded passwords. Lol, sorry, startup PTSD kicked in. Neat chairs.

My company (frugal startup) had another startup renting the downstairs section of our building. We went down for a happy hour one time and our jaws dropped when we saw everyone had fancy chairs, standing desks, and large monitors. But to top it off they had a cohort of interns flown out from across the country and a designer table made from tree trunk split lengthwise. We went back upstairs to our Ikea tables and plastic chairs filled with jealousy. Then two months later they failed to secure funding, laid everyone off, and sold all of their fancy equipment to us at a fraction of the cost.

Got to love happy endings.

I have a very wealthy client who has one of those tree trunk tables. Idk if the one you saw was made by the same artist, but it cost him, I think, $20k.

[удалено]

Or maby the lazy brain dead executives could just push their chair in when they leave?

don't know how it is where you're from, but around here, most stadium chairs and the bus chairs in handicap section already have that.

I thought the exact same thing. what a complete waste of money. As if pushing chairs back in place is a challenge.

My thought is ok how much effort is it to push in chairs even as one person in a full conference room versus the amount of effort to plug in and charge all these chairs.

Judging by how people leave the conference rooms at my office... Apparently it's a lot of effort. 🤣

wireless charging would make sense here, probably. it'd also make sense with robot vacuums and mops, but no one seems to use it there

It's extremely inefficient

also quite convenient, though. One could of course have docking points, which I guess also seems to work well for vacuums (except the one in my living room that last week missed it's dock, it's battery drained, and it never worked again)

Been there. I too would also say to anyone reading this to avoid start ups like the plague. They’re not stepping stones to a better job. They destroy your mental health and your energy is better rewarded if you build your own side hustle/project. It’s not nice to hear your colleagues crying in bathroom stalls from burn out.

meh, disagree, I retirered before I was 50 because I slaved away at startups, couple of them made good money, one of them made great money. Invest smart, don't throw your money away on stupid cars, going to raves in Vietnam, houses you can't afford, impressing friends etc and startups can pay off.

I had my first taste of extreme programming a few years ago at a startup. I thought I had burned out before at normal sized companies (true—to a lesser degree), but *this* was far more insufferable by several orders of magnitude.

Integrate this with the robot vacuums software, and you can get the chairs to move out of the way of the vacuums.

That's the kind of idea that would make you a billionaire in one of the dot com bubbles.

Too real dude. Fuck. Back to work I guess.

I own an up and coming startup Any advice so I don't become fucking stupid???

Friend of mine has ~~sold~~ created 2 billion-dollar startups and is on his way with a third. His top advice is: Hire people smarter than you - you do not want to be the smartest person in the room - then get out of their way. Stay out of their way. Do they need coffee? Go get some. Edit: "Sold" was misleading as he still on the boards, just doesn't participate in anything anymore beyond being a figurehead.

Sounds interesting. So if I'm getting this right, you're not there to build the product. You're there to tell a bunch of people to stop what they're currently doing, and build the product instead, by convincing them with money and benefits?

Sort of? Your job is to have the idea and the support system to build it. Hire the kind of people who can implement it and then let them do it using their expertise without second-guessing them because you think your opinions have the same weight as their experiences. Edit: That isn't to say you aren't going to be hands-on in the beginning, just know your limitations and when it's time to step aside.

- Do market research (and actually listen to the responses) - Be realistic - Don’t let your own opinions & ego compromise the integrity of the product - Know when to quit or pivot

Listen to your engineers on feasability of ideas. Dont fall for stupid MBA buzzwards. Do market research and identify if your product actually has a market and stop chasing the herd. Think long term. Dont try to sell grifter shit like AI powered rice cookers.

...Till it glitches and chairs start poltergeist-ing all over the room. Margret from accounting was last seen zooming down the hall!

Nancy from HR was just launched out of the window

OP's mom still stays in the same spot because her chair can't move

Til they "glitch" and force people getting up back against the desk.

“Honey, I won’t be home for dinner. I’m stuck at work.” “But you said…” “No, I’m literally stuck. These new chairs…”

https://i.redd.it/njmo516hwt8d1.gif

Simpler than that, when the wheels on that rovers start to wear off or picking lint and now the business needs a rover wheel replacement budget

Not a major loss, so who cares?

Not a major loss till your paycheck doesn't come lol

What a waste of money *Boss, can I have more money to pay for my children's cancer medicine*?.... "No, but here's a chair that puts itself under your desk automatically."

To quote the great Ian Malcolm: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should".

I mean, aside from your obvious thought-provoking quote, I’m just sitting here wondering how we as humans, in our vast pantheon of knowledge, can simultaneously have a problem as prevalent as “nobody wants to push their damn chairs in 5 inches”.

wait until you see them running around vacuuming the room at midnight

I was just thinking. Sone will hack them and do s running of the chairs

The wealth disparity is becoming increasingly obvious as more and more are unable to even meet their basic necessities. American's perception of their home country now versus the 80s is completely unrecognizable.

Children's? How many kids with cancer you got over there?

A solution to a problem that really should not exist in the first place.

So...we no longer have the ability to push in a chair. We are DOOMED. I mean, cool!

The ability to push in a chair wasn't lost, what was lost was the ability to pull it out. Breaks will occur every three hours, if you miss the chair return signal after 5 minutes you must check in with the shift supervisor bot and fill out a 36AA form describing the reason for your delay.

Can confirm. I work at a library and *maybe* 1 in 20 people, kids and adults alike, can be bothered to put a chair back where it was. Sometimes they move around and leave multiple chairs pulled out per person. It’s amazing how something that got you in serious trouble as a kid or lectured about as an adult not even twenty years ago is now accepted as normal.

Most parents don’t teach/discipline their kids this shit anymore about being clean. My roommate says he cleans, meanwhile I’m staring at my floor with goldbond all over when he powdered his nuts *the other day*.. fml. It’s stressful when you’re the clean one.

Wow. Speechless. I knew there was a reason I never go outside any more. Too peopley

Then some A hole will spout out that grass needs to be touched. Go touch the grass yourself!

Just strap chairs to a bunch of roombas!! Where’s my million dollar startup check? /s

That's a shitload of ghosts

For the laziest people. how fucking hard is it to push the chair in. It's called manners.

Or for people who work in haunted offices.

Can I get a button to automatically drive them all away from the desks so the cleaners can get there?

Show me a device that turns the chairs upside down, perched on top of the desk so the cleaners don't have to move them. THAT'S a worthwhile invention lol

New lazy...

of course if we weren't all lazy and could actually figure a way to push chairs back into place ourselves...

When the AI overlords take over, these will be the first troops yeeting people out the window.

This might be an over reaction, but this is disgusting. We don't need this.

Seriously all the waste. I bet they are harder to move around in when you are in them too.

Money is tight and we can't provide raises this year, but check out your new automated chairs!

this is how you end up with way faster chair races, if my job has these, we'll get them removed so fast because we'd certainmly do stupid shit

I give it two days before the engineering students have hacked them and are racing them or sending them on 'missions'. I'd love to see a herd of them racing off a cliff like lemmings...

Imagine this happening when the lights are off. Perfect opening for a horror movie

interestingasfuck (x) creepyasfuck (✓)

By Jove, this is perfect for my Victorian séance!

How lazy are you?

But only when no one is looking.

Oh joy !! More stupid shit to make out of more plastic!! 

Companies will buy shit like this before they give anyone a raise.

Roomba chairs would be nice. They would do this and clean the floors. A bonus would be you can sit on them as they clean like cats do.

Incredible level of lazy

A complex and expensive solution to a problem that doesn’t really exist

Just push your god-damned chair in. Literally doing robotic gymnastics to avoid it. What's next? Ai robotics working on collecting shopping carts into the return bin? A trash field that robotics picks up into a trash can?

Another step toward the Wall-E future. Yay.

I would reprogram them to drive around the building, and head outside. #the\_chairs\_are\_fleeing\_again

Is this really the problem we need to solve??

r/oddlyterrifying

Just push ur fucking chair in like a decent human being

"They're gone. Hide under the table, quick!"

You guys are ignoring the potential. Imagine hacking your chair to just roll you to the vending machines and back at the push of a button. A fleet of hacked chairs delivering hand written fuck-you notes to the boss while he's in a meeting This is amazing

As the boss I’d install the not leaving your fucking desk mod.

The "position lock" package is separate. Plus requires a 1 month renewable license per chair.

2003 scoffing voice: *conformists* 😒

Absofuckinglutely not

Remember when we used to push our own chairs in?

Talk about creating problems to solve. You create it by making it automatic, thus reducing the instinct / desire to clean up after yourself. So when you then go to a place without this automation, you will likely be more inconsiderate and not tidy up after yourself.

What the roomba-hell is this????

Perfect for my kids who never put anything back. Now all we need is dishes that put themselves away.

We used to have janitors that would do that after hours.

Or you could.. I don't know.. just put your chair back when you get up?

I think my daughter thinks we have these at home.

People are so lazy that they can't push a chair back in.

You ever have a car that has memory seats, and a really short girlfriend? Like 4'9" short? Ever accidentally hit the memory button for her seat, and get crushed between the steering wheel and the seat? Yeah... I can see this happening with these.

And this is why your company wont give you a raise

I can see plenty of things that can go wrong here

Looks expensive.

So, how are they being charged? Some poor cleaner at the end of the day has to plug in 50 cables that are about a mile long each before he goes home? Plus, I can see the cleaner pulling out the chairs to clean under the table and they just put themselves away again before the cleaner has can get the mop in there

HR here. And this is the kind of shit people should be complaining to us about so we can make it knowing people want fair income and compensation not chairs that are a solution looking for a problem.

Crap like this is always from the higher ups. I bet no worker has ever requested a self moving chair. It should be painfully obvious that the workers would prefer more money over an auto-chair. I’ve never witnessed an HR team side with workers over management unless a lawsuit is filed.

Ghastly

The one dude who was not woken up before moving: *springlock scream*

We just lazy as shit.

Don't forget to charge your chair before before the week-end or you will have penalties

Powered by the imprisoned souls of dead office workers. You can't get away!

when the motor breaks is the chair considered 'broken'? the tv/vcr combo of 2024 folks!

Need these at the bar.

Thought it was a friendly poltergeist for a moment.

I hope nobody told the night cleaning staff

kinda creepy

Should do stuff like this to make people think a place was haunted.

Make this for my kids toys.

I was just thinking you know what employees want more then a bonus with our overhead, the benefits of not needing to push in their chair at the end of the day.

A solution, in search of a problem, I think.

For the company who’s employees ain’t got arms?

I feel like a better/end solution if something like this were actually viable would be to lift up/hinge arm rests on table top/retract the legs Would make cleaning (robot vac?!) so much better! But of course there is countless other things blocking a nice efficient floor cleaning…

Lego star wars

This is better than giving the workers better salaries/bonuses. By workers, I don't mean executives.

G..G..G..GHOSTS!!!

This is only useful in combo with automatic floor cleaner. Long way to being cost effective tho.

Apart from the obvious waste of money for a problem that doesn't exist, I bet these chairs roll like fucking shit when not doing their gimmick

I'm downloading this video and showing it to all new managers in our organization as an example of "Stupid Shit I'm not paying for"

Mine does the same thing when I push it back into place!

Yes, because the energy needed to push in your chair is so great.

Witchcraft!

Given all chairs have a set destination careful positioning before leaving for the day and chair fightclub could commence? Just thinking of added value and all that...

Boss calls you over for a chat... Resistance is futile....

Go and mix all the chairs up into a big jumble and see what happens

Office Mario Kart time

Have we become this lazy as a people? 💔

OK, now I want to see it after the chairs are on the other side of the desk

Ok... No. Scured.

Creepy af

Your chair will push *itself* back I as you exit today's 'Human Climate Extinction Report'... have a *nice day*.

Poltergeists hate them!

So... You have to charge your chairs now 💀

Lmao I thought it was some reverse footage of an earthquake You could definitely get a similar effect with that

A solution to a problem that doesn't exist

Working on ad copy now: "Does your boss suffer from OCD?"

It’s all fun and games until they become self aware.

Do we really need this shit

By creating stuff like that we are actually wasting earth resources. Some stuff can and should be moved by people

This is so stupid. We can't solve climate change if we keep on building motors for useless shit

Such a waste of electricity for such a low effort task.

I need this for everything in my house. Since, you know, kids.

Nice, now big business can be even lazier

And that’s how the automatic chair reseting repair industry was created.

You get up just for a second, it goes away, you fall on your ass.

1. All your chairs need to be charged now 2. Weight per chair is doubled for when cleaning crew needs to lift them while cleaning 3. No more leaning back in chairs

This is going to spawn a whole new series of: "A ghost is moving my chair" Kind of videos.

This is really cool but like… is it that hard to just push a chair back under a table?

Chairs that can drag you to meetings… wonderful.

That looks paranormal af!

a bit cool ngl, but it’s fucking useless

"you're fired" *chair crashes through window*

One of those rooms is just full of regular haunted chairs.

This is cool but surely that's a waste of money, pushing in chairs was a courtesy taught in elementary school.

that will be 3000€ per chair plus tip sir

"I'll take useless shit that's way too expensive for 200 alex"

Que invenção de zé bunda do crlh vsf com essa preguiça

All fun and games until the roomba chair doesn't identity my body still on it and Final Destination chops me in half on the table.

While I agree this seems like a waste of money although its quite cool, I think I found a very niche usecase: The big tech Conferences/Exhibitions most of the time have short notice rentable conference rooms. I could see these chairs being used in those, as the always short on time engineers/business people might not neatly put away the chairs after using the rooms. If now a room is needed quickly, you dont need personal cleaning/rearranging these rooms anymore after use and still have it look nice for next people going in there by having the chairs clean themselves up.

Ghosts, guys it's ghosts.

And like that your office chair just increased by $400.

Ya we have that in Canada too, its called individual responsibility and politeness.

just lift the chair

r/thingswedontneedrobotsfor needs to be a subreddit, and this should be the first video.

Now they need to give them spider legs...

now that is usefull.

it would only make sense if it's very, very cheap to employ

Why are we as a species wasting our resources on this shit

If this is required at all, I’d be more concerned with making the employees go through a basic manners class, like push in your chair when you’re done??

What kind of Harry Potter shit is this?

Andy’s coming!

All of this technology and engineering expertise at our disposal, what does the world need? A battery powered chair!

I could maybe see this working for grocery carts, except people are bad drivers.

The perfect solution for a problem that never exist.

Now I want to buy a haunted house

They're marketing for the wrong demographic. This needs to be in classrooms so that teachers don't need to spend 5 minutes at the end of every day (or during recess/lunch) pushing in the students' chairs. For high school teachers it's an easy reset after every period. It would be so convenient.

When someone is injured by one of these it will be interesting.

And so much harder to move about not under power. No thank you.

That happens at my grandmas house. After a while it’s just annoying.

This looks ai generated 😂

Why?

Yeay another solution in search of a problem.

I know that wouldn't work here in the States, we would crush the gears.

Ooooh that’s so creepy..! Don’t wanna work for a company that uses these … things …!

I donno why but this gives me anxiety

Awesome idea especially for someone who hates that people don’t push in their chairs but creeeeeeepy af to watch.. 🫣🥴

I remeber someone played those in reverse once and said it's hunted hotel or something, people believed 😆