Airs of Sophistication

Often times, self-image and the related interest of establishing an atmosphere that belies that image are integral parts of finding the initiative to be successful in business.  This is particularly true in professions that have a rich and storied history that typically included sophisticated office furnishings.  Not that you necessarily be a lawyer, banker or any one of these “refined” vocations per se.  The freedom to give your office a touch of class and established stateliness can spur you to see your professional self w

ith a heightened sense of worth.

Office Furniture and More offers a wide selection of competitively priced office furniture products that fit the bill for the office that is looking to incorporate some of the grandeur of days past.  The view from your window may not be of a cobblestone street and gaslight lamps, but you’re free to use a quill pen if you wish.

The Kathy Ireland Nottingham Epic Secretary Desk is a perfect starting point for infusing some 18^th century English charm to the space.  Its swan neck pediment and urn finial suggest aristocratic refinement in the workplace as stylishly now as then.  A Stanley Corinthia File Cabinet is one with which you’d be hard pressed to find another so steeped in old world grandeur.

 Heighten the mood by writing with the aforementioned quill pen by candlelight at a Haugen Rolltop Scholars Desk that may well have you envisioning yourself as a modern day John Locke.  Allow a suitable amount of dust to cover the bound-leather texts tucked into your Pulaski Accents Bookcase. 

 The individual who wished to recreate the sophisticated airs of centuries past in their office is sure to find every piece to their liking at OFFICEFURNITURENMORE.

New Office Chairs and Waiting for a Carrot

A wave of familiar despondency washed over Phil as he resolved himself to the “mandatory attendance” line of the email reminding him of today’s apres-5 pm staff meeting. “Darn it” he said aloud, adding only half-jokingly to his cubicle neighbor, “Why don’t they make a video tape entitled “staff meeting” and circulate it among each staff member 12 times a year?” Half-jokingly might have been cutting it a little short; to call these corporate goat-herdings tedious and redundant would be an understatement. “If I stay here even five more years I swear I’ll be able to recite one verbatim” Phil thought to himself.

As the day, like any other, went by with enough of the same routine to make the forthcoming subject matter seem almost repulsive, Phil couldn’t help but brood about what lay ahead. At least an hour, likely more, of being sat obligatorily in cheap molded polypropylene stack chairs in a poorly ventilated room while being submerged in sales figures, projections, market trends, morale issues etc. etc. The fact that he had mastered the ability to feign attentiveness while football, fast women and faster cars crossed his mind was all he had going for him as five o’clock neared.

As he made his way down the hall with the rest of the keyboard peons, Phil mused to himself how much more open to these meetings he might be if there was something of a proverbial carrot on a string to look forward to. Who knows? A corporate retreat to a sun-drenched destination would be wonderful, but beyond unlikely. He would have been sufficiently satisfied with an arrangement along the lines of a $100 gift voucher to Hooters and tickets to a Chargers game for every man and woman who attends each one of these monotonous time-holes over the course of the year. As if that would ever ...

As the door to the glorified lunch room swung open, Phil was taken aback. Fully expecting to look upon a table lined with those aforementioned stacking chairs, Phil was stunned to see a row of executive office chairs awaiting him and the other peons. It seemed even the bosses were looking out for themselves, as each end of the table featured an executive conference chair that looked exceptionally comfortable. As the lot of them murmured their token “oohs” and “ahhs” mixed with a few “wow, look at these,” Phil took a seat. Within a moment of sinking into the ergonomic office chair before him, he had to admit the hour and some that lay ahead of him no longer seemed quite so burdensome.

Phil had never enjoyed any staff meeting like he did that one and he further found he’d never been so attentive. Not to say that football, women and cars didn’t cross his mind, but they did so with far less frequently than usual. On top of it all, the same contingency surplus that had reached into online shopping at Cymax Stores to bring them these chairs was the same that would see each cubicle (or pen depending on your perspective) with a new office posture chair on Monday morning. Phil was so awash in the moment he even had the gumption to suggest the topless bar / football game incentive idea but was rejected in short order.

No matter, he thought, maybe things are looking up after all.