I'm allways reminded of the anecdote of the battered old man stood in an airport after the unification of Germany, surrounded by shops and duty-free, looking up and saying “At least under communism, you could sit down”.
I run the Guest Services department in a 250 room full-service hotel in the US. One of the changes i've made in the past year since taking this role is to add stools behind the front desk. It allways seemed to me that if we wanted the Associates who work the desk to be chipper and bubbly all the time, the least we could do was stop giving them chronic foot pain.
In this year, no complaints, no issues, nothing but smooth sailing, outside the occasional unconnected issue. But our new GM, well he sees these stools and its like I'm buck naked, making love to his daughter over his desk, while openly reciting the communist manifesto.
Why do boomers hate the idea of chairs, what is their malfunction that they will go out of their way to openly harm their own interests, ie. pissing off employees and making service personnel grumpy, to go against a simple harmless creature comfort?
IT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE MONEY TO CHANGE.