When I started at the day job, I was astounded to learn that my office chair was the most comfortable one I have ever sat in, and that includes ones I bought myself. I liked it so much that I looked up the make and bought one for my home office (it was time—my old chair was patched with tape and had seen better days).

All well and good. Except that over the year I noticed that my home chair was getting more and more uncomfortable, while my work chair was absolutely fine. Today, I got sick of my left leg spasming after only a half hour at my desk and decided to do something about it, because I would really like to be able to write without crying in pain, ya know?

So I Googled instructions on how to adjust an office chair and started playing with settings. The seat was at an ergonomic level so that was fine. I tried adjusting the tilt tension and the seat tilt but that didn’t help. The instructions also suggested that I look to see if I could raise the back at all.

I couldn’t feel any controls so I turned the chair upside down and checked where the back joins onto the seat. There was no way to raise the back, but I did notice that the positioning of the back could be adjusted in a horizontal direction. Since I am blessed with a bodacious booty I took out two screws, slid the back as far to the rear as the remaining screw would allow, then retightened everything and sat in it.

Hosanna. Now it feels like my office chair and my lower back is nicely supported. I can only assume that whoever used the office chair before me was also gluteously blessed and had adjusted the chair for their comfort. I’m gonna take a closer look on Monday and see what they did, but for now I am quite pleased with my MacGuyvering.