r/oddlysatisfying • u/johnny_briggs • 1d ago
Chair Row Alignment Tool
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u/turnz702 1d ago
Now if they could just find a way to make a space between each chair so that it’s not tighter than an airplane seat.
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u/steadyaero 1d ago
These type of chairs hook together on the sides. So that would be a chair manufacturer thing to build in spacing
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u/Eyevis 1d ago
Legally required, so in case of a panic they don't become a loose jumble and block evac.
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u/andersonfmly 1d ago
And it’ll take a matter of minutes for all tht hard work to go POOF once the doors open to whoever’s using the space.
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u/lostmyparachute 1d ago
Doesn't matter. The first impression is already registered
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u/KhazraShaman 1d ago
Doesn't matter. They've already got paid.
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u/iantayls 1d ago
And they'd like to get paid again, so they try to do a good job
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u/Dryakallia 1d ago
Chaos takes over the second the doors finally open?
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u/Gotu_Jayle 1d ago
Yes. People sit down, thousands of adjustments to the chairs occur over the course of the event, and then the perfect lines are gone.
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u/SaltyLonghorn 1d ago
If you let the people adjust the chairs naturally over a week it ends in the Fibonacci sequence.
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u/Pomodorosan 1d ago
Bot check, 24 days old, activated 5 days ago, "two-parter feminine-sounding" username
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u/cuteintern 1d ago
Yeah, but the baseline is set - the chairs and room are organized and spaced properly. Of course they're going to get moved around, but at least it's a clean start.
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u/Dramatic_Suit_6783 1d ago
I worked in events for 15 years and all I gotta say is if you look closely you can see a hook on the end chair. All these banquet chairs stack beautifully and have the ability to hook together in rows to make a perfect line.
We usually didn't hook them but it doesn't take snapping a masons line to eye it and then the trick is on the aisles, the inside chair column, where the row aisle is, put a chair there. All your rows are spaced perfectly
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u/cogginsmatt 1d ago
I think the chairs are ganged together (as they should be) so they will probably hold most of the form
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u/kitsunewarlock 1d ago
While there's some truth, you'd be surprised how accurate most people are at putting stuff back. Like, sure, it only takes a few and there will be a few given the audience size, but it's uplifting to know that overall most humans are not inconsiderate assholes.
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u/HaroldBloominOnion 1d ago
You sound like you don't make your bed in the morning.
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u/the-final-frontiers 1d ago
if a bed doesn't get made in the forest, does anyone care.
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u/TetraDax 1d ago
..you actually should not do that. I needs to air out. You lose about a liter of sweat overnight, and your beds warms up. Warm and moist is like the perfect breeding ground for mites. It's unhygienic to make your bed immediately in the morning.
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u/hypo-osmotic 1d ago
That's something that I haven't considered before. I assume that the ideal solution isn't to leave your bedding all clumped up but rather remove it from the bed and hang it up?
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u/TetraDax 1d ago
That would be ideal, yes, but generally leaving it clumped is already enough, provided you change your sheets regularily. It's the moisture in the matress and bed sheet that's the main issue, and than can't escape with the bed fully made.
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u/deSuspect 1d ago
Why the fuck would I waste my time to do it? Absolutely pointless activity.
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u/Individual-Fail4709 1d ago
Anyone else think that having these cheap ass chairs touch is the worst way to sit through a meeting/conference/concert, whatever? Uncomfortable and way too close together.
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u/KalaUposatha 1d ago
Swear these chairs are somehow more uncomfortable than the pure metal ones. They always have weird spots where the material pokes your ass and back.
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u/Individual-Fail4709 1d ago
Agree. The padding does almost nothing and they are so upright. Worse than economy airline seats.
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u/Teufelsstern 19h ago
And they have no lumbar support at all so after an hour you're just constantly hurting
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u/Consistent-Ease6070 1d ago
First thing I do when I get to an event with this setup is to pick an aisle seat and unhook it.
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u/_name_of_the_user_ 1d ago
WAIT! Are you saying you have shoulders like an actual human being???? There's just no way. That's impossible!
-The designers of these chairs
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u/cold-corn-dog 1d ago
I'm a farter too. It'll rumble down the line.
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u/round-earth-theory 1d ago
My ass hurts just looking at them. These things are worse than standing.
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u/Smooth-Brilliant-940 1d ago
It’s typically required by the fire marshal. They have to be locked together when set in rows like that.
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u/JeffreyDahmerVance 1d ago edited 1d ago
These guys clearly didn’t have an Ed.
You see, an Ed is a 45 year old who looks 90 and sets the convention center chairs up by him self in the middle of the night while on a cocktail of drugs and sipping his Mickey of Seagram’s.
The Ed never fails when it comes to setting up chairs, tables and other random shit. Now when it comes to paying child support, keeping a car between the lines and obeying red lights his record is shakey; but what artist is without flaws?
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u/sal_mugga 1d ago
I like ed, his loved ones and his family hate him. But Ed’s cool in my book, I didn’t even know he had 6 kids. He lives like a bachelor!
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u/Cosmic_Quasar 1d ago
I was a custodian at a church for a few years when I was in college. Our Ed was named Al.
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u/EatSleepJeep 1d ago
It's always Ed, Al, Stan, Phil, Mike or Bill.
It's never Horatio, Cyrus, Victor, Chester or Floyd.
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u/Hammeredyou 1d ago
Idk man, I had a dishie named Jesus that was missing half his fingers and ate dead shellfish, but he never fucked up 🤣
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u/KalaUposatha 1d ago
We had one of those, but he was 65, chain smoked every minute of every day, and absolutely reeked of alcohol. I have no idea how he was alive and able to function at all. Goddamn was that guy a hell of a worker though.
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u/Movie-Independent 1d ago
It’s me - I’m Ed, save for one thing…I don’t have kids! So I’m free to spend ALL of my energy on perfecting the setup and still get some (intermittent and barely restful) sleep at the end of the night. Now, am I flawless? No, I’m incredibly lonely and all other tasks that require such discipline are beyond me. But as you stated, what artist is without flaws?
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u/ThePheebs 1d ago
Jig; the word you're looking for is jig.
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u/hotstupidgirl 1d ago
And yet the seats are still all too close to each other side to side. Shoulders are often wider than seats.
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u/ElectricLego 1d ago
Having sat in conference halls and locking chairs just like this, every other chair is wasted because they can't just put 3 inches between seats. Nobody wanted to sit next to a stranger before covid happened, much less now.
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u/OnTheEveOfWar 1d ago
Yup. I’ve been to a bunch of conferences and everyone spreads out. I also get claustrophobic if I’m jammed between two strangers for a 2 hr session.
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u/steadyaero 1d ago
Chair design problem. These type of chairs are designed to hook together on the sides, but said hooks don't put much spacing between each chair
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u/fatpandabear 1d ago
how do they make the rows parallel though?
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u/Kaioxygen 1d ago
There’s tape on the floor.
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u/LazyMousse4266 1d ago
how they make the tape parallel tho
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u/Mannix-Da-DaftPooch 1d ago
Tape on the walls
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u/SILK_DIVER 1d ago
how are the walls parallel
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u/Longjumping_Wolf_912 1d ago
Believe it or not, aliens
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u/UnAnon10 18h ago
All that work just for the chairs to move out of place the second someone sits down.
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u/guyako 1d ago
Most chairs in a room this big should lock together, so in the event of an evacuation, the room doesn’t get scattered with random chairs, blocking egress. That locking mechanism would automatically align the chairs.
I guess Pigeon Forge isn’t big on fire codes.
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u/VeryNiceGuy22 1d ago
I work at like 850 cap event center and we don't have locking chairs like this.
Ngl having to set up and tear down hundreds of locking chairs 5 times a week would be a huge pain in the ass. We used to have them like that in my church growing up, but they stayed out all the time.
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u/guyako 1d ago
I’m sure it comes down to local fire codes.
I’ve worked events in NYC and Las Vegas where we had rental chairs that didn’t lock together, and we had to have a crew go through each row with zip ties to make the Fire Marshall happy.
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u/VeryNiceGuy22 1d ago
Yea I live in rural America. We prob just have chiller requirements, plus the fire marshal is buddies with my boss.
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u/Maximum_Overdrive 1d ago
That would totally suck ass. Both the setup and tear down.
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u/Old_Ladies 1d ago
At my church which can seat comfortably 600 people though we can pack in more for certain events.
We have those interlocking chairs and put them up and take them down every Sunday. The church is also a school and we meet in the gym. During the summer there are a lot of events going on during the week too.
It doesn't take long and when the youth are on a trip or something we get the whole congregation to pitch in which takes like 10 minutes. We stack the chairs 11 high and have a dolly roll them to storage.
The youth group usually does it and they get paid to do it.
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u/zozororo 1d ago
These do lock together you can tell. The edge of one of the end chairs has the tongue piece for it. And when he adjusts them the whole row moves.
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u/captainfactoid386 1d ago
As someone who set up my chairs in my parents church, while they lock together they have some wiggle room. Over a long run of chairs you could get a decent curve. We’d just eyeball it though
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u/pinniped90 1d ago
They had a huge fire about 10 years ago so I would hope they have fire codes!
("They" being the Pigeon Forge / Gatlinburg area - not necessarily this event center.)
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u/HLF20 19h ago
Where is this? In germany (maybe whole europe) these chair rows need to be daisychained with connectors for security reasons. For the case the crowd starts to panic. When they are connected the rows get straight by themselves.
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u/bh0 1d ago
Ah yes, conference chairs that are hooked together and not wide enough for normal people.
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u/r3dout 1d ago
Chairs that I will unhook from their neighbours the instant I see this set-up so I can sit somewhat properly.
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u/Marikachu93 6h ago
And then during a conference, everyone just stops and sits at the very first chair of the line haha
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u/OneIntroduction5459 3h ago
Yes! Every conference i get to I think who designed those chairs?? All middle empty. These chairs should be 4 to 5 max and then aisle to get the max use of the chairs and convenience
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u/SarcasmStreet 1d ago
Our chairs have a spot at the bottom where the leg of one slides into the other
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u/Ebonhearth_Druid 1d ago
Those are the fucking worst. Not only are the chairs way too close together, but now I can't even awkwardly shuffle it away? Fuck that, I'm leaving.
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u/RadicalBowler 1d ago
I'd call this an alignment guide more than a tool. I would consider this a tool if it aligned the seats for them.
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u/DailySojourn 1d ago
Could you not just use the back of the chairs? Which form a line?
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u/PqqMo 1d ago
And 2 seconds after people sit on it they aren't in line any longer
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u/westergames81 1d ago
You see oddly satisfying, I see two people moving a row of chair inches closer to the seat in front of them and smushed together, making them that much more uncomfortable.
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u/JiveTalkerFunkyWalkr 1d ago
I’ve seen restaurants that do that before opening or for filming. Strings to make chairs are aligned forks glasses etc. those Michelin restaurants don’t fuck around.
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u/Movie-Independent 1d ago
To all the people saying “it’s just a string”, well yeah, but it has a box on the end to reel it in!! Also I’m jealous this venue has tape markers for the end of each row…I have to use a stick for that
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u/queuedUp 1d ago
Ok... but how are they ensuring that the spacing from the row ahead is the same on each end and from one row to another?
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u/brainsaggy 1d ago
Back in my day we spaced the rows with chairs.
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u/peachcoowgirl 1d ago
Sometimes the cheapest trick gives the best outcome.
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u/adenosine-5 1d ago
You could also use cheap construction laser for like 10$ which would be way easier and faster...
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u/Aliencoy77 1d ago
I did banquet/convention set-up at Gaylord Opyland, we just lined up with the pattern in the carpet for break outs like this. In the year I worked there, I don't recall having to set up lined seating like this in the 100,000sqft convention room they have. That was predominantly used large boothed trade shows.
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u/thegreedyturtle 1d ago
Yeah this is an awfully complicated contraption for holding a piece of string.
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u/Mister_Celophane 11h ago
Unfortunately, most people are wider than the chairs, and that fact wasn't taken into account. It LOOKS good, though. 🤦♂️
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u/guajojo 1d ago
oh boy.. this is not satisfying at all just thinking how futile the effort is
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u/SXOSXO 1d ago
We could actually use something like this where I work. We often have to set up events and getting them aligned by eye alone is so time consuming. We've thought about using lasers, but the floors are carpet, making the light diffuse too much.
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u/DryDiscipline2001 1d ago
Am I a fucking idiot? This isn’t satisfying (due to the manual and imprecise method of moving the chairs) nor is it interesting (a fucking string)
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u/YBRmuggsLP21 1d ago
Seems like a laser level on the floor would be easier than the string method, but what do I know.
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u/rememberall 1d ago
Can't get much easier than a string
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u/sofakinggood24 1d ago
Seems like a laser level on the floor would be easier than the string method, but what do I know.
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u/airwalker08 1d ago
This must be for the annual OCD convention
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u/Crypticcrypto 1d ago
Hopefully one of the chairs is a different color, and left slightly askew. Keep em on their toes.
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u/jimsteringraham 1d ago
So a string?