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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What other option exists besides minding your own business? I mean, I’m being completely serious. She knows she’s doing it. You are likely the only one who cares. Are you going to report her?[/quote]

It's highly unlikely that OP is the only one who cares. Lots of people she meets with would find this extremely unprofessional and distracting. If I were mentoring this person, I would tell her she ought to stop.

OP, what does the boss think?[/quote]

OP here.  I haven't brought it up to the boss, because I know it's really petty of me.  Yes, yes.  I know it's petty, but I still think she looks unprofessional.  I think my boss has bigger fish to fry with this person's behavior, so how she sits in meetings is probably pretty low on her list of priorities.

So I get it.  I'll MMOB about it.  Can I still silently judge?[/quote]

Of course! I'm silently judging her along with you.

For those of you who say you do this because your feet don't touch the ground, keep in mind that this seems to be happening mostly at regular staff meetings. Hopefully in your own offices you can ask for, and receive, appropriately-sized chairs for your height. That doesn't seem to be the issue with OP's free-spirited colleague. [/quote]

In higher education?  Unless this person works in an executive/administrative office, most of their meetings are probably in seminar rooms.  I'm the PP who said I also work in higher ed, and I'd say about 60% of my meetings are in three different seminar rooms--one on the same floor as my office, one on the floor up, and one in the next building over.  Another 20% of my meetings are in my department chair's office.  It would be 10x as inappropriate for me to demand special chairs for all those spaces or drag my own chair around to those rooms.

Also, we're not exactly flush with cash in higher ed.  When we buy "new" furniture, it's whatever has been cast off by the wealthier units on campus or whatever has been made by state prisoners in the furniture workshop.[/quote]

Me again.  I should also mention that I teach in those same seminar rooms.  There I am, a tenured professor, sitting in one of those uncomfortable chairs with my legs criss-cross applesauce.  Sometimes I even have one "crossed," and the other bent with the knee pulled up to my chest.  Sometimes I even find myself with both legs tucked under, kneeling on the seat.  We get into invigorating conversations in the classroom, and sometimes I'm just trying to follow/lead the flow of ideas, and I really don't care what my legs are doing.  Somehow, my students keep writing dissertations, earning PhDs, and getting jobs.  And I'm about to get promoted.  All with unprofessional ergonomic habits.  [/quote]

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