F=MA, or Force Equals My Ass Times Acceleration

And in this particular case, M is my big fat ass, A is the “flail myself onto objects to sit down” and F is the resultant cracked Aeron pan. I was pretty embarrassed about this particular incident, until I found out that it’s pretty endemic to the popular office chair from Herman Miller.

There are even government warnings on this sort of thing.

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