He's got a point

No no, you see. Its okay and normal to destroy your body for other peoples profit.

The problem here is you enjoying yourself and experience happiness. Personal happiness is a sin in capitalism, because it might lead to thoughts of improving your situation, and thats the last thing anyone wants. Just think of what it could do to the shareholders!

/s because I know some dim bulb will take this seriously otherwise.

It might be a joke but you are on point...
- its on point, but if I dont /s then someone will come in and think I'm actually arguing in favor of ruining your body for capitalism.
  cause every time I've ever made a super obvious post, I always get some dimbulb response without the /s
No no, you see. Its okay and normal to destroy your body for the glorious state.
The problem here is you enjoying yourself and experience happiness. Personal happiness is a sin in communism, because it might lead to thoughts of freedom and self-improvement, and thats the last thing the government wants. Just think of what it could do to the production!
/s because I know capitalism sucks, but communism sucks as well.
- Why would any government oppose people's thoughts of freedom and self-improvement, when that's specifically the goal of Communism to encourage, as opposed to Capitalism?

I dunno

I'm not trying to hit a flick shot on that vlookup

People that use vlookup over index/match are either geniuses or insane. Or both
- There's something other than vlookup?
- Both. Both is good.
- What? Why would you choose to use a combination of 2 formulas when there's one designed to combine them?

Are we all working the same job? Just spending 8 hours inputing data, filtering and moving columns in excel?

Sounds boring and easy to automate
- no no, the learning curve on the business enviroement won't cover the financial benefits ;) lol jk, of course it is but no one is going to say it

Bad posture and form will mess you up in either. If it hurts to sit in an ergo chair the way you're meant to with your hands at the right position on the mouse and keyboard: you've already been doing it wrong for a while.

I will also argue that general workout will help a lot with pain. I used ti get sorre after some time and after getting a couple dumbells and working out the parts of my body that would hurt/get sore I rarelly ever have problems nowdays.

I'm more likely to take a break with work. Unfortunately that break often entails sitting in the same chair, watching YouTube on the same screen.

Smoking breaks help. But that also kind of defeats the purpose
Same. A lot of work chats and interacting were often meeting that could have been an email sorta things, mostly to get us moving around and active

Yes? But that's already explicitly warned about.

At work I had to fill out a form which threats to my health could impact me. Next to chemicals or radiation, working at a desk for more than x hours a day was also listed as a potential source of bodily harm.

I love spreadsheets (hey, we all have our weird interests) so at first thought this was an ASD meme.

How is liking spreadsheets connected to autistic spectrum disorder? (Im being genuine here)
- B.3. Highly restricted, fixated interests that are abnormal in intensity or focus (e.g., strong attachment to or preoccupation with unusual objects, excessively circumscribed or perseverative interests).
  Excel is a highly structured environment that follows strict rules and procedures to generate outcomes, often sorting and making sense of "messy" inputs. Prime candidate for an ASD hobby/obsession.
- Good question. I have known many people on the spectrum in my life including several close family members and loving spreadsheets is not something I would attribute to any of them.

Just cause the article discusses one thing, doesn't mean it discusses all things

To be fair, lots of companies specifically point out ergonomics and give out onboarding materials with suggestions on exercises to do and office setup best practices.

Awareness is important, and most office jobs already raise awareness about it. I think the only time I've seen it in video games were those take a break reminders I've seen in some Nintendo games.

The boss button is supposed to take you to Excel (or a reasonable facsimile).

It's like you haven't even played a game while you were supposed to be working in the 1990s. What are you, under 40?

Tbf the combination can be worst. During COVID lockdowns I'd spend all waking hours either coding or hand writing for uni, hand writing to teach online, or gaming. Sometimes I'd crochet. I have chronic painful tendinitis now.

People specialized in hand/arm/rotator cuff bodywork can help you with that. You might have to try a few different therapists before you find one that's good, but it's worth it to get relief.
Source- am a bodyworker
It's off topic, but I do approve of that user name. :)

Add two+ hours a day sitting in your car and the aging process is actually reversed!

I'm down with the sentiment of the comment, but I legit find I get way more arm/wrist pain from gaming than from spreadsheets. I think there's much more prolonged button-pressing involved in the former. Some games are worse than others.

Right now my elbow is killing me from too much Project Zomboid over the last few weeks. A day of spreadsheets and QuickBooks today was almost a break from it (not that I didn't go right back to PZ after work).

Elbow issues often means you're using arm wrests.
If you are - don't: it's bad ergonomics. Chair without arm rests will help clear that up. Or drop your arm wrests to their lowest.
- I have arm wrest just low enough to feel them when typing, but good enough to rest my hands when having a controller in my hands.
- Thanks for the tip (genuinely). Unfortunately in this case I actually don't have arm wrests at all - I literally removed them from my chair years ago. There's just something about this game in particular that really messes up my left elbow. No other game does that (normally it'd be just my wrists, if anything).

I used to experience this things from couple hours session on my pc.

I started to rely more on my keyboard which helped with right hand wrist pain ( vim for the win )

I then got a good chair, that when I need to type I have it sit upright so my back is completely straight, and when I take my controller to play a game for longer sessions ( dead cells ) I can tilt it back a little, keeping my back straight and still keep a good posture that doesn't hurt even after 5 hours ( not purelly 5 hours of just sitting and playing )

What helped me the most tho was getting one of those wrist training things and a pair of dumbells to train the parts off my body that would usually feel stiff after a longer session.

I'm all seriousness everyone, take many breaks and there's lots of wrist and hand stretches online.

Also, a vertical mouse have helped my carpal tunnel. If you don't know what that is, use the Magic Mouse for a little while and it'll kick in.

Getting a split keyboard is the biggest ergonomic improvement I've made.
- I've spent a small fortune on split keyboards now, it never came to mind for some reason. Definitely helped too.

Someone who points out excel has clearly never played Starcraft in any capacity. There is a caster, who has a shirt with an x-ray of a hand that's bolted to some sort of frame, with "APM" written on top of it (actions per minute, a measure of how fast a player plays the game).

Mobas, RTS are hell on wrists. FPS too, with all the flicking. You can do excel in a shitty position for years and you'll not end up with screws in your hand or nerve pinching.

To avoid wrist pains don't keep your wrist midair, most of the time keep your wrist lying on something and relaxed, no wrist pains, coming from personal experience, about posture, sit slightly tilted back like in the chair you can sleep in and relax your spine while slightly lying on the chair with straight spine, and back pains gone too, same with neck, find something to rest your neck on comfortably and keep it relaxed, as for eyes, use yellow tinted glasses they help to transform sharp blue white light of the screen to greenish one which is comfortable for your eyes in long term, every advice coming from personal experience, also use this to not waste your hearing https://github.com/Digitalone1/EasyEffects-Presets

I do far less movement on a computer.

Look at it, think, type something, look at it, think, type something...

Just noticed it a long time ago. I have time to do it right vs making the time to do it twice.

Let me air out two unrelated but similar things that annoyed the shit out of me back in the day.

Your parents then: "That floor mat thingy (referring to the Power Pad) doesn't count as exercise because it's still Nintendo. You need to go outside!!!!!"

Adults now: Middle school phys-ed classes consisting of playing Dance Dance Revolution apparently somehow now "counts" as real exercise.

And,

Your parents then: "The problem with you kids is you spend all day in front of that tube, watching those stupid movies and playing video games all day instead of reading books. It's stunting your ability to differentiate fantasy from reality!!!!!"

Your parents now: Instantly believe every damn fool thing they see on Facebook, even and especially when it is clearly horseshit.

So yeah. I can totally believe that some moron would unironically believe that staring at a screen containing an office application is somehow automatically more "wholesome" than staring at a screen displaying any other content for the same amount of time.