Re:People who disapprove the the chairs (Score 1)

Nowadays, we've got weird chairs in the Union that seem to be made out a compressed coffee filters. The material is some sort of plastic-steel hybrid, silver-coloured, with a steeply-inclined, circular back. So it really does look and feel like sitting in a coffee filter. Only without the benefit of being able to make coffee. You can find these trouser-tearing wonders on the third floor. Don't even get me started on the moulded-plastic ergonomic nightmares they put in the McNeil room.

They just recently got finished remodelling/redecorating the Union, so I think the concrete furniture you mentioned is gone. Although most of the new stuff seems to be built for some sort of mythical students with the stature of a (very colourblind) High Elf.

Do they still have the joke where Comp Sci people never actually work?

Yeah, it's still going around, although it's slowly moving over to the Information-Technology 'major' now.