Tropical lovers need to be banned from office climate control. They can put a jumper on. I can’t get naked so just sit there sweating.
You can fix this with Superglue.
Suffered with this for years, had a desk fan on my face for so long that my forehead would sweat even if my body was a comfortable temperature.
Nowadays sit in a small office with a menopausal women and we have it nice and cool
Chaotic solution:
Press the Menu button, scroll down to “Restriction”. It’ll show “Temp Range”. Press the Tick button, enter the default PIN 0000, set sensible temperature ranges, like 18-21, for each mode (Cool, Heat, Auto).
Oh, sure. You set it to 23, it’ll be pootering along, “Oh, yeah, 23, easy. Nearly there.” Wouldn’t you rather “fuck! 29??! Christ, let’s get cracking. Got to generate some serious heat!”
Then when it hits 23, we’re suddenly all like… Click! “Sorry, already there.”
The boiler will be like, “What the fuck??!”
I thought it was universally agreed that ‘room temperature’ should be 22.
The office I’m in is freezing most of the time, what fucks me off more is one person will walk in and turn it onto arctic mode without considering the other 19 people in the office
Not only that but 9 times out of 10 they have a jumper on
In our office the women got that thermometer up as high as possible. I put it as low as possible. Pointed out to the room if it’s too hot I go topless. If they’re cold it’s easier to put on a jumper than have to see my ugly ass chest. Their choice. It’s quite cool in the office since
The problem with these things is that often the thermometer is in the blowy thingy (i’m not an engineer) which usually is right under the ceiling.
At our office we have one that sometimes shows a temperature that’s 3°C higher than the temp measured by a thermometer mounted at head height. It also changes during the day, depending on wether the sun is shining on the wall the thing is mounted on.
I’ve also seen a warehouse were the thermometer was in the blowy thingy in the ceiling – at a height of 25 meters or so.
It is a constant case of people moaning about how”cold” it is, while I’m sitting there sweating as I just walked 25 mins uphill to get into the office. The air one is set to 22c “cool” that is not cold, but my god you’d think it was the arctic circle, with people walking around with jumpers, cardigans etc, even one person has to wrap a blanket round themselves like a Russian babushka. Oh, let’s not forget if it is cloudy then people assume it must be freezing when actually really humid and still like 24c outside, but again act like it’s the middle of winter in Siberia.
I would kill for my office to be 24.5, I work from home from a closet under the stairs I turned into a small office. I hit temps of 37 easily most days, sometimes on super hot days I have hit 40and have to sit there non stop drinking water
I used to work in East Tower (now demolished) at BBC Television Centre. The windows were sealed, the radiators were controlled building-wide, and were on a seasonal schedule. The only option to control the temperature was A/C. It was quite common on a sunny spring day to have both the radiators and the A/C on. Thank you all for paying your Television License, just one example of how it was spent!
Fun story: One day I was freezing my arse off in the office, it was the middle of summer and I had a hoody on and I noticed my boss was cradling his cup of coffee in his hands for warmth.
I asked my colleague “What temperature have you got the AC on?”
“It’s only on low”
I messed with the controls and set it at 19.5 degrees. THE HEATING CAME ON
The “low” setting was the lowest possible temperature. And he was still wearing a jacket as well!
My last hotel job the thermostat was controlled by the manager that loved to keep it overly tropical, even tho she barely did any active work other then sit in office, Used to be kept around 25°C. While everyone else doing the running around looking like we’d fallen in a swimming pool with sweat
I just surround myself with noisy fans and desktop air con units, I gave up trying to lower the temperature and become my own solution.
We doing the 30 degree challenge?
Everyone puts their coats on and we bang the thermostat to 30. First one to take their coat off buys the lunchtime beers.
Me and my bf are gearing up for this war at home 💪😂
Aircon engineer I work with disabled the controls from each thermostat, set it to 20 at the main panel, no one is gonna mess up his Aircon, people can play with the controls all they want, it won’t make a difference, the number of breakdowns that have happened since he did this are practically zero
Just got back from the USA where the office has the temperature set to 18c!! Several of us we wearing thermal coats inside and then removing them go outside where it was 40c.
The air con was constantly ‘blowing’ cold air on us non stop. We asked whether the temperature could be adjusted and was told ‘no it’s centrally controlled’
25 inside is fkin disgusting, what is wrong with people.
My god I’m glad I don’t work in an office anymore.
There was a woman in there that demanded to sit by the window, but wouldn’t let us open it. In winter it was drafty by the window so she insisted on cranking the heat up, even though the rest of us were roasting already.
Just let someone else sit by the window or wear more clothes ffs, I can’t sit there naked.
At a previous company I worked for, there was an EHS policy which covered office AC temperature ranges (18 to 22C). This should be enforceable if its proceduraised.
If the company you work for doesn’t have this, a good money saving suggestion (especially given the unit cost of electricity) would be for your EHS department to set and enforce such a policy.
Alternatively set the min max limits if possible.
get a radiator key and see if all the radiators are air bled properly, this will alter actual vs indicated.
Oh man. We moved from a centrally controlled pleasant climate at 20-21 to a free input system after complaints from the reptilians. Now half the office has desk fans. I have three. It’s a loud and forceful minority who want it at 25.
It’s the 2nd September and I know it’s not warm but I’m surprised any heating is being allowed at all. They should just dress appropriately and get a hot drink.
Yea but the people who were obsessive about it had it on apps on their phones, the thing on the wall was just to confirm the torment.
I remember when I was working at the NHS I was in Nurses’ Accommodation for a year or so
I would always want the fridge as cool as possible for my milk and beer primarily, a 6/6 for power.
Was sharing it with a vegan lady who always made the fridge considerably less cool. To save power? To somehow help her salads taste better? I have no idea honestly. Neither of us ever broached the subject. She would usually turn it down to 2 or 2.5, at which point the milk and beer are practically lukewarm.
So we were constantly turning the fridge up or down whenever the other person was out working or away for the weekend.
I tried to extend an olive branch for a while by turning it to 4 instead. Nope, she still turned it to 2.
At which point I just resigned myself to the fact we were going to keep doing this shit forever and went back to turning it up to max power.
I feel like the trick to using AC is to heat to a low temperature and cool to a high temperature, but people seem inclined to do the opposite which leads to sweltering heat or freezing cold.
24 to 25 is a pretty good temperature. I do like it colder, yes, I don’t even mind 18, but I have pets that don’t handle cold too well, so guess what, I leave it at 28 to 30 and suffer because of them. I’m hot even in winter at home. You’d be surprised how well one can adapt to 25 when they are forced to live with 28 to 30. Even when not forced to, 25 in summer is pretty doable and quite comfortable if you have a desk job. If you have a physically demanding job then it’s still better than 28. At my jobs (and in current job/past jobs) they left it at 28 to save energy/money. I used to get mad, eventually I adapted.
Having the same issue at work… it’s bloody controlled centrally so can’t event change it
This is offensive.
I used to work in a non-aircon new build office that did “air transfer” by opening the walls to bleed off temperature.
The only issue is the noise when the wall panels opened, and members of staff who liked the heat, sat next to the opening walls, and promptly hit the manual override.
The building was as a result, gross.
Ideally Aircon should be seasonal, in the winter, when outside is 2 or 3c 17 or 18c is nice and warm, in summer when it’s 30c outside, 20/21 is pleasant.
It’s easier to add layers to a person than get cool if you’re already down to a shirt, so running buildings cooler is preferable.
Also if you get cold easily, don’t sit under Aircon exhausts.
In a tropical countries, they put their AC around 24-25 tho
I used to share a research office in a university building with a group from Southern Italy who sat next to the thermostat. They’d always overcorrect for the outside temp.
In the summer they’d set it to 18C when the lab I was in would hit the low 30s (fun in a lab coat). In the winter they’d set the thermo to mid-high 20s when the lab got down to about 10C…how do you dress for either of those setups?
One December I went in on a Saturday and it had been set to 32, that was the worst I saw.
The workshop thermostat is always going up and down, especially on my shift, me and the apprentice likes it pretty cool, but the other 2 workers like it pretty warm.
It doesn’t help that we work in a steelworks, so out on plant it’s roasting hot anyway, but many times I’ve come back to the workshop for it to be at 31°, and I’ve been sweating my bollocks off out on plant.
Funnily enough, it’s only on nights we don’t have an issue with it, it’ll stay in a nice middle ground (for obvious reasons)
Get the police involved as they are obviously a psychopath
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Tropical lovers need to be banned from office climate control. They can put a jumper on. I can’t get naked so just sit there sweating.
You can fix this with Superglue.
Suffered with this for years, had a desk fan on my face for so long that my forehead would sweat even if my body was a comfortable temperature.
Nowadays sit in a small office with a menopausal women and we have it nice and cool
Chaotic solution:
Press the Menu button, scroll down to “Restriction”. It’ll show “Temp Range”. Press the Tick button, enter the default PIN 0000, set sensible temperature ranges, like 18-21, for each mode (Cool, Heat, Auto).
Oh, sure. You set it to 23, it’ll be pootering along, “Oh, yeah, 23, easy. Nearly there.” Wouldn’t you rather “fuck! 29??! Christ, let’s get cracking. Got to generate some serious heat!”
Then when it hits 23, we’re suddenly all like… Click! “Sorry, already there.”
The boiler will be like, “What the fuck??!”
I thought it was universally agreed that ‘room temperature’ should be 22.
The office I’m in is freezing most of the time, what fucks me off more is one person will walk in and turn it onto arctic mode without considering the other 19 people in the office
Not only that but 9 times out of 10 they have a jumper on
In our office the women got that thermometer up as high as possible. I put it as low as possible. Pointed out to the room if it’s too hot I go topless. If they’re cold it’s easier to put on a jumper than have to see my ugly ass chest. Their choice. It’s quite cool in the office since
The problem with these things is that often the thermometer is in the blowy thingy (i’m not an engineer) which usually is right under the ceiling.
At our office we have one that sometimes shows a temperature that’s 3°C higher than the temp measured by a thermometer mounted at head height. It also changes during the day, depending on wether the sun is shining on the wall the thing is mounted on.
I’ve also seen a warehouse were the thermometer was in the blowy thingy in the ceiling – at a height of 25 meters or so.
It is a constant case of people moaning about how”cold” it is, while I’m sitting there sweating as I just walked 25 mins uphill to get into the office. The air one is set to 22c “cool” that is not cold, but my god you’d think it was the arctic circle, with people walking around with jumpers, cardigans etc, even one person has to wrap a blanket round themselves like a Russian babushka. Oh, let’s not forget if it is cloudy then people assume it must be freezing when actually really humid and still like 24c outside, but again act like it’s the middle of winter in Siberia.
I would kill for my office to be 24.5, I work from home from a closet under the stairs I turned into a small office. I hit temps of 37 easily most days, sometimes on super hot days I have hit 40and have to sit there non stop drinking water
I used to work in East Tower (now demolished) at BBC Television Centre. The windows were sealed, the radiators were controlled building-wide, and were on a seasonal schedule. The only option to control the temperature was A/C. It was quite common on a sunny spring day to have both the radiators and the A/C on. Thank you all for paying your Television License, just one example of how it was spent!
Fun story: One day I was freezing my arse off in the office, it was the middle of summer and I had a hoody on and I noticed my boss was cradling his cup of coffee in his hands for warmth.
I asked my colleague “What temperature have you got the AC on?”
“It’s only on low”
I messed with the controls and set it at 19.5 degrees. THE HEATING CAME ON
The “low” setting was the lowest possible temperature. And he was still wearing a jacket as well!
My last hotel job the thermostat was controlled by the manager that loved to keep it overly tropical, even tho she barely did any active work other then sit in office, Used to be kept around 25°C. While everyone else doing the running around looking like we’d fallen in a swimming pool with sweat
I just surround myself with noisy fans and desktop air con units, I gave up trying to lower the temperature and become my own solution.
We doing the 30 degree challenge?
Everyone puts their coats on and we bang the thermostat to 30. First one to take their coat off buys the lunchtime beers.
Me and my bf are gearing up for this war at home 💪😂
Aircon engineer I work with disabled the controls from each thermostat, set it to 20 at the main panel, no one is gonna mess up his Aircon, people can play with the controls all they want, it won’t make a difference, the number of breakdowns that have happened since he did this are practically zero
Just got back from the USA where the office has the temperature set to 18c!! Several of us we wearing thermal coats inside and then removing them go outside where it was 40c.
The air con was constantly ‘blowing’ cold air on us non stop. We asked whether the temperature could be adjusted and was told ‘no it’s centrally controlled’
25 inside is fkin disgusting, what is wrong with people.
My god I’m glad I don’t work in an office anymore.
There was a woman in there that demanded to sit by the window, but wouldn’t let us open it. In winter it was drafty by the window so she insisted on cranking the heat up, even though the rest of us were roasting already.
Just let someone else sit by the window or wear more clothes ffs, I can’t sit there naked.
At a previous company I worked for, there was an EHS policy which covered office AC temperature ranges (18 to 22C). This should be enforceable if its proceduraised.
If the company you work for doesn’t have this, a good money saving suggestion (especially given the unit cost of electricity) would be for your EHS department to set and enforce such a policy.
Alternatively set the min max limits if possible.
get a radiator key and see if all the radiators are air bled properly, this will alter actual vs indicated.
Oh man. We moved from a centrally controlled pleasant climate at 20-21 to a free input system after complaints from the reptilians. Now half the office has desk fans. I have three. It’s a loud and forceful minority who want it at 25.
It’s the 2nd September and I know it’s not warm but I’m surprised any heating is being allowed at all. They should just dress appropriately and get a hot drink.
Yea but the people who were obsessive about it had it on apps on their phones, the thing on the wall was just to confirm the torment.
I remember when I was working at the NHS I was in Nurses’ Accommodation for a year or so
I would always want the fridge as cool as possible for my milk and beer primarily, a 6/6 for power.
Was sharing it with a vegan lady who always made the fridge considerably less cool. To save power? To somehow help her salads taste better? I have no idea honestly. Neither of us ever broached the subject. She would usually turn it down to 2 or 2.5, at which point the milk and beer are practically lukewarm.
So we were constantly turning the fridge up or down whenever the other person was out working or away for the weekend.
I tried to extend an olive branch for a while by turning it to 4 instead. Nope, she still turned it to 2.
At which point I just resigned myself to the fact we were going to keep doing this shit forever and went back to turning it up to max power.
I feel like the trick to using AC is to heat to a low temperature and cool to a high temperature, but people seem inclined to do the opposite which leads to sweltering heat or freezing cold.
24 to 25 is a pretty good temperature.
I do like it colder, yes, I don’t even mind 18, but I have pets that don’t handle cold too well, so guess what, I leave it at 28 to 30 and suffer because of them. I’m hot even in winter at home.
You’d be surprised how well one can adapt to 25 when they are forced to live with 28 to 30. Even when not forced to, 25 in summer is pretty doable and quite comfortable if you have a desk job. If you have a physically demanding job then it’s still better than 28.
At my jobs (and in current job/past jobs) they left it at 28 to save energy/money. I used to get mad, eventually I adapted.
Having the same issue at work… it’s bloody controlled centrally so can’t event change it
This is offensive.
I used to work in a non-aircon new build office that did “air transfer” by opening the walls to bleed off temperature.
The only issue is the noise when the wall panels opened, and members of staff who liked the heat, sat next to the opening walls, and promptly hit the manual override.
The building was as a result, gross.
Ideally Aircon should be seasonal, in the winter, when outside is 2 or 3c 17 or 18c is nice and warm, in summer when it’s 30c outside, 20/21 is pleasant.
It’s easier to add layers to a person than get cool if you’re already down to a shirt, so running buildings cooler is preferable.
Also if you get cold easily, don’t sit under Aircon exhausts.
In a tropical countries, they put their AC around 24-25 tho
I used to share a research office in a university building with a group from Southern Italy who sat next to the thermostat. They’d always overcorrect for the outside temp.
In the summer they’d set it to 18C when the lab I was in would hit the low 30s (fun in a lab coat). In the winter they’d set the thermo to mid-high 20s when the lab got down to about 10C…how do you dress for either of those setups?
One December I went in on a Saturday and it had been set to 32, that was the worst I saw.
The workshop thermostat is always going up and down, especially on my shift, me and the apprentice likes it pretty cool, but the other 2 workers like it pretty warm.
It doesn’t help that we work in a steelworks, so out on plant it’s roasting hot anyway, but many times I’ve come back to the workshop for it to be at 31°, and I’ve been sweating my bollocks off out on plant.
Funnily enough, it’s only on nights we don’t have an issue with it, it’ll stay in a nice middle ground (for obvious reasons)
Get the police involved as they are obviously a psychopath