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Big office HVAC is painful to work out. Stack Effect makes temps harder to hit in certain floors. Some suites will put more people in a room than there is cooling capacity, exterior window/shell heating and floor to ceiling windows turns certain walls into giant radiators. If you let people set their own temps, they end up starving other parts of the loop.
I have strong reactions to cold. My hands and feet won't warm back up and begin to sting and ache. My back, neck, shoulders, and jaw clench and tighten to the point that it becomes painful. Once I get properly cold, it doesn't matter how many pairs of socks I wear or if I have extra sweaters, the pain continues until I can either take a hot shower/bath to warm back up. I've been like this since I was a kid.
I live in the south of the US currently, and summers here are hot and humid, fairly brutal at times. I fully recognize that it gets very uncomfortable outside during the summer. I don't, personally, think that it means we need to keep the AC at full blast on its lowest setting all day long like my coworkers do. But I'm definitely in the minority and so summers are painful for me. I usually take several walks around the block to try and warm up throughout the day. If the pain gets bad enough, I'll use a small space heater or a heating pad to relieve the pain until I can get home.
I honestly miss living in Madrid where AC was not the general rule and, though hot at times, I rarely got the cold tension shivers that I get all the time here in the South. On the other hand, my partner and I save so much money on utilities in the summer compared to my friends and coworkers cause we use the AC sparingly. So benefits and drawbacks I guess. Crazy how different we all are!
Too cold is always better than too hot. Period.
Get a hot tea. Put on a sweater. Put on a fucking blanket, I don't care. You can fix being cold. You're just whining.
I can't strip down to my underwear and dunk myself into a cool water bath at work. It's frowned upon.
Exactly. I have been trying to hammer this into peoples heads for years.
its so easy for someone thats cold to throw something over them.
Someone thats hot cant do fuck all but boil in their skin and die.
Also, being moderately too cool is 10000% more comfortable than being even slightly too hot.
As someone that's always cold I generally agree. It is rather annoying freezing my ass off when the thermostat is set to 75° F, but that's what fuzzy socks and hoodies are for.
I don't complaint about the AC in the office, I just shiver quietly under a blanket.
Thank you.
you can always add more layers, if I take off any more layers it's an uncomfortable chat with HR while I clear my desk and get escorted out lol
What makes me sad is that when I was young, I was always one of the people that felt too hot, and now I have turned into one of those old office ladies that are always cold. I have lived long enough to become the villain.
still am, but I moved to a place without AC and still am warm most of the time. good luck!
I talked them into a convertble standing desk, when I get cold, I stand up. It's good fo the circulation and once i get tired of standing and i'm warm, i sit back down.
Why not both? Lots of places set the climate control to insanely low values, which is uncomfortable, promotes respiratory diseases und wastes energy.
My office does exactly this, it has the thermostat set as cold as it can, and the sensor is in a cooler and shadier part of our floor (where management sit I believe). The rest of us sit in a glass-paned south-facing death trap that fluctuates between 25°C and 15°C multiple times a day on any sunny days. I work from home most of the time so thank fuck I don't have to experience it during this heatwave.
Our office is chilled like a meat locker meaning lots of us have space heaters under our desks, which in turn make the A/C work harder. It's damn depressing when you're someone who cares about energy conservation, but my joints can't take the cold.
Whereas I would be happy working outside until it's 100* or more.
I just need to change industries.
Be careful what you wish for.
My company actually realized that an open-plan office with barely controllable AC isn't very attractive in 2026. Now they're looking for a new office so they can get rid of the current one.
Good riddance. The building has a (painted) metal facade so mobile reception is crap and you can hear the espresso machine from every point in the office with perfect clarity.
I got annoyed the other day at work. I work in the offices of a factory. It's 35 Celsius and a lot of hard working people are working next to large ovens and suffering from high heat. A couple of people on the office Teams channel started with comments like "given the temperature we will be organising some cold drinks and ice creams for the office staff"
I would like to see those people try and spend a day on the production lines in this heat.
Seems like a no-brainer. You can put on any amount of clothing if the office is too cold, but there's only so much you can take off if it's too hot. Even on casual Friday - found that out the hard way.
Not much that clothing can do when the air is excessively dry due to excessive air conditioning, also not much it helps against headache inducing constant air flow.
Hot office suck, a/c sucks. I am lucky we have a heat exchanger ceiling in the office and it is set to comfortable temperatures not fridge settings. I necer quite understood why some seem to insidt a room hast to be colder in summer than in winter.
Why is it difficult to get it? It’s inconvenient for them. Do you think people need to consult everyone else in the world and make sure that their own personal problem is the worst ever experienced by any human, before being allowed to feel uncomfortable?
For real. There are starving children in America. Someone always has it worse
nothing compares to working in 112°F under a blazing sun with 75% humidity, zero cloud cover and zero wind.
did I mention you're doing this for 10-12 hours a day while performing complex geometry and handling tools that can cut off your fingers, arms, or legs?
all while the boss is driving site to site in a blast freezer on wheels bitching about why it takes too god damn long to put up some walls or sheet the walls/roof.
sometimes I miss it, most the time I want to forget it.
American or Celicus?
It's awful either way to be fair... Ones below freezing the other isn't 19.5c ):<
Rankine
Kelvin
Can't be, Kelvin doesn't use degrees
Celcius is Kelvin, just with a different base because absolute zero is not terribly practical.
I guess non-retard.
I forgot how much I hated working in an office. Our desks were directly under the vent, so we'd get blasted with cold air. Sales was off in a corner, where it was too warm for them. No amount of adjusting the thermostat would change their local temperature, but they'd try anyway.
In addition to being climate criminals who should all be stripped of their nice things, people who mandate in-office are often causing personal, physical, suffering.
Me in my 93°F warehouse in the summer, which is also my 22°warehouse in the winter, for 12 hours a day
It also depends on individual people. I’m freezing below 76F 24C, my best friend starts sweating if it gets above 68F 20C. His house is set at 66F 19C, and if I go over, I know I have to bring a jacket, and if he comes over to my house he brings a sweat rag.
Big pet peeve of mine. If you think it's chilly you can put on some clothes, if I run hot and think it's hot HR frowns upon me removing my clothes.
Reminds me of a workplace story a friend of mine told me years ago:
On the desk opposite of her there was a colleague who insisted on wearing open shoes without socks to work every day. Due to proper AC that was a bit chilly at the feet so she brought a noisy space heater to warm her feet. And when other people complained about the noise she was shocked about how people could be so selfish and demand that she has to freeze. Could not see any other way out of that dilemma.
Oh my goodness mild weather! How will you survive???