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If it were over 100 degrees in your office...

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waggy said:
why? there has to be someone in the area that has the skill/equipment to come fix it. well unless you live out in the boondocks i guess.
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There is a team of facilities people who have been trying to find a fix for 3 weeks now. I think right now they are putting a 190 ton chiller on the yard in front of the building and running temporary ducting to connect to the main chiller ducting that broke. It'll probably be another week until the temporary solution is in place.
 
I'd stick it out if a repair was imminent. There's no excuse for the thing being broken for two weeks though. I'd say 3 days tops, and I wouldn't get a hell of a lot done in those 3 days...
 
If it was 100 degrees in my office today, I would stick around til 2:30 and then go home. We're having a make your own sundae party at 2pm today. I think it's Ben & Jerry's ice cream, too.
 
There has to be regulations that require the temperature to be below a certain point. I mean we have that in Sweden, and you're probably in the US, where a mug of hot coffee is required to carry a warning telling you that it's hot.
 
Working in an office at 100 degrees would suck. If I had to do it I'd be wearing a t-shirt and swimming trunks, and have a fan going at full blast at all times.
 
Capt Caveman said:
If it was 100 degrees in my office today, I would stick around til 2:30 and then go home. We're having a make your own sundae party at 2pm today. I think it's Ben & Jerry's ice cream, too.
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Having my second sundae right now. It was actually a Ben & Jerry's company truck that came and set-up shop in our atrium. Phish Food with M&M's and walnuts with hot caramel. Yum!
 
The AC where I work struggles to keep it below 90F. There was a time when office temps hit 93F last year that I just walked out due to temps. If it were over 100F I'd probably not come to work ... unless I worked outside.
 
I've worked in some pretty hot offices.

In a few, it's actually got so hot, that the workstations and other equipment actually started shutting off due to overheating.

Managment still bitched that we don't doing enough work, and we were like 'WTF do you expect us to do? It's so hot the equipment doesn't work. Fix your equipment'.

The reply was basically, "We're not getting AC. Here a couple of desk fans, use these to keep the workstations cool. The work still needs to get done. If you have to go slow during the middle of the day, then you'll need to work harder in the early mornings'.
 
I'd officially file a complaint with your boss, telling them that you believe it's an OSHA violation.

As for this whole manual labor vs desk job thing, sitting in an office is numbing as it is. It would be intolerable if you were sweating the whole time.
 
Chaotic42 said:
I'd officially file a complaint with your boss, telling them that you believe it's an OSHA violation.

As for this whole manual labor vs desk job thing, sitting in an office is numbing as it is. It would be intolerable if you were sweating the whole time.
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Not to mention your half skim iced mocha latte gettin' warm an all. The horror!
 
bignateyk said:
... would you just say fuck it and go home?

The AC has been broken for the last couple weeks in this section of the building and with outside temperatures pushing 95 degrees, my office is pushing a hundred degrees (the thermometer has maxed out at 100). It's so hot I feel like I might pass out.
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I would, and, in fact, I have.

MotionMan
 
I'm a cook in Florida, the kitchen easily reaches 120-160 degrees, even with a 2ton AC unit blowing in (very small kitchen, maybe 14 x 24 feet). It's damn near impossible to think in there unless your in a sweaty zone. TBH I would prefer a 90-100 degree desk job, but I get paid more now than I would starting anywhere else. Made $78K net last year, not including $1k a month cash bonus.
 
bignateyk said:
Yeah.. I have a big box fan blowing on my from 2 feet away and that still doesn't help much.

I can't work from home (security clearance stuff), and I don't have vacation to burn, so it would be more like fuck it, I'm going home, you can't expect me to work in these conditions.
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Just post teh sekrets on ATOT and you'll get a nice, cold room.
 
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