• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Okay...it's 55F in my lab this morning.....

F

Fausto

Elite Member
Fscking POS federal buildings. I can't wait until they knock this heap down and give me a lab that isn't self-destructing every other day. :|

12/15/04- Instead of being 55F, it's now 93F in my office. I think I'm going to get naked in protest until they get this sh*t figured out. :|
 
Haha! For a second I thought you must be working at our lab. Our boiler is out and the only thing helping warm the lab is heat coming off the incubators, autoclaves, and other assorted equipment. My office, since it has a window, is nearly freezing.
 
Originally posted by: CraigRT
ouch, that sucks.. my office is a tad on the cool side, but nice enough.. probably 70F
Click to expand...
I'm at 55 on the nose. I called and complained to Engineering and they're like "yeah, the whole building is calling in" and I'm like, "Well, maybe you should do something about it then, Sport." :roll:

FYI- I work in Bldg1, which is the original CDC building. As such, it's pretty much falling apart and the air handling has been messed with by so many different contractors over the years that nothing reall works correctly.
 
Originally posted by: Fausto
Originally posted by: CraigRT
ouch, that sucks.. my office is a tad on the cool side, but nice enough.. probably 70F
Click to expand...
I'm at 55 on the nose. I called and complained to Engineering and they're like "yeah, the whole building is calling in" and I'm like, "Well, maybe you should do something about it then, Sport." :roll:

FYI- I work in Bldg1, which is the original CDC building. As such, it's pretty much falling apart and the air handling has been messed with by so many different contractors over the years that nothing reall works correctly.
Click to expand...
Still beats the 30 degrees my shop was at this morning. Furnace quit sometime last night.

 
Originally posted by: Fausto
Originally posted by: CraigRT
ouch, that sucks.. my office is a tad on the cool side, but nice enough.. probably 70F
Click to expand...
I'm at 55 on the nose. I called and complained to Engineering and they're like "yeah, the whole building is calling in" and I'm like, "Well, maybe you should do something about it then, Sport." :roll:

FYI- I work in Bldg1, which is the original CDC building. As such, it's pretty much falling apart and the air handling has been messed with by so many different contractors over the years that nothing reall works correctly.
Click to expand...

Hopefully not the same contractors that handle containment????
 
Originally posted by: DnetMHZ
Originally posted by: Fausto
Originally posted by: CraigRT
ouch, that sucks.. my office is a tad on the cool side, but nice enough.. probably 70F
Click to expand...
I'm at 55 on the nose. I called and complained to Engineering and they're like "yeah, the whole building is calling in" and I'm like, "Well, maybe you should do something about it then, Sport." :roll:

FYI- I work in Bldg1, which is the original CDC building. As such, it's pretty much falling apart and the air handling has been messed with by so many different contractors over the years that nothing reall works correctly.
Click to expand...

Hopefully not the same contractors that handle containment????
Click to expand...
Heh...no. That's a totally different deal. The building with all the nasty stuff in it is very modern and secure.
 
Originally posted by: Fausto
Originally posted by: DnetMHZ
Originally posted by: Fausto
Originally posted by: CraigRT
ouch, that sucks.. my office is a tad on the cool side, but nice enough.. probably 70F
Click to expand...
I'm at 55 on the nose. I called and complained to Engineering and they're like "yeah, the whole building is calling in" and I'm like, "Well, maybe you should do something about it then, Sport." :roll:

FYI- I work in Bldg1, which is the original CDC building. As such, it's pretty much falling apart and the air handling has been messed with by so many different contractors over the years that nothing reall works correctly.
Click to expand...

Hopefully not the same contractors that handle containment????
Click to expand...
Heh...no. That's a totally different deal. The building with all the nasty stuff in it is very modern and secure.
Click to expand...

You should see what Southern Research has in Bham. You can stroll in and grab whatever nastiness you want rather easily.
 
Originally posted by: Mill
Originally posted by: Fausto
Originally posted by: DnetMHZ
Originally posted by: Fausto
Originally posted by: CraigRT
ouch, that sucks.. my office is a tad on the cool side, but nice enough.. probably 70F
Click to expand...
I'm at 55 on the nose. I called and complained to Engineering and they're like "yeah, the whole building is calling in" and I'm like, "Well, maybe you should do something about it then, Sport." :roll:

FYI- I work in Bldg1, which is the original CDC building. As such, it's pretty much falling apart and the air handling has been messed with by so many different contractors over the years that nothing reall works correctly.
Click to expand...

Hopefully not the same contractors that handle containment????
Click to expand...
Heh...no. That's a totally different deal. The building with all the nasty stuff in it is very modern and secure.
Click to expand...

You should see what Southern Research has in Bham. You can stroll in and grab whatever nastiness you want rather easily.
Click to expand...
I'm guessing they don't have any BSL4 organisms in there tho. At least.....I hope they don't. :Q

 
Originally posted by: Fausto
Originally posted by: Mill
Originally posted by: Fausto
Originally posted by: DnetMHZ
Originally posted by: Fausto
Originally posted by: CraigRT
ouch, that sucks.. my office is a tad on the cool side, but nice enough.. probably 70F
Click to expand...
I'm at 55 on the nose. I called and complained to Engineering and they're like "yeah, the whole building is calling in" and I'm like, "Well, maybe you should do something about it then, Sport." :roll:

FYI- I work in Bldg1, which is the original CDC building. As such, it's pretty much falling apart and the air handling has been messed with by so many different contractors over the years that nothing reall works correctly.
Click to expand...

Hopefully not the same contractors that handle containment????
Click to expand...
Heh...no. That's a totally different deal. The building with all the nasty stuff in it is very modern and secure.
Click to expand...

You should see what Southern Research has in Bham. You can stroll in and grab whatever nastiness you want rather easily.
Click to expand...
I'm guessing they don't have any BSL4 organisms in there tho. At least.....I hope they don't. :Q
Click to expand...

Nah, they really are very secure. I was kidding about being able to walk in there. Actually, I think they do have BSL4 organisms. Let me see if I can find out. There was a guy in one of my classes that worked there and he was always talking about how they had tons of crazy sh!t there.
 
The gym was at a frosty 56 degrees this morning. Yesterday it was a sultry 79. Every day for the past few weeks it has been a different temperature extreme. Apparently there are a bunch of ass-clown children who work out at night and can't resist the forbidden pleasures of pushing the big shiny buttons on the thermostat.

And they don't ever rack their weights when they are done with them.
 
We had a peak of high-humidity days this past summer. Of course, the AC decided to fail on the new expansion they built for our labs (the people who did the HVAC screwed up royally, but that's another story). They managed to get half the AC working, luckily on our side of the hallway.

The labs on the other side of the hallway were so humid, however, that water was fogging up the windows and condensing. I felt really bad for those people.

You'd think they'd be on the ball about fixing it, but they weren't. Nothing screws up an FTIR's optical microscope like high humidity, we got like a week behind because we couldn't use it.

Another time, the HVAC system started bringing in air from the outside and the furnace wasn't running. It did this all night, and since no one works there at night, no one complained. When I rolled in in the morning and unlocked the labs, it was so cold I could almost see my breath.
 
Sounds about on par 😉

We normally keep our building nice a toasty, year round... cause the boilers (normally) work great, but the A/C... not so much.

I was sitting at the front desk this morning, talking to a Sheriff's Deputy... the head of maintenance came running up to the desk, asking if the alarm monitoring facility had called, reporting a boiler failure any time lately... He just happened to need something from the boiler room, so he walked in, and noticed that the boilers weren't doing anything. We have a weird boiler system... if set #2 goes down, then set #1 can take the load, and keep the building at a reasonable temperature, until set #2 is back up. But if set #1 goes down, then I guess we're SOL. And guess which set of boilers went down this morning...

The ambient temperature in the building has been slowly dropping for the last couple of hours. Unless they get the boilers back online tonight, there's no way that they're holding class here tomorrow 😀
 
Originally posted by: Fausto
Fscking POS federal buildings. I can't wait until they knock this heap down and give me a lab that isn't self-destructing every other day. :|
Click to expand...

They didn't build a new one yet? Dept of Homeland Security was supposed to have a new one built for you guys by now. Bet the money went into a lot of pockets.



 
FYI: When the temperature inside has been bumped to 77 degress (F), typing mistakes go down by 40%. I'm not agreeing that the inside temp should be that high, but I do know there is a greater chance for typing mistakes in a cold environment. The information regarding the typing mistakes was released via the news a few months back.

 
Originally posted by: Tiles2Tech
FYI: When the temperature inside has been bumped to 77 degress (F), typing mistakes go down by 40%. I'm not agreeing that the inside temp should be that high, but I do know there is a greater chance for typing mistakes in a cold environment. The information regarding the typing mistakes was released via the news a few months back.
Click to expand...

I think it has more to do with the fingers being cold. I know that my fingers are a lot smoother and nimble when they're warm.

Great idea. Come up with some kind of keyboard that warms itself. Maybe a small warming fan. That way, businesses can still freeze the employees but not have to deal with all the typos!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top