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Do you ever have arguments in your workplace about whether it's too hot or too cold, whether doors/windows should be open/shut and whether heaters or coolers should be on or off?

MarkH, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've just had a little argument on this topic, demonstrating the oddness of human thermoregulation.

MarkH, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

we all agree that our office is too hot.

I'm thinking of saying "give me a ring when the air conditioning's been fixed, I'm out of here".

DV, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We have arguements about the ceiling fan. It's very big, and when it's on top speed it wobbles around, and I get worried that it will fly off and end up crushing me.

jel --, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

grr don't even get me started on this. it's freezing in here today, and whenever the temperature rises above this my boss kicks up a huge fuss, moaning to everyone who'll listen about how "tearingly hot" it is, ringing up maintenance and moaning, making people move boxes on top of shelves because they're blocking the air supply from the air conditioners... i mean i really couldn't give a shit. if it's cold i'll PUT A FUCKING CARDIGAN ON but she just goes on and on and ON about it...

katie, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

recently we had a thermo survey where we all had to state how chilly or warm we were - im nearly always cold so i kinda over expressed my chilly-ness (problem was i lost my sheet so it still real cold here)

i hate offices

born clippy, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In my first job in Oxford I worked in a small office with about seven people in it, two of whom were managers. One of the managers was always too hot, the other always too cold. There was a cooler in the office, of the type which works through the same vent as the heater. The manager who was always too hot would tell me to switch it on the moment the other manager was out of the room. Then the other manager would return and say that not only was it cold, but the cooler would give us all Legionnaire's disease. As soon as Mr Hot went out, Mr Cold would order me to turn the cooler off. And so it went on. Every day.

MarkH, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This must surely be in the top 3 most argued about things in offices? Our air conditioning is ridiculous and makes some parts of the room icy and others bearable so Mr Annoying Colleague goes & turns it off leaving me shouting / glaring / suffering in silence depending on my mood.

Emma, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We have no air-conditioning! I'm always complaining about sick building syndrome, I can't wait til we move. I may even have my very own roof top garden! yay!

jel --, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I forgot the flip side of overheating in the office which is the sexual harassment perpetuated by northern male colleagues who are used to icy temperatures and rather than taking their suit jackets off when they think it's a bit warm insist on turning on the air conditioning with the ensuing effects on their delicate southern female colleague in a bit of a tight top (i.e me).

Emma, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The current state of our offices aircon means that everyone agrees that it is too damn hot.

RickyT, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nope, we generally agree on too hot/too cold issues, right now thankfully due to FAN and a breeze coming through the window (last night I thought that breezes had been banned by an EU directive or something) so we are just about coping.

Sarah, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ensuing effects - classic or dud?

Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My office is my office so it will follow my dictates on how hot or cold it should be. However not having any air con I am at the whim of passing zephyrs, and being south facing makes it too hot all the year round. Which is why I have shorts on.

Pete, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So in what way, exactly, is the temperature of your office following your dictates? Are you GOD or something?

Emma, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"should be" Emma.

Graham, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what's an office?

chris, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hahahaha good question. (i work in a petrol station)

Ronan, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't work at all *sigh*

chris, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what's work?

Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have the day off today so I choose the temperature, in work the air conditioning isn't working so it's like working inside one of those silver foil trays you get chinese takeaways in.

Ronan, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it's this thing

jel --, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

At the moment we all agree it's too hot, but this doesn't avoid arguments as it becomes a fight to the death over the fans and which area/room they should be in. Also there is one Japanese student who claims he cannot do any work in these temperatures and seems convinced we will install air conditioning just for him.

Archel, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Have now convinced myself that ceiling fan is making me feel sick.

jel --, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's not a Raffles fan is it? I have a real phobia of those after seeing a film (I'm sure it was a James Bond though have been unable to prove this) where some bloke got caught up in one and strangled / hung himself. I am convinced they are going to fly off and decapitate people in the vicinity. They often have them in curry houses etc. so I have to eat with one eye on the fan in case of disaster.

Emma, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

that happens in the second indiana jones

Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I also have a fear of electric library roof furniture after the incredibly noisy roof windows in the school library. No matter how many times I'd previously worked out what it was, I still kept imagining it was the SAS trying to cut themselves in or something.

Graham, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh no I remember one time I was having a meal in oh-so-classy Maxwells and there was a VERY drunk group at the table next to us and they kept standing on their chairs and putting their hands up near the raffles fans, I was so horrified I almost couldn't eat my dinner (but bravely battled on despite being convinced I would end up with a finger in my fajita).

Emma, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'A Finger In My Fajita' - one of those 'quirky' travel/cook books, surely?

Archel, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh dear, I have a dirty mind as when I was typing it I thought 'heh heh sounds a bit rude'.

Emma, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was thinking it was like what they'd call a meal at the end of Ready Steady Cook, I can imagine Anthony Worrell Thompson going "well since I mutilated my finger and dropped it in, me and Mary are going to call this dish finger in my fajita"

Ronan, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Vicar - just open a window - and let the RAIN in

"all Ireland is washed by the Gulf Stream"

the pinefox, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

At school during choir kids are always running from one end of the room to another, opening and shutting the door in between songs. It's like war. The sopranos are always dying of heat and the altos are always freezing and the boys don't seem to care.

Maria, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha my colleague Conrad and I have this sorted in our office. One of us says to the other "Isn't it a bit hot in here?", the other agrees and turns the heating down or air conditioner up. We don't consult anyone else in case they disagree with us. So far, there is not muttering and putting on cardigans, so we are assuming that there is no real dissension.

Martin Skidmore, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven months pass...
Our air conditioning broke at 8PM tonight. It's 87 degrees in the office. For once, everyone is in agreement.

James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I always lose. It's always too too cold. I sit by a window and I keep the blinds open so the sun hits me all day.

Sarah McLUsky (coco), Thursday, 17 July 2003 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

one of my Spanish colleagues (I have three, soon to be four) is always complaining that she is too cold and sits in the office with about five layers of clothing on when the rest of us are in shirts or T-shirts. She is also always falling asleep in the afternoons.

I now work in an office which is twice as big and twice as open plan as the one I worked in when I started this thread, making any localised control of temperature impossible.

MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 17 July 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

whats a window?
the ac here is controlled by some unknown power. procedure calls for emailing "climate control" with any problems, but they never listen. we have had days in december when it has been 90' in the office.

kephm, Thursday, 17 July 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Every woman in every office that I've ever worked in is constantly cold. At first I thought I was somehow responsible but how could that be with me always hitting on them?

lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 17 July 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

i can understand spanish girls falling asleep in the afternoons. they miss their 'siesta'! :-)

joan vich (joan vich), Thursday, 17 July 2003 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got the "I smell smoke!!!!" lady.

She used to "smell smoke" like three times a week. She'd walk around the office shrilly asking everyone if they smelled smoke (which nobody did, but a few may have said they did either out of sympathy or because they'd been psychologically badgered into ACTUALLY smelling smoke). Invariably this would disrupt the entire office for about a half an hour each time and the boss would get involved, etc. etc.

So finally she started getting the building maintenance people to come up (about three times a week). They'd walk around, look out the windows, assure her they'd check out the smell and promptly leave with puzzled looks on their faces. Poor guys.

She's tapered off now, thank god.

fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Thursday, 17 July 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

office romance is classic--
From: Kelly Tripplehorn [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 2:11 PM
Subject: you suck

Well, as of this afternoon, I was planning on ruining your career by making phone calls to all of my parents friends and have you blackballed from the workplace as well as every prestigous law school in the country, but then (lucky for you) I decided not to do that because you are a sad sad person and I will just let your life self destruct right before my eyes.

Michele I am sorry, I don't care how big of sadistic fucked up crush you have on me but people like me simple don't date people like you. You are too competitive with me and you just simply will never be better than me. I will always have more friends than you just because I don't care about beating people and lying to get to the top. (You are an absolute hipocrit in everything that you do, I am not going to go into details why you are because that would be a waste of my time and yours but I can assure you if you were to ever meet yourself you would hate your twin) I have told most all of the staff about our situation now and they already knew you were really messed you. They said when you were talking to them about me, they all told me you had 'serious issues' and that every word you said sounded scripted and they knew without a doubt that you were lying. I have noticed that people who you think are your good friends actually really dislike you but unlike me, they will not tell you to your face because they would rather be fake nice to you than be your enemy.

Now talking about how I am obsessed with money, I simply am not. You are. You always are trying to impress me by how much money you have and I don't care. The difference is though I talk about it but it is never about bragging and it is never directly about money, it is always directly about the conversation. For instance, someone will ask, what are you doing for july 4rth. And then I will say I am going to aspen. It is a simple fact that I am but since you don't have a house in aspen, you get offended because of your competitive nature. When you talk about money you will say something like UT's tuition is 5% of your family's income, thus my tuition would be 125,000. Yea, Michele you are right, I brag too much about what I have.

Well I am just going to stop writing because you are just absolutely beneath me. I have heard that you try to undermine people all the time that are better than you and everysingle time it does not work because people can see through such shallowness and that is why as I have heard so many times, Most "everyone at UT absolutely hates you." For instance even the people that you thought were your friends Mellissa Mahaffey or that girl you met at espn, they hate you, they just never say anything. Everyone knows you are a pathetic social climber who will go to any discusting means to move up the ladder. But guess what Michele, you will never move up the ladder because I am at the top and people like me hate people like you. You might be able to trick people like me for maybe a month or so but your true personality comes through after a while and it is vile, if that. You have sooooo many people that absolutely hate you and you will never know it because they will never say anything to your face. You will not succeed in life and even the staff thinks that also, after I told them about the things that you do. You suck and good luck being miserable for the rest of your life. I do not even know why I wasted my time typing this for suck slime. Everyone tells me that you are so beneath me (which you are) and I should not get worked up over suck trifles. By the end of the day if I wanted to, I could make a phone call and have your life absolutely ruined but there is no need because you are falling fast enough towards failure without me. In the end, all I can say is that people love me and people hate you. You should observe me and take a few notes on how to make real friends. Other than you tieing this one other person, I have never had such little respect for a human being in my life. I don't even have to tell you why because in my very accurate analysis that most everyone else agrees with, if you were to agree with my analyis about your character than my whole entire analysis would be wrong. Your inflamed ego has left you so blind and so impotent that you can nto even recognize the most obvious flaws in yourself. All your old roommates absolutely hated you and you still think the problem is with them, not you. Well I talked to your roommates and I thought they nice normal girls. So naturally, you would not fit in with them because you are so intellectually above them all. Right? You suck at life and you need to figure out why or you will be miserable for the rest of your life.

Once again from your intellectual, moral, social, and emotional superior,
Paul Kelly Tripplehorn, Jr.

keith (keithmcl), Friday, 18 July 2003 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Nice chap.

colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 18 July 2003 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

That is from the Onion or something, yes?

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 July 2003 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

Once again from your intellectual, moral, social, and emotional superior,
Paul Kelly Tripplehorn, Jr.

― keith (keithmcl), Friday, 18 July 2003 02:23 (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

RIP big man

http://thevinylvillage.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/rip-paul-kelly-tripplehorn-jr/

Seanadams Molloy (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 11 December 2008 00:28 (seventeen years ago)


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