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[telophase]

HEY EVERYONE GUESS WHAT?! IT'S 62°F IN MY OFFICE RIGHT NOW! AND HAS BEEN SINCE MONDAY!



Apparently there's a broken heating element and they already turned the A/C on. I'm sure there's terribly complicated reasons for not being able to turn the A/C off, as there always is in large buildings, but GAAAAH

Comments

[ninja-tech.livejournal.com]

Isn't it crazy how in the summer you need to have winter clothes at your office and in the winter you need to be able to shed a layer at work? What is so hard about a steady 70 or 72 degrees??

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I know! Right now I'm wearing four layers of clothing (tank top, shirt, heavy sweatshirt, leather jacket) *and* have a contraband space heater going, and the side of me not facing the heater is still cold. ARGH

[chomiji]

And I betcha wish you had some fingerless gloves, too. What a pain! Yes, the environmental management of large buildings is a really ugly problem. The recent rapid temperature changes in the weather out here have been causing some unpleasant variance in my office too - mostly, by late afternoon, I'm steaming hot and getting a headache. Wish I could send some of the heat your way!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

At my previous job, the four-story building was divided into quadrants, with each quadrant having its own HVAC unit on the roof to control its environment.

Apparently the genius who came up with this system forgot that HEAT RISES, so we, on the second floor, were always freezing while the fourth floor was baking, and we couldn't get our heat turned higher without turning the fourth floor into an approximation of Death Valley.

Naturally, this was the Architecture building. *headdesk*