Thanks to Rachel for bringing to light another key battleground for office passive-aggressives: the thermostat.
When you get down to it
May 20th, 2007 · 24 comments
FILED UNDER: "helpful" advice · New York · office · temperature
Thanks to Rachel for bringing to light another key battleground for office passive-aggressives: the thermostat.
FILED UNDER: "helpful" advice · New York · office · temperature
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#1
Graham
Ya know, this one is pretty darn reasonable. I’ve witnessed some much less productive AC-related conversations in offices I’ve spent time in…
May 21, 2007 at 4:40 pm rating: 25
#2
Wedge
yeah, this one isnt too bad imho. i once had a roommate *superglue* the thermostat to like 72F in early autumn.
May 21, 2007 at 5:59 pm rating: 7
#3
paul
do you have to note that this is reasonable? what the fuck has the internet become?
May 21, 2007 at 7:51 pm rating: 2
#4
John
Better yet, what is up your arse paul? Take a pill.
May 22, 2007 at 12:02 am rating: 10
#5
sbrainb
put a fucking sweater on!!!
May 22, 2007 at 11:36 am rating: 0
#6
Marcy
Oh, dear. I am guilty of scribbling a note at my office and taping it over the thermostat. Mine was many words shorter, and far more…er, pointed.
*ahem*
Our system can’t handle the load during high summer, but we have ONE executive who against all natural law, insists that turning the thermostat down to 60 degrees or below when it’s already overloaded and can’t keep up, will actually make it 60 degrees within a few minutes.
No matter how many times it doesn’t work, he keeps doing it. I finally snapped, because I’m the one who is here first in the morning…and who then has to turn on the heat, because the office is 58 instead of 72 where it’s supposed to be.
Oh, well.
May 22, 2007 at 4:14 pm rating: 7
#7
angie
My old boss had a west facing office. I was in the office next to him and faced north. His office heated up in the afternoon to over 80 degrees. Mine was cooled to 55 since he controlled the AC. I used to drink hot chocolate in the summer, bring wool blankets in and have to run my hands under hot water to be able to get the joints to move. I find male employees to be the worst – They are hot, therefore all must be cooled…as opposed to having an icey drink or taking off a jacket. Women, who run cooler are told to deal with it, have a hot drink and put on a sweater. I live in LA and I hate AC with a passion.
May 23, 2007 at 12:50 am rating: 18
#8
Kelsey
You had to do all that in *55* degree weather? That’s not cold at all. You LA people are crazy
May 23, 2007 at 3:43 pm rating: 2
#9
Lis
Who wears a coat when it is 55 outside?
Or am I nuts since I’m moving to Fairbanks?
May 23, 2007 at 10:59 pm rating: 2
#10
Melissa
Did anyone else notice the menacing shadow of the thermostat over the note?
Jun 5, 2007 at 2:19 pm rating: 5
#11
anon
Man, 55 is swimming weather where I come from… Haha, I remember I was visiting relatives in California once… they all freaked out about how cold it was when it dropped to -gasp- 60.
And then they ran for cover because it started to drizzle. o.0
Jun 12, 2007 at 2:52 pm rating: 0
#12
Spruce Moose
Please remember that in California the plumbing freezes at 60. But then, we don’t complain about the 100+ summer days, either.
Jun 26, 2007 at 3:32 pm rating: 1
#13
JD
Spruce Moose,
While I realize that some would say that California is in a parallel universe, I’m pretty sure that everything freezes at the same temperature there as it does everywhere else.
Jun 26, 2007 at 9:24 pm rating: 11
#14
jerryskid
In most offices men are stuck having to wear wear suits and ties, while women can wear short skirts, coulottes, and other cooler clothes. This is why men are usually the ones who are hot.
Jul 25, 2007 at 12:55 am rating: 4
#15
Abigail
Who in their right mind wears coulottes anymore?
Sep 12, 2007 at 10:15 pm rating: 4
#16
phoenix
i had a coworker that used the “turn it all the way down and it will cool faster” logic…
our poor accounting woman’s office was right under the first vent…
i can still hear her beautiful russian accent “what are you trying to do?!?! turn me into a popsicle?!?!”
Dec 31, 2007 at 7:18 am rating: 4
#17
Alfred
My girlfriend is also of the doesn’t-quite-understand-how-a-thermostat-works variety. She’ll insist that setting the furnace to 80 will actually make it reach our desired temperature of 68 faster, and she will further insist that setting the AC to “9-Coldest” will give our overloaded AC a better chance of fighting the overwhelming mid-afternoon heat, when all it really does is make us freezing in the morning. I have tried to reason and argue with her, but she continues to defy all my attempts to help her understand how these systems work. Her difficulty with math doesn’t help, nor does her stubbornness.
I have a theory that some people, no matter what, will never truly understand how a thermostat works. Perhaps it’s a genetic thing, the ability to understand this. That would explain why she’s an arts major and I’m an engineering major.
Jun 16, 2008 at 1:11 pm rating: 2
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