Casey in Human Resources may have moved on, but not to worry — Thx Sandra is here to solve our global climate crysis!
![Hello Ladies, This is your friend the thermostat. He likes to be at about 70 degrees in the winter and summer. If you are warm please look behind you and you will see a window. If you open that window fresh air will come in and cool you off. If you are cold you can use a space heater for $3 per week please see Casey in Human Resources if you need to sign up to rent one. Please be aware that our planet is in crysis [sic] and we need to take measures to reduce the trash we throw away and the energy we use (which includes the ceiling fan in Accounting!!!!!) and the recycle bins in the break room. I am sick of being the only conciensios [sic] person here. Thx, Sandra](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3195/2943065983_997bf38a35_o.jpg "Hello Ladies, This is your friend the thermostat. He likes to be at about 70 degrees in the winter and summer. If you are warm please look behind you and you will see a window. If you open that window fresh air will come in and cool you off. If you are cold you can use a space heater for $3 per week please see Casey in Human Resources if you need to sign up to rent one. Please be aware that our planet is in crysis [sic] and we need to take measures to reduce the trash we throw away and the energy we use (which includes the ceiling fan in Accounting!!!!!) and the recycle bins in the break room. I am sick of being the only conciensios [sic] person here. Thx, Sandra")
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The return of Thx Sandra
October 20th, 2008 · 149 comments
FILED UNDER: anthropomorphism · CAPS LOCK · clip art catastrophe · energy usage · exclamation-point happy!!!! · garbage · recycling · San Diego · spelling and grammar police · temperature · The Earth · thx
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#1
Gregg
As if using a space heater saves energy…
Oct 20, 2008 at 3:10 pm rating: 67
#2
RunBarbara
i never had space heaters to rent, i just had my own that i bought and brought in because my office was cold enough to house penguines.
sadly, more than once i had to rent it out for the approximate cost of an hour with mishee’s mom a few times a week because of this note.
Oct 20, 2008 at 3:13 pm rating: 22
#3
zchamu
“Consciensios”: The science of conning yourself into believing you make any fucking sense whatsoever.
Oct 20, 2008 at 3:14 pm rating: 103
#4
Frankie
RB do you work with all females or does she just target women only.
Oct 20, 2008 at 3:15 pm rating: 0
#5
Dina
This is quite possibly the longest note about not touching the thermostat in the history of the world-I mean come on-what was wrong with a simple “Please don’t touch the thermostat”?!
Oh, also:
Dear Sandra,
Please be consciensios about the environment when you print out these notes. The message could have come across just as effectively without your excessive waste of colored ink-use the black and white printer from now on, and lay off the clip art!
THX,
The Ladies.
Oct 20, 2008 at 3:17 pm rating: 25
#6
Ti O
I wondered if this is how she talks too?
Certifiable crazy person!
Oct 20, 2008 at 3:19 pm rating: 2
#7
Erica
Interesting… she suggests opening the window when the air is on, which WASTES electricity because it causes the A/C to keep running. Also, space heaters are usually banned in offices because they are fire hazards. Maybe she should research all this…?
Oct 20, 2008 at 3:19 pm rating: 17
#8
0falcon8
isn’t Crysis the ancient egyptian god of global warming?
Oct 20, 2008 at 3:21 pm rating: 48
#9
SchrodingersDuck
I wasn’t aware Sandra was an FPS fan. I doubt having a rig powerful enough to run Crysis is very consciensios though.
Oct 20, 2008 at 3:24 pm rating: 8
#10
secondsout
I like that it’s lower than 60 on the thermostat. I’m not believing that anyone sets the A/C to be that low; it just sounds like the office is really cold.
Oct 20, 2008 at 3:27 pm rating: 2
#11
0falcon8
HELLO SANDRA,
WE ARE ALSO SICK OF YOU BEING THE ONLY CONSCIENSIOS PERSON HERE. PLEASE HELP COMBAT GLOBAL WARMING AND REFRAIN FROM BLOWING HOT AIR AND RECYCLE YOURSELF TO ANOTHER JOB ELSEWHERE.
THX,
THE LADIES
Oct 20, 2008 at 3:29 pm rating: 57
#12
The Mayor of Bethville
Greenzo, out!
Oct 20, 2008 at 3:32 pm rating: 4
#13
secondsout
One quick way to reduce the trash is to stop printing out all these notes that just get tossed after the office makes fun of THX Sandra behind her back. But we don’t have time for rational solutions, now, do we?
Oct 20, 2008 at 3:33 pm rating: 3
#14
Dare
“… crysis and we need to take measures to reduce the amount of trash we throw away…”
I’ve got $10 that the next note left by SANDRA is one relating to the proper disposal of toilet tissue.
Oct 20, 2008 at 3:35 pm rating: 1
#15
Dina
Apparently, Sandra’s definition of “about 70 degrees” is a toasty 59.
What department does she work in-accounting?
Oct 20, 2008 at 3:36 pm rating: 6
#16
Mishee
Accounting is hard work. We need the ceiling fan to stir up the room air while we sit at our computers entering in numbers…
or commenting on PAN.
Either way, it gets stale in here!
Oct 20, 2008 at 3:38 pm rating: 2
#17
amy d
That thermostat is no friend of mine.
Oct 20, 2008 at 3:39 pm rating: 9
#18
biscuit
What did Accounting ever do to deserve a ceiling fan? They’re just cooking the books to get whatever they want.
Oct 20, 2008 at 3:43 pm rating: 4
#19
Mishee
The global climate crysis makes me wanna cry… sis…
Oct 20, 2008 at 3:43 pm rating: 5
#20
amy d
So, in order to combat global warming, we need to reduce:
1) Trash
2) Energy Used
3) Recycle Bins in the Break Room
Does not compute.
Oct 20, 2008 at 3:43 pm rating: 10
#21
claw71
I used to think the thermosat was my friend. We got along really well. We didn’t hang out together but our working relationship was exceptional.
Then one day I wan’t feeling to well and I went home early. I thought it was odd that my wife was home when I got there. I walked in and heard her in the bedroom moaning. “You’re so hot.”
I slowly pushed open the door and there she was, sprawled out inthe bed with my “friend” the thermostat.
Oct 20, 2008 at 3:48 pm rating: 24
#22
0falcon8
it looks like sandra ran through the PAN checklist for this one….
all caps…..CHECK
anthropomorphize thermostat…..yup
sarcastic logic regarding windows…..of course
misspellings…..yas
rant on tangent issues….yep
multiple exclaimation points….oh yeah!!!!!!
run-on sentences….yes and yes and yes and yes
disownership of everything wrong in the world…..roger that
clip art…..hells yeah
bravo, sandra, and thx
keep on keepin’ on
Oct 20, 2008 at 3:53 pm rating: 75
#23
RunBarbara
I am naming my black metal band Crysis. We are going to tour Norway and burn down some churches, we will write songs like “Fossil Fuel is made of Babies” and “Bastard Ozone”. Our first album will be called “No Thermostat in Hell”.
Oct 20, 2008 at 3:58 pm rating: 34
#24
anglophile
The use of a clip art urging recycling of newspapers on a note about the thermostat can only mean that I am supposed to build a newspaper bonfire in the middle of the room if I am too cold.
Oct 20, 2008 at 4:01 pm rating: 17
#25
Andy
Hmmmph. And here I thought my extended bathroom stays were my geo-friendly way of naturally “space heating”.
Oct 20, 2008 at 4:02 pm rating: 6
#26
amazon
HELLO SANDRA,
IF YOU ARE SICK OF BEING THE ONLY CONSIENSIOS PERSON HERE, PLEASE LOOK BEHIND YOU AND YOU WILL SEE A WINDOW. IF YOU OPEN THAT WINDOW, YOU CAN JUMP OUT IT.
THX,
LADIES
Oct 20, 2008 at 4:03 pm rating: 36
#27
wicked opinion
Um, Sandra? Thx for the suggestion of a space heater.So…. if we are NOT interested in saving energy and thus the world, we can rent possibly the worst machine on the planet in terms of energy conservation. Are there any other alternatives? Oh yes, I can use that $3 to buy resume paper to look for a new job.
Oct 20, 2008 at 4:06 pm rating: 8
#28
Canthz_B
Americans don’t save enough. We need to reduce the amount of trash we throw away, thereby increasing the amount of crap we save.
Oct 20, 2008 at 4:12 pm rating: 13
#29
Mishee
You know what THX SANDRA is really saying, don’t you?
She likes it at 69.
Dirty, dirty bird!
Oct 20, 2008 at 4:13 pm rating: 7
#30
HS
Dear Ladies,
I don’t know anything about renting space heaters for $3.
Please tell thx Sandra to stop sending people to me for everything!
Thanks,
Casey in Human Resources
Oct 20, 2008 at 4:22 pm rating: 2
#31
Canthz_B
Why is the Sun wearing shades? Who the fuck is shining in his eyes?!
Oct 20, 2008 at 4:31 pm rating: 70
#32
noah
I’m very concerned about the environment. Therefore, we will use energy inefficient space heaters and open the windows when the AC is on. Awesome.
Oct 20, 2008 at 4:45 pm rating: 7
#33
Singe
If I’d seen that in person, I would have passive-aggressively corrected all the spelling errors with a sharpie. Maybe even have assigned a grade.
Oct 20, 2008 at 4:51 pm rating: 17
#34
JoelWhy
Nothing helps to save the environment more than a condescending note written by a self-proclaimed do-gooder.
Oct 20, 2008 at 5:23 pm rating: 8
#35
secondsout
Don’t you guys know anything? Crysis is a Bob Dylan song. Lyrics:
It’s a big Crysis on the fifth day of May
59 Degrees in the office of HR
So I turned on the heat and the cold went away
My $3 heater rental wouldn’t get me very far
Sandra came to the office to water the plants
A lack of dumb notes on the office walls
She got on the ‘puter and searched some clip art
Printed it out and watched the temperature fall
The ladies in accounting approached the thermostat
They knew right away Sandra’s mind was kinda scary
She said, “Are you looking where the heater rental’s at?”
I said, “I got three dollars.” She said, “it’ll be necessary!”
At my computer, my hands covered in ice
She said, “there’s a crysis I’m trying to fix
If it’s 59 in here, our gas bill’s a low price
‘Twas then that we told her to suck all our dicks
Crysis oh Crysis, you mystical child
The writer of these notes is clearly insane
Crysis notes from Sandra and the PANners smiled
I’m not opening the window in the drizzling rain!
Oct 20, 2008 at 5:31 pm rating: 9
#36
leftfoot
I really don’t think 70 degrees in the summer is caring about the environment. (and how would opening a window when it’s 90 degrees outside cool you off anyhow?)
Oct 20, 2008 at 5:37 pm rating: 2
#37
GhostWriter
Hello, LADIES!
This is your friend, the rifle! You will take her to bed with you. You will take her to 69 through the Winter and the Summer. If you don’t got the balls for that, you can see Casey in HR to rent some, you slimy twinkle-toed maggots!
Son, you need to take measures to get your ass and head wired together. I AM SICK OF BEING THE ONLY CONSCIENTIOUS SOLDIER AROUND HERE, PYLE!!
Oct 20, 2008 at 5:53 pm rating: 1
#38
John McCain
My friends, that one doesn’t have an energy plan that is going to help America get through these trying times. I do. I know what it’s like to be cold. I know what it’s like to be hot. I spent most of my life in a POW camp.
But I don’t want to talk about that. I want to tell you about my friend, the thermostat. He doesn’t like to be pushed beyond 70 degrees inthe winter, but Senator Obama there seems to think that he can afford it. I know better because I listen to the thermostat. I also know that he doesn’t like to go much below 70 degrees in the winter, but that guy over there doesn’t know that. He doesn’t care. He thinks thermostats can be adjusted to any temperature at any time. That’s a recipe for failure. Our troops don’t want to fail.
I’m a maverick. When they first invented thermostats I was 60 years old. I didn’t learn how to use them. When I was a boy we lived in caves and hunted small dinosaurs for food. We didn’t even have fire then so I know how to use blankets when I’m cold and when it’s warm i take off all my clothes and roll in mud. It feels good.
I see no reason to bother the thermostat, my friends. And if you vote for me in Novemeber I never will and if we win in November I promise that Sarah Palin will conduct every press conference naked, on a polar bear skin rug. Negrobama over there won’t do that, will he?
Oct 20, 2008 at 6:09 pm rating: 64
#39
Vlad the impaler
Oh thank god THX Sandra is Back.
What a treat. What about poor Casey in HR? How does he feel about this never-ending stream of space-heater renters outside his cubicle?
CRYSIS? Fucking *precious*.
Oct 20, 2008 at 6:19 pm rating: 0
#40
Canthz_B
It’s not like San Diego is the land of the drastic temperature change really.
Oct 20, 2008 at 6:32 pm rating: 1
#41
Ella
Oh thank goodness!
Thx Sandra is also consciensios about the earth!
I thought I was the only one. That would be a cryses.
Oct 20, 2008 at 6:43 pm rating: 1
#42
Anthony
I understand heat is expensive, but how much does spellcheck cost?
Oct 20, 2008 at 6:47 pm rating: 22
#43
Brittany
I love that it’s not even currently on 70.
Oct 20, 2008 at 7:52 pm rating: 0
#44
Jojokittie
I just LOVE how it is set at 60. HAHAH!
Oct 20, 2008 at 8:03 pm rating: 2
#45
elviruz
I love this website!! you guys are hilarious.
anytime I’m feeling down, PAN brightens my day.
just like thx sandra’s sunshine
Oct 20, 2008 at 8:30 pm rating: 3
#46
Ash
Sandra, I feel for you. It’s hard being the only “consciensios” person around.
Oct 20, 2008 at 9:28 pm rating: 0
#47
SarahBelle
So, RB. Did you save all the THNX SANDRA notes when you left or are people from the office sending the PAN glory your way?
Oct 20, 2008 at 9:48 pm rating: 1
#48
aaa
You know, THX SANDRA is really good at being Al Gore’s bitch. She espouses the magic of being eco-friendly, yet encourages people to open the window when the heat’s on and to use space heaters. Like how Al Gore wants us all to not be killing on the environment, but uses more than many times the energy of the average American and owns a private jet. Ah, hypocrisy. It makes me proud to be an American.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/gorehome.asp
(Although one could make the argument that THX SANDRA is trying to get other people to be hypocrites while Al Gore is only making himself a hypocrite. Either way.)
Oct 20, 2008 at 9:53 pm rating: 5
#49
aaa
Crysis sounds like the name of a crappy heavy metal band.
Oct 20, 2008 at 9:56 pm rating: 0
#50
Canthz_B
You ain’t nothing but a thermostat,
Hanging on the wall.
Tears in the ocean to the climate,
And you ain’t no friend of mine!
Oct 20, 2008 at 10:13 pm rating: 7
#51
harmonicpies
Proof once again that PAN holds the key to reducing wasteful use of energy. And our engineering department thought they were so clever to just mount a fake thermostat on the office wall and laugh as we fought over the controls.
Oct 20, 2008 at 11:09 pm rating: 1
#52
Sydney
I can’t be the only one who wants to know what ACCOUNTING!!!!!! did to deserve the special Thx Sandra shout-out. I give Accounting 2 days to construct an effigy of Sandra out of discarded styrofoam coffee cups… in an effort to reduce, reuse, and recycle, of course.
Oct 20, 2008 at 11:48 pm rating: 1
#53
maude
I know what she means! I’m totally the only consciensios person I know too!!!!!!!!!
Oct 21, 2008 at 12:03 am rating: 1
#54
Toopillow
“Crysis” sounds like a disease. This woman is a disease – someone please smack her with a wet noodle.
Oct 21, 2008 at 12:19 am rating: 1
#55
Grace
Ironically, Sandra doesn’t realize that other than aluminum, recycling actually causes more pollution and costs more money.
Oct 21, 2008 at 12:20 am rating: 1
#56
The Prof
That space heater was fucking delicious.
Oct 21, 2008 at 1:42 am rating: 1
#57
Walrus
Disclaimer: unfunny but necessary.
Me=sick of management using environmental awareness as an excuse for them being cheap assholes. Hotels and Starbucks making me feel guilty for NOT using towels more than once or NOT taking more than one napkin makes me want to drown polar bears.
Oct 21, 2008 at 2:05 am rating: 4
#58
Cady
“Consciensios,” all the goodness of Doritos, but without the guilt.
Oct 21, 2008 at 2:05 am rating: 11
#59
Garcy
Actually, Crysis was an ancient Greek goddess worshipped by premenstrual women. I’ve worshipped at her altar many times. Favorite rituals include the gnashing of teeth, the blaming of boyfriends, and the mass consumption of chocolate.
Oct 21, 2008 at 10:32 am rating: 3
#60
I'm not anyone
Thx Sandra is my mom
(but she really does like 69!)
Oct 21, 2008 at 11:16 am rating: 0
#61
Goldie
I read the whole thread, and I still don’t understand how she knows the thermostat is a “he”. I shudder to think what she did with the poor device to find that one out.
Oct 21, 2008 at 11:41 am rating: 0
#62
FurryThomas
I like the fact that someone apparently fiddled with the thermostat before taking the picture.
Oct 21, 2008 at 11:53 am rating: 0
#63
thirty six red
DEAR SANDRA,
YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY PERSON CONCERNED WITH WASTE AND ENERGY.
PLEASE CONTACT ME:
MARVIN @ OBERLIN COLLEGE
Oct 21, 2008 at 12:18 pm rating: 4
#64
WackyWalrus
Thanks, I’ve been waiting for somebody to put the ‘cry’ in ‘crisis’.
Oct 21, 2008 at 12:51 pm rating: 2
#65
Eric Gaffney
Greatest Sebadoh reference in a p/a note so far, nice job Thx Sandra.
Oct 21, 2008 at 2:16 pm rating: 0
#66
tana
I think there’s more than one crysis Sandra is dealing with.
Oct 21, 2008 at 3:20 pm rating: 0
#67
Goldie
Hey guess what, I just ran into Sandra in the hallway. “Rent a space heater from me,” she said. Sandra looked scary, so for my own safety I said, “Sure, how much?”. She looks at me and says: “I need about three-fitty”. And that’s when I saw… it was not Sandra at all. It was that goddam Loch Ness Monster again!
Oct 21, 2008 at 4:20 pm rating: 9
#68
hamburke
So I read this to my husband and he got angry. Apparently, they have a space heater problem in the winter (I think his office is warm and I never think offices are warm). A newer space heater will draw 11 W. The breaker will trip at 17 W so add 11 W to the energy needed to power the computer, dual monitor and phone (lights are on a different circuit) and it’s a recipe for tripping the breaker which my husband then has to deal with. They even send out a reminder in the fall (it went out last week) explaining the reason why you can’t use a space heater and presenting the proper channel to get the temperature changed in your space.
Oct 21, 2008 at 6:27 pm rating: 0
#69
grumpygranolagirl
When I am cold, I put on my Mongolian BBQ hat.
Oct 22, 2008 at 7:57 am rating: 7
#70
Tmarie
Runbarbara (Casey):
I’m dying to know… did you tell the owner what this crazy lady had done, when you finally left the company?
I would have had the dude out to lunch and gone NUTS.
Oct 22, 2008 at 1:17 pm rating: 1
#71
Lindsay
“Crysis”- see Casey in Human Resources for a spell check
Oct 23, 2008 at 11:46 am rating: 1
#72
violet
sandra needs to use spell check before posting any future environmental missives. she is causing a grammar “crysis” by not being “consciensios” enough.
Nov 5, 2008 at 7:11 pm rating: 0
#73
Mudhooks
When I was in art college, I took lecture classes in a “room cold enough to house penguins” in winter.
I was freezing my ass off with my parka, gloves, scarf and toque (wool hat for non-Canadians) while trying to take notes and keep from getting hypothermia and this ass actually opened the window. I got up and closed it. He got up and opened it and said that maybe I “should dress warmer”….
Since he was one of those students who tended to the 14 sweaters, 11 pairs of wool socks stuffed in rubber boots, and much body hair (women included) form of dress, I pointed out that maybe HE should take off a sweater or two if he was so fucking hot and that if he stopped opening the windows in the middle of winter, maybe the school fees would go down.
Nov 10, 2008 at 10:00 pm rating: 0
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