This office has never been particularly well airconditioned. Mostly it’s too hot in both winter and summer, although a few years ago it was the opposite, so that I kept a sweater in my desk for the days when it was too over airconditioned in the summer. But in the last couple of years, we keep getting “emergency power reduction program in effect”, which means that they’ve turned off at least one of the building’s chillers, usually because one of the (formerly belonging to the company, now sold off to some other organization) power generators is off-line.
Today it’s bloody hot in the office, and of course this is a day when I chose to wear a long sleeve shirt.
I once turned up for my first day at a new job, to be told that the air conditioning was broken.
They had a server room (don’t they always?) which desperately needed cooling, so they’d brought in some standalone air conditioner units. These units were fitted with long exhaust tubes, which had been trailed out of the server room, across the hallway, and into a vacant office with an open window.
Which was now my office. And despite my (polite, first-day manners) concerns, the exhaust tubes had to stay.
Oh, and the radiators were on as well, and couldn’t be turned off.
And it was July.
And I was wearing a suit and tie.
So although it won’t ease your discomfort, I can at least assure you that it could be worse!
Barry, I hope that wasn’t in Thailand!
It was in Milton Keynes.
Which makes it somehow worse…