How hot is your workplace this week and how are you coping?

[noblegiraffe]

Just wondering really. Mine is 28-29 degrees and I'm coming home feeling ill with it. Teacher - used to shitty working conditions, feel really sorry for the kids who are meant to be learning in it.

What's it like where you work?

Same. Everyone wears a jacket/ jumper and so this week it's been great

Since moving to a new build it's not too bad. But you all have my sympathies in the old building I worked in it regularly reached 35-40 degree. And it was far too hot.

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I WFH so it's about 25°c in the spare room where I work.
DH works in a cold chain moving food into refrigerated lorries. He wears a fleece and gloves winter and summer at work.

That’s a silly post. We are not set up for this kind of weather. Continental Europe has buildings equipped for heat because they know they are going to get it. We do not. So we are rubbish in the heat and in extreme cold.

Nhs community work home visits today, writing up my notes in my car, it's like an oven when I get in so need aircon on to cool down between visits, a man taps on the window and had a go at me for damaging the environment having engine running, seriously had to bite my tongue as was in work uniform.

Went to a few nursing homes that had the heating on 🫠

@noblegiraffe same here teaching- wise. Earlier in the week we had to evacuate the classroom all day. The rads in the room are on all year because they are fed by the hot water system - great in winter- not so much fun in weeks like this. Blinds down, windows that open a tiny amount- no through air. Packed classroom of sweaty, hot bodies. I love heat , but this makes me fee physically sick at work.

I had the blinds down yesterday and it got to 30 degrees, so I think it is going to heat up whatever I do!

How on earth do you not just pass out at 47 degrees?

I work in Tesco. It's lush.
But I used to work in a horrid factory that got to 28-35c regularly with physical work and we couldn't wear shorts. Had to be trousers.
My flat is boiling to

@noblegiraffe we work very slowly with wet chef tops and wet towels around our necks .
We are also in an kitchen with no window.
We take it at turns to do the hot section and grill . So no longer than 30 mins at a time.
It's exhausting but you literally know it's going to be horrendous,so you mentally prepare and crack on.

What I don't get is that there are people who prefer 20-22 in the winter when you are dressed for it, boots and woollens, but then say 26-28 is too hot in summer clothing. Seems that they operate within an extremely narrow range of temperatures!

I can't understand why people can't understand that trying to education 30+ overheated, fractious kids in very hot, airless rooms is stressful and migrain- inducing.
Fellow sufferers, I bought a pack of chill towels from Amazon. You wet them, wring them out and 'flick' them a few times. They go cold and are narrow enough to wrap around your neck without looking weird. I slept with one worn like a headband last night..

That's horrifying. I think that no meal is worth doing that to another human being. People must get ill/quit?

It must be tempting to say "this week's menu is salad and cold ham".

@noblegiraffe the thing with hot weather is that people do not want to cook so they eat out more.
It is what it is.
Lucky it's normally only a couple a weeks a year that are exceptionally hot

I hybrid work - been about 22⁰ wfh but my tiny broom cupboard office has AC so it's been a blissful 19⁰.

I'm a fainter in heat, overweight and peri menopausal so have to be very careful not to overheat. Once had heat exhaustion in Scotland in April.

Hats off to you, I couldn't do it (aside from the fact that I can't cook). I hope your management appreciate it.

I wonder if, given that we are going to be getting an increasing number of exceptionally hot weeks each year, whether working practices are going to have to change.

I wonder if, given that we are going to be getting an increasing number of exceptionally hot weeks each year, whether working practices are going to have to change.

I would hope so. It has been exceptionally tough for people in education and hospitality. It can't have been much fun for those sitting exams either.

When we had temperatures in the mid 30s last year I thought I wold prefer to work in our air conditioned office, but we were told not to come in because the roads were melting.

I'm lovely and cool as we have air conditioning. However I spent 16 years working in a hospital and it was bloody awful every summer. I used to feel so ill.

We are told often “there is no such thing as bad weather just bad clothing. “

We are British we complain about the weather it is our right.

Today I’m back to wearing a jumper as its 22c in Lincolnshire.

I work outdoors so - very hot and humid and unpleasant generally.

Around 30

in the meeting room it was 32

makes me feel very sleepy