What parts of previous jobs do you not miss in this heat?

[Auburngal]

With the recent hot n humid weather, what things don’t you miss from previous jobs in this heat?

Mine from working in a supermarket:
. Polyester fabric in the uniform. Clings to you like crazy
. Customers complaining that they are hot. Yet wearing a thick winter coat. Didn’t have the courage to mention well you are wearing a thick coat.

. The removing of stuff in chillers and freezers when alarms went off

. The temperature fluctuations. From chasing a customer who left her purse on the checkout at 32c. When returning into the store being asked by a colleague to put a bottle of leaking milk in the walk in freezer -28c!!! 60c difference in the space of 3 minutes. We put bottles of leaking milk in the freezer.

. Sorting out the stuff in the chillers making sure the stuff with that day’s date was in one area. Followed by stuff with next day’s date. Plus anything which you know customers are not going to buy next few days (3 days or less) such as stewing steak, fresh soup. Organising rollers so short dated stuff goes on before the overs once the chillers are ok for things to go back.

. Personal shopper for customers. Told to only limit the things to pick are milk, cream, salad, fruit. Otherwise we would have been there all day. The chillers had alarms go on them.

Operational role in a factory. Full ‘uniform’ of polo shirt, thick cotton cargo type trousers and steel toe capped boots. Hard hat and safety glasses.

Part of the time you could be in the factory which had a furnace area, in the forming ovens (both ridiculously hot) or in the packing area - all hot and humid. Testing emissions above ovens, climbing ladders and steps in chimneys and combustion systems.
Or working outside, no shade, in raw material areas that are dusty and dry. Yards were concrete that radiated heat and were bright in the sun and hard on the eyes after a while.
Glad I moved to a technical role, office based which has air con and absolutely no reason to be dusty, dirty or sweaty. 👍🏼

Frontline police officer.

Body armour, white shirts that you had to peel off your skin when you got home, black trousers, black armour cover, black high leg leather boots.

Add in dealing with all the dickheads in the world who are exponentially worse on a hot day, especially when drunk.

Inevitably leading to even longer shifts than usual doing all the bloody paperwork or dealing with the dickheads in custody. So you're even more knackered the next day and the next until it's rest days (if they haven't been cancelled for you) when you flop and finally get to deal with a week's worth of stinky uniform.

I do not miss any of that.

I was just thinking of this - used to live in Turkey and worked as a teacher. Would go off to school on the bus, teach all day in an old school with no aircon, home on the bus, do some shopping, then lug it back up 5 flights of stairs to my apartment, all in 30 degrees plus. I'd die now if I had to do that for one day.

For the first 40 years of my working life I was at two London based companies. For 30 years, before WFH became a thing, I had to commute to London every day. Travelling up wasn't too bad, as it was cool and I was at the beginning of the line. Coming home in hot weather was awful, jostling for a seat, hot trains, smelly people - don't miss that a bit.

Used to be a teacher, working in a newly-built school with all huge glass windows down one side of my classroom that got the sun all day. Only one window opened about 3 inches and had no blinds. Would regularly not drink during the day as knew didn’t have time to go to the bathroom so would feel really dehydrated by the end of the day and quite ill.