AIBU to hate air conditioning?

[Bunbaker]

I am getting more and more infuriated by the incredibly wasteful use of air conditioning in buildings that don't need it. In the summer months I have to wear warm clothes to work because the air con is too fierce. We don't even need air conditioning. What is wrong with just opening the window FGS?

Last week on holiday in Croatia the weather was unseasonably cool. In the evenings the temperature dipped to near single figures, yet they still had air con on in the dining room and the bar. Why?

What a monumental waste of electricity!

YABU. Very much so.

It's not air con that's your issue. It's the people who use it.

Dries my contact lenses out something rotten.

I don't get your post *Tiggy" I can't control the aircon at work. And why would a hotel need aircon when it is 12 degrees outside and the windows/doors are open?

I used to wear contacts and I agree that air con is a contacts wearer's enemy.

Yep another contacts wearer here - can barely do a day in them in the summer with the air con! YANBU

In those situations the people in charge of the aircon should not have switched it on.
I was in a nursery the other day and the temperature was very very hot. You started sweating the second you moved and everybody was lethargic. Then somebody mentioned they had air conditioning so I turned it on and in half an hour everybody was feeling happy again. Was that aircon bad?

I don't think you understand my point Tiggy. I only find aircon wasteful when it clearly isn't needed. I live in Yorkshire, we have very few days in the year when we really need air con. I have asked at where I work and apparently the office set up doesn't allow the aircon to be switched off. So sometimes we have aircon and fan heaters on at the same time - madness.

most buildings now are designed by idiots. Windows don't open so aircon is used, it is horrible. Also no-one ever turns off computers so loads of waste heat is generated.

nowhere in UK should need aircon unless it is a room that has to be sealed for a good reason.

the reverse also annoys me - shops with doors wide open, heating on full blast and staff in thin clothes. Turn off the heat and give them jumpers.

"nowhere in UK should need aircon unless it is a room that has to be sealed for a good reason."

I totally agree. We have to switch computers off at work. We have a dedicated energy monitor who checks everyone's desks each evening to check that the computer and screen have been switched off. Which makes the wasteful over use of aircon even more ironic.

Your question was "AIBU to hate air conditioning?" - answer yes.

If your question was 'AIBU to hate unecessary air conditioning?" answer no.

Aircon has a sort of smell I don't like as well - urgh

Yes, I should have put the word unnecessary in the title.

Yanbu.

I wear winter clothes to work all year round . My contact lenses dry out too.

If it hits 100 degrees then (maybe) I'd tolerate the air con on, but if I'm sitting at a desk then I don't need to be kept cool. I can't work in the cold, all I can think about is when I can have another tea and another trip to the loo to keep my body warm.

I hate it. I find it's almost always too cold in this country and also in the US where I spent a summer without it, I always had to take a sweatshirt to the cinema which drove me mad.

I have had a handful of experiences in the UK (mostly in central London and once in a travelodge in b'ham where I nearly roasted alive) where I wished there was aircon but mostly an open window and a fan would do the job just fine even on the hottest days.

Yasonotbu!!!!
Wonderful in many countries, unnecessary here.

YABU.

Nowhere is the UK should need aircon.

I have been known to leave shops because I hate it. Cold air. Blowing on me. Hideous. I wait all year for a bit of warmth, and then I'm subjected to aircon.

YANBU !!!!!

I remember staying at a hotel in Paris and bring worried about a host of negative reviews until I realised that the vast majority were from Americans who had clearly never heard that balcony doors open if you fancy some breeze and that air con in October is not a basic requirement.

YANBU

I detest it too, and yes in a general way

I would rather wear less clothing and get a bit hot on the few summer days we do get

I hate being frozen to ice when I can see a sunny, warm day outside. It is quite ridiculous.