to think they're trying to kill me off?? (Office thermostat thread)

[MyNameIsWinkly]

I work in a sealed office, can't open the windows. Granted I've felt a little warmer since I've been pregnant but really, is there any need for the thermostat to be set to twenty five degrees? I have been disgustingly hot all day. I took off my cardigan, all I had on my top half was a (not very appropriate for the office) vest top. I've been sipping cold water all day. I've been melting.

Towards the end of the day I had brutal heartburn which vanished in my lovely cool car heading home. There is no need to set the temperature to 25 degrees, unless as I said, my colleagues are actually trying to do me in and are boiling me to death.

Blimey, it gets warm in my house & it's set to 18 and I have open plan downstairs. You. Just be roasting, is there anyone you can discuss this with?

No, the office manager loves it being hot :( She grew up in Turkey and claims England is too cold.

Think of the germs growing in that office!!!

oooh, can I work there please? I love it being warm and have usually found offices finger numbingly cold.

PS can you compromise and get the office manager to turn it down a bit? Call it a green initiative and suggest it to senior management.

Can you turn it down when noones looking. Just to 24 at 1st...

25 degrees? I have mine on 30 and I am in Cyprus! It's bloody cold, wet and windy here at the mo.

If you can't get it turned down, can you get a desk fan? Preferably a noisy one to make your point

claimed I have looked inside the communal microwave. I try very hard to not think of the germs.

snooky 30?

orlea I fan myself with documents and my face looks like this - also I complain loudly and frequently :) My point is made.

I like to be warm but 25 degrees would be pushing it, even for me.
Do you have a health and safety dept you could mention it to?

Oh I love an office thermostat thread. My DH has one in RL twice a year, when the heating is turned off and then when it's turned on again.

Get a fan. A really big one.

I have a preference for cool (think 18). I shared an office with a girl who liked 30. For me, this is intolerable. I'd say 25 is on the top end of tolerable, and 22 is a more reasonable "suits everyone" temperature. This is what we eventually settled on - her in hat and gloves, me in summer clothes.

Can you get it down to 22? Or down one degree this week, another degree the following week?

My dh endures 25 degrees in his office most days. He wears a short sleeve shirt to work even in the winter. He hates it.

there is no H & S maximum temp only a minimum

A fan is not going to help - all it does is move the warm air around. And the motor will also add heat to the room.

You need to moan about it more. Leave the door open, perhaps? Try turning the thermostat done slightly each day?

It's no fun being too hot at work.

Oh God, OP, you poor thing. I couldn't bear that. I've got rosacea & would be flushing from the minute I went in there to the minute I could go home. Doesn't seem right that one manager can dictate that everyone has to work in such an intolerably hot environment.

I'd definitely be taking in a big fan.

I'm sure I read somewhere - probably on here - that putting a big bottle of iced water (brought it from home) in front of a fan makes the air it circulates cooler. Could you also have a mineral water spray to hand?

Do all the rest of your colleagues like it so hot?

I'm with you - anything above 19 is too much. I come in to work 8am and the people in overnight have it on 35.... it's ridiculous, I know it's colder overnight but seriously ...oddly enough the people who work through the night are all Russian so you'd think (i know a sweeping generalization) the could handle lower temperatures a little better!

I found our break room set at 28 once
But I'm known for going "Jesus, is it the Bahamas in here?!" And whacking it down to 19

Most of the others don't seem to mind. One was even wearing a scarf today, so she obviously doesn't think its too hot.

YANBU if you're too warm you're too warm! However My heating is set at 30 degrees but sometimes it doesn't feel very warm, like today I've also had my fleeces jacket on as well as the heating but I can still feel the cold.

I have been in hot offices though and it can be unpleasant.

hope this isn't a publicly-funded office with a fuel bill like that!

turn the thermostat down and superglue it into position

Please can we swap offices? I'm always freezing in mine

It definitely needs a compromise - why should you have to suffer just because others are comfortable? Can you turn it down by one degree a day until others start complaining that they are really too cold?

Alas its a push-button digital thermostat headless!

munch your heating can't actually be getting your house to 30 degrees can it? People wear bikinis on the beach when its 30 outside.

Where is the thermostat?
Does everyone go to lunch at the same time? Any of the same meetings?

You've got to think sneaky here.

Thermostat is by the door, but its an open plan office so everyone can see it. People generally tend to have lunch at their desks, and only the office manager has much in the way of meetings so there's always half a dozen or more hot-lovers watching it.

I don't feel like I can complain too much, my posting there is only temporary because I'm pregnant, and I only work there half the time so I'm struggling against a well established protocol.