To think I should be warm in my office

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AIBU to think I should be able to wear a short sleeved top in the office and expect to be warm?

My boss has a PA way of saying the office is warm and scoffs at the fact I wear short sleeved tops to work.

I sit beside a window and although I have a radiator behind me, I am often cold. If I were to wear a top and cardigan/jumper I get too hot and sweaty

YABU to expect to wear short sleeved tops at this time of year. Put on a thermal vest under a thin top with long sleeves.

Sorry but yabu

Not at all. Short sleeves are not clothes for autumn! Put long sleeves on. Much more effective than putting on the heating anyway.

I'm working at home so currently wearing a wooly jumper and insulating jacket (I like a cold house)

Put a cardie/jumper on. What a waste of energy you're expecting to enable you to wear summer clothes in autumn.

:o This made me laugh - my 7 year old has similar problems - too cold in just a T shirt, too hot if he puts his jumper on, Mummy won't light the log fire which is what he is angling for... what to do?... tis a hard life...

I'm the same. But I hate long sleeves, always roll them up.

I hate long sleeves, but would never expect everyone to suffer because of my quirks.

I tend to be freezing in offices, wearing a thick jumper and sometimes even a coat and fingerless gloves. It would have to be over 24 degrees for me to wear short sleeves. Short sleeves are high summer garb.

Totally unreasonable.

I get the rage when heating is up too high and the people who don't want it turned down, don't put a jumper on.

I was queuing in the bank the other day, obviously wearing a coat and the heating was on full. Everyone in the queue was fit to drop, but the staff were all sat wearing short sleeves

Shall I be the first to make sanctimonious comments about #firstworldproblems and ISIS beheading babies?

Thanks all - just wanted to prove to my colleague that she is BU.....she was having a moan about our boss and that I agreed with her.

hands colleague a blanket

YABU, wear long sleeves!

There has to be a compromise somewhere.

Oh god my colleague is like you - drives me nuts! Its easy for you to put a cardy on. If the heating was turned up, your boss would be too hot - what do you suggest she does? Walk around in her smalls?

Your colleague needs to come and work where I do OP. It's always warm verging on hot no matter what time of the year.

bad case of 'stuff you, planet' here. Put some clothes on, it is October. Scoffing deserved.

If you are cold then wear warmer clothes. Why should an office be heated up so you can wear short sleeved tops. I'm a person that has always felt the cold but YABU.

I was raised in a house where if you were cold, you put on a jumper and, on sub-zero days, got into bed in the middle of the day. The heating went on for one hour with the timer and no more.

I'm now treating my DP the same, god help him if I come home and the place is warm

In my defence, we have electric heaters that cost the earth to run!

You have a legal right to a minimum temperature of 16 degrees Celsius in an office environment, 13 degrees if you are doing heavy manual work.

You do not have a right to in short sleeved stuff all year round. Put a vest on under your short sleeved thing if you can't bear longer sleeves!

YABU

Its a total waste of energy and money to put the heating on if your not appropriately dressed.

Ridiculous.

Oh, a reverse.

I have cheap all cotton cardigans from places like Primark, Matalan and Sainsburys. Wear one of those rather than a sweaty heavy acrylic one?