To think all adults should understand how a thermostat works, office heating / ac related

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Its driving me mad. Office cold in the morning, heating turned up to 24. Everyone gets too hot, unit switched to ac and temp down to 16, everyone gets too old. Repeat to infinity.

Its really not difficult, sometimes I feel like the only one with a brain .

It's possible that you are!

Its not even funny the temp changes make me unwell. Now the ac is on, everyone is in jackets and I've got a hot water bottle on my lap. Can't concentrate.

Would love some fresh air.

You have a hot water bottle on your lap in the office?! In September?

Well why don't you take charge of the thermostat / ac then. Or explain how they should be using it.

More seriously, why not send around a general email with suggested temps for the A/C when it is generally recognised as too hot/cold in the office?

My DM is the same in the car. She claims it heats up faster if you put it on 28 degrees and cools down quicker if you put it on 16 degrees. My work colleague who drives us both to meetings has a car that allows the aircon to be set to 13 deg. He always goes straight for the 13 deg and I feel like I need a scarf and gloves in the summer! YANBU

Yes I do, this time of year is the coldest in the office as some still insist on ac. It'll be turned off and heating put back on soon hopefukly

I'm a freelancer in the room. Trying not to step on anyone's toes and hopefully get my contact renewed. So not making any waves.

Sounds as if your colleagues subscribe to

(and Pippin's mum).

I have no idea how to work ac. I can work my thermostat which is a 1970's back boiler heating system but. Why must every adult know? Put a coat on

So everyone should just go through life like Jeremy?

I'll have to take a coat and swimwear and be switching all day

We have air con in sept and hot water bottles . It's miserable. I'd ban it if I was in charge, no need for air con in sit down offices in the uk bar one or two days a year..

We ended up making it a disciplinary offence to touch the temperature control in our office. It was set at whatever the temp was (can't remember now) and if you were cold you put a top on, if you were warm you took it off.....

My DH is an engineer and didn't understand this until I explained it. I despair.

Please tell me he's only a Lego engineer?!? Not nuclear or aricraft or something mission critical

The place where I used to work tried sending out (futile) emails saying that turning the heat up high won't make it heat up any faster, but in the end they relocated the thermostat to a height that needed a stepladder to reach it. That worked.

Our place is totally sealed - no windows open - so we definitely need air conditioning. We just don't need it to be on cold mode all the time as it seems to be!

Well I work on a farm or in a garage where the shutters are always open in scotland. There is no heating or ac. It's such a non issue. People 'go through life' with much bigger struggles then airconditioning

coat and swimwear
Really? All a bit dramatic.

I know. If I said to the boys in the garage to shut the shutters when it's raining (every flipping day) the wet themselves. They are nice enough to give me a plug in blow heater though when it's snowing

Same here. Walk in, set to 27c. Because it will "warm up quicker"
Some shifts have it at a warm setting, some have it so a polar bear would be begging for heat

I used to laugh at the guys that'd turn up in shorts & T-shirt for a night shift in the summer.

It's exactly the same temperature indoors as it is in the winter - they'd be shivering by 03:00.....

My bosses answer to feeling the cold.... WORK HARDER!!!

That must be infuriating, OP. And all the more infuriating because you can't do anything about it for fear of rocking the boat.

On a similar note, why is the climate control in every fucking hotel room I ever go to set to 24 fucking degrees? Who sleeps in a 24 degree room if they have a choice?

(That sounds like I go to hotels a lot: it's more than once a year for one night at a time rather than actually glamorously spending half my life in hotels ... but every single fucking time it's a cunting sauna!)