Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for July 06, 2010

Fear the wrath of the Menopausal Accountants!

They have PMS and a hand gun I take it.

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This is so funny I’m there but no hot flashes. I’ve been free for 3 years. I work pt in office and full time employers don’t even recongize my age. Too bad over 100+ people appling for one position. The only time I started to sweet when the boss got upset. I’ve learned to lay low. I don’t work in accounting either.

I remember 2 years of an office with the thermostat being under the skylight. If the sun was shining the a/c was on. In summer the sun shining on that thermostat caused the a/c to actively lower the interior temp to about 60 degrees. In winter the a/c kept the temp to 64 degrees. There were many days in January when we would go outside on the landing to warm up. In the summer we had to ease our way outdoors for fear of our bodies going into shock when we stepped into the 80+ degree heat.

yea, hormones !!!

I thought this was what little oscillating fans were invented for so you didn’t HAVE to freeze out all the other humans around you

Humans have solved a number of problems pretty well; but properly heating and cooling a whole building is not one of them.

Once I worked in an office whose temperature went madly up and down. I thought it was a big joke. So I brought in a thermometer, started a graph, and every morning when I came in, I would update the temperature on the graph. I had the graph posted on the wall.

Never make fun of other people’s sacred cows! I got a number of people really mad at me for this - along with other things I perceived as a joke also, that I think it’s better not to mention.

Basically, never assume other people have the same sense of humour as you do.

I remember leaving work and sitting in my truck with the windows up, just warm up after a day in AC,

Cold is lying naked in an operating room waiting for the anesthetic to kick in.

BUSTED!!!!

In the building where I work, there is one vent for the whole office area. It is right over my desk. The hotter it gets outside, the warmer I have to dress, because they have to blow more/colder air. I’m freezing while everyone else is sweating. >:^(

PenguinQueen - How about going from 65 degrees to 100+? I learned to keep a sweater at my desk year round, because there was no way to dress for both extremes. Especially because I’ll faint if I get too hot, but I’m usually colder than most other people.

RinaFarina:

It is actually deceptively difficult to properly heat/cool a building. Air flow is key and heating /cooling tends to be static in a lot of places. Then do something like add or remove a bunch of offices (or cubes) and suddenly someone if being cooked alive in one side of a building and another is freezing to death. Add the human element and you have a big headache for building maintenance….and a reason a lot of those thermostats around the office don’t actually do anything but provide a placebo effect.