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I have a work snuggie! Not even kidding, the AC is STILL on in my office. Maintenance can't figure out whats going on but there is still cold air blowing. Its RIDIC!
At my last job, the owner would cut off the gas during the summer. So last winter, when the first cold front came through, the gas wasn't turned on. It was like 40 degrees in the office!! It was horrible, so I just had several layers of clothes on and kept heating mugs of water to hold on to lol. Thinking back, I should have just went home!
Oh my gosh I freeze at work too! But I haven't found a way to stay warm yet.
I freeze at work too ... Our Salon is part of a shopping complex and we are right inside of a set of double automatic doors and when the doors open it is like the wind goes right into the salon so it is always really breezy. The breeze makes it feel like the air conditioning is on.There is nothing we can do our heating system is controled by the main office. Because I cut hair it is not practical for me to wear a outer sweater or a coat bc the hair would be all over it. I cant wear gloves I do wear long sleeves but i always have to push them up out of the way and i layer it over a tanktop and I wear long socks to help keep my legs warm... I have the last few days since the temperatures here have been in the high 20s I have been leaving my scarf on and just tucking it down in my apron.
It is definately not unusual for us to have our hooded dryers running to help put out some heat and to see us warming ourselves with the blowdryers when the shop isnt busy lol.
Does America have health and safety laws regarding the workplace? We have laws regarding temperature and lighting etc.
I wish we could have mini space heaters but they are too much of a hazard. My sister works for a small music company in LA and they let her have a space heater. No fair! lol
@kericita Found it at Xoxide.com (found them through a google search) product is called Modteck USB Warming Gloves. I will say that they do get a little too hot so you have to unplug every once in a while, but hey it gets the job done!
@FutureMrs.Harless Oh that would be bad! I consider myself lucky now!
They just freaking turned off the air conditioning yesterday... so they say... I don't believe them it's like 3degrees warmer in here. drinking lots of tea and moving around is helping. I love the usb powered gloves tho!
I work in a super old cinder block building. I don't think they understood insulation when they built this thing. It's always ridiculously cold. I've been wearing glove when I type, though, so that helps.
Yesterday I was wearing my winter jacket inside my office because it was so cold!
I got one from Lowe's last year for $200. It's small and compact but it is NOT a space heater. It's pretty freakin' awesome. I couldn't find it on the Lowe's website but maybe you could use something similiar. It's not dangerous at all--it's like plugging in a fan at your desk.
It is really cold at my office too. Last winter was the worst though. They were renovating a part of my floor, and when they undid all the ductwork they forgot to hook it back up. The heater was blowing cold outside air into our work area for more than a month before someone figured out what was going on and fixed it. Ridiculous!
I freeze at home - work is really nice and warm. At home, it's 40 degrees IN the house.
We can't cook, our soaps and shampoos freeze. It's a nightmare. We can only afford/manage to heat the bedroom, so we just stay in there.
@ejs4y8 I've seen those before and very true it is NOT a space heater!
What about infra-red heaters? they are a tad expensive, (like $300+) but they heat the items AROUND them with infra-red, so that the objects and surfaces are warmer thusly raising the overall ambient temperature. But I don't think that they are technically a space heater.. could be wrong though.
I have a $20 fan heater under my desk, It's not ceramic so the building allows it. It also has an emergency shut off switch if it tips over. Works like a charm :) That and I drink lots of tea!
Last month, our office was pretty horrible. They are doing construction and basically ripped the front off the building so the cold air from outside wafted down our hallway. At the same time, the heat pump broke and our entire wing was without heat. Now, the heat is back in our rooms but the hall is still chilly. We couldn't have heaters in our room so basically we wore our warmest clothes possible!
we all have mini space heaters in our offices to combat the cold. i don't really think there's any other way for us to stay warm. everyone keeps sweaters also in the closet or by their desk to wear.
I have an electic blanket at my desk. Yep. It's totally a fire hazard and completely illegal in this office, but I just keep it in my desk drawer. I only put it up when the fire marshall comes around to inspect things. It is WAY too cold in here. They also provided these foot panel things but they don't put out nearly enough heat and your feet have to be touching the darn thing to feel anything.
omg. I think it's seriously like 30 degrees in here right now.I work at a hospital on the ground floor, in radiology, so they keep it a little cooler down here anyway due to radiology films, and the machines, but there is a thermostat right outside my door, however it also controls the temperature of a few of the radiologists offices as well. So as soon as I turn it up to a normal temp, i'm talking like 65 degrees! they turn it right back down to like 55!! who can stand that! my freakin nose is cold!
My office is freezing in both the winter AND the summer. Something with the HVAC system is messed up and it is only our section of the building that has unreasonable temperatures. I'm wrapped in a fleece blanket as I type this! Unfortuantely, they won't let us have anything electric to keep warm (no space heaters, Amish fireplace things, electric blankets, etc) so we're stuck with just plain old blankets. Every single person in my group has one.
It's cold in my office, but i'm a scientist working in a biological level 2 lab (nasty human pathogens). THey have to recycle our air like 15 times an hour, so that means that it is a complicated filtration/heating/cooling process to get rid of humidity from the air exchange. So, it's much cooler than I wish it was. But, it's also necessary so that we don't infect anyone ;-)
I am sooooooo cold right now at work too! My work is an old house so it has like no insulation and my boss is on a cruise and I have no idea how to turn the heater on. I tried yeterday and could not figure it out at all.
ME! we just moved into a new building that our company bought, they were too cheap to put ceilings in so it open ceilings (industrial style) so its impossible to heat this place. i wear long sleeve shirts, jackets, fingless gloves so i can type and i usually wrap a blanket around my legs. Im in IT so luckily i can get away with jeans and hoodies but still! freezing!
@ejs4y8: It's no fun, totally illegal, and the only way to make ends meet these days. Places that have proper fireplaces or oil heat are 500 dollars more a month JUST in rent (not at all including what the oil/wood/electric would cost) than what we pay now and we just can't do this.
I gotta move back to the south. :<
At work, I sometimes wear the mittens that flip over into gloves (with no fingertips) so I can still type. :)
I wear my big winter coat over my lap and try to keep my fingers moving....the guy next to me has been wearing long underwear under his pants for two weeks now, so I feel tough!
@tobin: We do have occupational health & safety laws but last I knew there was nothing specific regarding the temperature of workspaces. If it were cold enough to cause frostbite or hot enough to cause heat stroke or something similar - that would apply.
I feel for everyone though! My office used to be in the basement of a building and it was freezing down there! My fingers and nose would get so cold! I would have to take frequent breaks upstairs to warm up. I had the same problem at another job too just because I worked with a bunch of guys were were unnaturally warm most of the time. They would jack up the air conditioning beyond reason!
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Does anybody else freeze at work? I work on the top floor of the building (heat is suppose to rise! grrr) but I don't dare not wear long sleeves or not have my fleece blanket wrapped around me. My hands freeze too! I was so desparate to get my hands warm that I found some USB powered gloves with warmers in them! The fingers are cut at the knuckles so I can still type.
Has anyone else gotten creative to stay warm?