Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for August 25, 2022

i was blessed to work in a place where each office has its own thermostat and i didn’t share it with anyone. though I’m retired now, but this is the one thing that might make me thing of going back – to feel the power of control in my hands

I know! I know! Oh, Aunty, call on me!

The answer is “menopausal women.” (Where I worked, the cooling and heating controls were locked out for a while, but a group of such ladies regained control —The female Treasurer had reached that age.)

Not sure I’ve ever heard the expression air con in the UK (especially from a Scouser)… Usually it’s the a/c, or a/c unit…

Luckily, I have my own air conditioner at work. At home, though, it’s a different story… :D

If I have one more conversation about the current temperature of the office I will scream!!

These days, temperature controls in the office aren’t even in the building.A central office controls that stuff and it’s all about what the company pays for bills. Comfort don’t even enter into it.

Wasn’t there a movie by that title. Air Con? Or was it Con Air with Nicholas Cage?

Fibromyalgia gives me hot and cold flashes. I have a small fan and a couple of throws to help.

When our office mgr was experiencing M-symptoms there was no doubt who had charge if the air com!And i paid the bills!

I know of one office manager who solved the problem by installing a dummy thermostat in the open and had the real one in a hidden area.

When you grow up farming, there is no guessing who controls the thermostat. Mother nature does. She decides if you are going to freeze or broil on that tractor or combine, whether you are going to be fencing under a brutal sun or in a pouring rain and whether you are going to have a good crop, fair crop or no crop to harvest.

Never p-iss off mother nature if you are a farmer.

Someone has control issues.

I’ve always been the odd person out when it comes to this. Everyone else is too cold, while I’m too hot, so guess who gets to suffer. One can always add something to get warmer, but that’s not the case when one is too hot. I’d love for someone to develop a pill that would lower a person’s body temperature, because I’d pay just about anything for it.

Every office I’ve ever worked in, the temperature has been freezing, especially in summer, and we women complain and are told the men want it colder and, of course, the women lose.

Many people call summer “women’s winter” at the offices because we have to pile on sweaters.

I kept an electric throw to wrap myself in during the summer.

I found that silk glove liners helped my fingers from freezing so I could use the computer keyboard.

Before that, I, like so many other women, would go to the ladies’ room to run hot water on our frozen fingers.

Government had “dummy theromstats”. You could push the buttons either way, but the temperature would never change. 68 in the winter, 68 in the summer, and off in the spring and fall (even on the freaky hot or cold days) you just got outside air flow.

I know who in charge of our a/c!