The PTB must think we've suddenly relocated from Nebraska to Arizona

**lynnzop**[$] · #1 12-01-2005, 02:28 PM

BECAUSE THE A/C IS RUNNING AND IT'S 9 DEGREES OUTSIDE.

We hung up garland with little candy canes from the ceiling and it hangs below the air vents. They are shaking back and forth.

My nose is cold!!!!!!

**mjfrombuffalo**[$] · #2 12-01-2005, 02:30 PM

Take down the candy canes and put up those plastic icicles instead...

**lynnzop**[$] · #3 12-01-2005, 02:33 PM

I'm going to be typing wiht my mittens on pretty soon.

**taurusmoon** · #4 12-01-2005, 03:17 PM

Oh, you poor thing.

I'm dying because they've got the heat set too high in here.

Maybe if we focus all our mental energies on it, we can influence the air currents to switch places.

**lynnzop**[$] · #5 12-01-2005, 04:20 PM

I'm just counting down the minutes until I can get the hell out of here.

I turned my heater off, thinking it was causing an imbalance. I'm wearing jeans, boots, a t-shirt, a sweater and have a crocheted afgan around my shoulders (I look like a Granny, FCOL) and the paper taped up on my overhead bookshelf is fluttering in the stinking breeze.

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRR I'ms ending coled thoughts your way, Sara.

**taurusmoon** · #6 12-01-2005, 04:23 PM

And, I'm blowing hot air your way. Hey, I'm in marketing. That should be easy for me.

**lynnzop**[$] · #7 12-01-2005, 08:27 PM

I'm home and there's HEAT. Ahhhhhhhhhhh, it's wonderful to feel my toes again.

phoenixx · #8 12-01-2005, 09:30 PM

Are you a cube or an office? If an office, just close your vent. If a cube, ask your co-workers if ok, then just close your vent.

**lynnzop**[$] · #9 12-01-2005, 11:52 PM

I'm in a cube. In a corner. There are vents at right angles above both sides of my cube. And all the way down the aisle. And I don't think they "close".

If it's that damn cold tomorrow, I'm going to have our Admin call maintenance. It was RIDICULOUS today watching those candy canes shiver.

*emeleel* · #10 12-02-2005, 12:00 AM

Large sheet magnets. Like the kind that they make the cheap freebie fridge magnets from? You can get them in sheets. Plop it over the vent. Case (and vent) closed.

**lynnzop**[$] · #11 12-02-2005, 12:11 AM

Ooh, then I'd have the evil Facilities people come around and yell at me. (No kidding, they did one year when we put up sheets of black plastic for a haunted house. Something about sprinkler systems being blocked or something.

)

I still think I should just bring in one of those portable fireplaces and start up a campfire.

phoenixx · #12 12-02-2005, 12:57 AM

Paint a realistic air vent onto the sheet magnet. Make it look open. Voila.

eris esoteric · #13 12-02-2005, 08:21 AM

Get Sara to photoshop one for you.

**mtomm**[$] · #14 12-02-2005, 11:31 AM

The have the thermostats set wrong. The air conditioning is coming on because it thinks it is too warm. They need to raise the AC temp to something like 74 and then that won't happen.

You need to cozy up to a maintenance guy that knows how to run the thing and convince him he wants to keep you happy.

**lynnzop**[$] · #15 12-06-2005, 09:42 AM

ACK!!!!!!!<----the color of my finger and lips right now.

I got in at 6:45 a.m. It's SEVEN BELOW OUTSIDE. Building was warm enough, no cold air blowing down from the vents.

7:30 a.m. the A/C kicks in. IT'S SEVEN BELOW OUTSIDE!!!!!!

**mtomm**[$] · #16 12-06-2005, 10:28 AM

You really need to let the maintenance people know! This is such an easy fix.

cristina1 · #17 12-06-2005, 11:15 AM

They need to switch the thermostat over to the "heat" setting!

**taurusmoon** · #18 12-06-2005, 12:00 PM

Do you want some of my heat?

I'm ready to pass out.

eris esoteric · #19 12-06-2005, 12:20 PM

Quote:

lynnzop said

ACK!!!!!!!<----the color of my finger and lips right now.

Quote:

taurusmoon said

Do you want some of my heat?

I'm ready to pass out.

Hmm. Perhaps Human Resources departments really are run by cats these days, cats who specifically arrange the environment for each worker to make them all as uncomfortable as possible.