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Anyone else have this problem?

The office where I volunteer is always swelteringly hot. By the time I've been inside for about five minutes, I'm dripping wet with sweat whilst I acclimatise from being outside.

Why the office has to be so warm is beyond me!
 
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Malevolence said:
I feel your pain OP. Walking in anywhere that's hot, humid, stuffy and/or overly dusty instantly sets of my condition. I only need to be in such place for a couple of minutes and my skin starts to turn itch, come up in blotchy red patches and, if it's a particularly bad day, ooze.

On the plus side though, I do save loads of money on energy bills over the Winter. :D
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Nix said:
Anyone else have this problem?

The office where I volunteer is always swelteringly hot. By the time been inside for about five minutes, I'm dripping with sweat whilst I acclimatise from being outside.

Why the office has to be so warm is beyond me!
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I used to work in an office that had massive gaps under the windowsills. I sat at a desk by the window, so I used to bear the brunt of the freezing winter winds that would come in through the gaps. The job I did required that I sit at the desk on the phone for extended periods, so I wouldn't be moving very much. These conditions resulted in me getting very cold after an hour or so after arriving at work, and the guy behind me didn't fare much better. We used to sit there in four or more layers of clothing (including gloves at one point) with the heater on full blast, and even then we were cold.

I worked there for three years, enduring this each winter - and it wasn't until the last year I worked there that I discovered just how much of a furnace the rest of the office became, just because of me and this other guy freezing away in our corner. I came in from having visited a customer one afternoon, and I could not believe how hot the office was - and Mark was sitting there with his hat, scarf and gloves on at his desk. If it was just one of us, then I could understand why our bosses didn't do anything about how cold it was on our side of the office - but we were both freezing our ***** off every single day. Apparently they finally replaced the windows this year, and so Mark hasn't had to resort to wearing gloves while working at his desk. It just goes to show how you can have a vast temperature difference in one small office.
 
Nix said:
Anyone else have this problem?

The office where I volunteer is always swelteringly hot. By the time I've been inside for about five minutes, I'm dripping wet with sweat whilst I acclimatise from being outside.

Why the office has to be so warm is beyond me!
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high ratio of women:men ?
 
Every single office I've been in that has a female majority is always too warm. I went to a site the other day where the sole male employee came down for a delivery absolutely sweating. I asked him if it was a bit warm up there and he said they had the thermostat set to a toasty 27 degrees! We start getting antsy if we get above 21! We stopped functioning when the aircon failed and it reached 24!
 
I've moved from an office with standard windows, to a climate controlled office with sealed windows. Choosing which is better is a toss up between:

a) Constant battles with out hardy Scottish admin who enjoyed opening the windows as wide as possible December-March (because it's important to have air circulating, at the cost of blood circulation as it slowly turns to ice).

and:

b) A sweltering morning followed by a freezing afternoon as the business realised switching the heating off at midday can deliver significant savings. On top of that anybody forced into the desk below the vent runs the risk of hypothermia regardless of the time of day.

Good old offices.
 
harry5522 said:
Get them all really warm wool jumpers and open the windows!
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This is what I don't understand. It's got to be about 25C+ in the office yet they're all wearing jumpers!

I wish there was a way to complain about it. It's really uncomfortable.
 
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