Air conditioning is sexist
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This boils my blood.
Schools for example.
Men have to has a suit on. Woman get away with anything unless in senior leadership.
It's sexist, but if they were told to dress smarter I bet a million quid they would screen the equality card
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We need to stop indulging these idiots and call them out.....
It's the only way to stop this nonsense.
It's the only way to stop this nonsense.
I know right. If Sky News was at all credible, then they would have stopped her right in her tracks.
Imagine if the newsreader was like "What a minute did you just say the AC gave you a virus?" that would be amazing.
Fact is any decent HVAC system will filtering out crap in the air.
Now this is a topic I can sink my teeth in to.
You know when you're hot / cold / too dark / too bright / too whatever and you call the facilities guys to come and change your stuff? That guy is me (well, used to be, now I manage a team of 8). I've been doing this for 10 years and I can tell you it's always the women who complain. Yes you get the odd guy complaining but those are usually serial complainers who we hear from multiple times a week.
For some context, my current building is a £650m office block with about 2000 people in it in the square mile. Our systems are 17 years old but extremely well maintained and everything works which is very rare, in fact I'd say that 90% of the buildings I've worked in have been maintained on a shoestring and the stuff behind the scenes is all falling to bits and failing. In our building we have one of the biggest law firms in the world, an investment bank which is also an absolute titan, a $100k a year college, a forex company, an engineering council and a business rates company. The point I'm making is that the bulk of our clients are all well educated, successful high flyers, unwashed scum™.
We get called about 3-4 times a day for hots / colds and I'd say that 90% of them are ladies. Most of the time we can use a placebo and say we've made some adjustments and they're happy (hey don't judge me, this whole industry works like that) but sometimes we get the real moaners. We'll get calls to people who are sitting in a short sleeve top saying they're too cold and people sitting next to them are dressed like eskimos. We can't say anything obviously but the amount of times I want to give them a slap and tell them to put something on and stop being such inconsiderate pricks is unreal. These people live in their own little bubbles and as long as they're comfy, screw everyone else.
The TL;Dr is that some people are morons who will moan regardless of what you do and won't for one second think to themselves "hang on, can I solve this myself?".
We had a girl in our office a while back who always used to say she was too hot, and always had the skinniest little tops on. She was an 11/10 and our apprentice always dashed up to see her as soon as the job came in because her nips were like bullets all day long. It was great.
You know when you're hot / cold / too dark / too bright / too whatever and you call the facilities guys to come and change your stuff? That guy is me (well, used to be, now I manage a team of 8). I've been doing this for 10 years and I can tell you it's always the women who complain. Yes you get the odd guy complaining but those are usually serial complainers who we hear from multiple times a week.
For some context, my current building is a £650m office block with about 2000 people in it in the square mile. Our systems are 17 years old but extremely well maintained and everything works which is very rare, in fact I'd say that 90% of the buildings I've worked in have been maintained on a shoestring and the stuff behind the scenes is all falling to bits and failing. In our building we have one of the biggest law firms in the world, an investment bank which is also an absolute titan, a $100k a year college, a forex company, an engineering council and a business rates company. The point I'm making is that the bulk of our clients are all well educated, successful high flyers, unwashed scum™.
We get called about 3-4 times a day for hots / colds and I'd say that 90% of them are ladies. Most of the time we can use a placebo and say we've made some adjustments and they're happy (hey don't judge me, this whole industry works like that) but sometimes we get the real moaners. We'll get calls to people who are sitting in a short sleeve top saying they're too cold and people sitting next to them are dressed like eskimos. We can't say anything obviously but the amount of times I want to give them a slap and tell them to put something on and stop being such inconsiderate pricks is unreal. These people live in their own little bubbles and as long as they're comfy, screw everyone else.
The TL;Dr is that some people are morons who will moan regardless of what you do and won't for one second think to themselves "hang on, can I solve this myself?".
We had a girl in our office a while back who always used to say she was too hot, and always had the skinniest little tops on. She was an 11/10 and our apprentice always dashed up to see her as soon as the job came in because her nips were like bullets all day long. It was great.
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Perhaps it's time to stop pandering to these cretins and time to start calling them out on their stupidity.
Give over. Men can take their jacket off.
Mind you, I agree with the argument that women can put one on if needs be...
Smart trousers and a shirt with a tie are still way too much in 28+c rooms...
When a woman can flounder about in a thin dress and flat open shoes... Hmmmm
Linen trousers and a short sleeved shirt. No tie. Job done.
And I doubt many rooms are at 28C, unless it’s the height of summer.
I was refering to summer term.
All ICT rooms are that temperature due to 30+ kids, 30+ Pcs and lack of airflow in old buildings.
Can't go tieless. And lining trousers? Wtf are those?
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100% this.
However because they know I'm warm blooded and I cycle all year round in shorts, they let me wear tailored shorts last summer for the first time before I collapsed.
It's a school. Rules are to be followed. Teachers are students role models.
Where I work, people complain that it's "freezing" if it's below ~26C. We have had the aircon set as high as 30C before now. 28C is not out of the question or even all that unusual. At 28C, being stark naked wouldn't be enough to be comfortable. It would still be too hot.
We're not talking about people wanting 23C instead of 21C. They are not being anywhere near that reasonable. We've had paramedics out to unwell customers who have said that the place is too hot. People have fainted. The people who complain that 25C is "freezing" continue to do so. They also claim to believe that temperatures under ~26C are what cause diseases.
well given it is [current year] you can use the SJW cards against them... send an e-mail to whatever the school equivalent of HR is and state that you identify as non-binary/gender fluid... you'll still want the kids to refer to you as "Sir" or "Mr" but the female side of you would like to adhere to the female standards of dress - such as say trousers and a smart-ish t-shirt type top... of course as you're non-binary you're not confined to actually wearing women clothes per say but just adhering to their vague dress code... the rule that men need to wear suits doesn't apply to you as you're no longer strictly male (though you'll use male pronouns)
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Why do you keep typing this in loads of your posts? Isn't it easier to just type 2018?
It boils down to rigid thinking. Ideas such as "you must wear a tie at all times" and "shorts can never be smart" cause men to have to wear long trousers, shirt+tie (and sometimes jacket) in all conditions. Rigid thinking.
Remember the British (and German) Africa corps wore shorts, short/long socks and short-sleeved shirts... and they looked (to my mind) perfectly smart and ... uniform. Why can't shorts be smart if skirts can be smart? They're the same bloomin' thing, near enough.
why doesnt this woman complain about something that affects most people.
like in the winter when everyone is dressed for the weather, you enter a shop and its boiling, your sweating to death in a few minutes and don't have the luxury of taking layers off.
why is it set up to make the staff comfortable at the expense of the customers
like in the winter when everyone is dressed for the weather, you enter a shop and its boiling, your sweating to death in a few minutes and don't have the luxury of taking layers off.
why is it set up to make the staff comfortable at the expense of the customers