Work and the temperatures this week

Minimum room temp should be 18.5C or 19C for workable temp. Anything below that and you're pandering to Greta Thunberg. If you're 23C or over, then you have a health condition.

I'm in the 19.5C camp. It's costing me £8 per day in gas to warm up my 1-bed flat atm, but I'm not budging. I'm not going to be dictated by press or Greta. Stand up to it! The same goes in the Summer time. I will whack the air-con on when outside hits 24C.
 
I love my walk to and from work down the canal. It is the highlight of my day. Monday was spectacular because it had been so cold overnight. All moisture everywhere had been forced to grow into ice crystals. The trees were other-worldly and magical with weird, intricate, sculpture-like ice jackets. It was -6c that morning and has been -4c the rest of the week. I wear a t-shirt, lambswool jumper, and a kagoul, with hat and gloves. By the time I hit town, the gloves and hat are usually off, mainly because of the pace I rock heating me up. It isn't cold in the office, though.
 
Not too sound mean...

But I work outside and predominantly up mountains/ hill tops...

My sympathy for you is lacking after Tuesdays -10 recording.... Took me nearly a hour long bath before I felt warm
 
Good insulated boots and a pair of these will solve the OP’s icy hill problem:

yaktrax.com

Walk Traction Device

Walk traction cleats are lightweight and easy to secure around any winter boot or shoe. From walking to work, school, or even just the mailbox, these cleats help reduce the risk of falls when walking on snow and ice.
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Pawnless Endgame said:
Minimum room temp should be 18.5C or 19C for workable temp. Anything below that and you're pandering to Greta Thunberg. If you're 23C or over, then you have a health condition.

I'm in the 19.5C camp. It's costing me £8 per day in gas to warm up my 1-bed flat atm, but I'm not budging. I'm not going to be dictated by press or Greta. Stand up to it! The same goes in the Summer time. I will whack the air-con on when outside hits 24C.
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19.5 is shorts & t shirt temperatures, sod working in that for any length of time!
 
Terminal_Boy said:
Good insulated boots and a pair of these will solve the OP’s icy hill problem:

yaktrax.com

Walk Traction Device

Walk traction cleats are lightweight and easy to secure around any winter boot or shoe. From walking to work, school, or even just the mailbox, these cleats help reduce the risk of falls when walking on snow and ice.
yaktrax.com yaktrax.com
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Yaktrax are awesome. Haven't used mine this week but they've been in my bag in case.
 
Yeah I got a pair highly recommended.

Not cheap though.

There's probably solutions on Amazon and eBay for a fiver...
 
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minus 1 in the distillery yesterday i have Columbia heat pants with thermals under, multiple lairs and works jumper fleece and padded hi vis, fingerless gloves, we have a small domestic heater but its only good to defrost your fingers, obviously the offices are like the tropics but that's how it works in a lot of places
 
Holy crap you would think some of you worked in Antarctica and have to traverse mountains to get to and from work.

I walk my son to school as many do around here. Outside is a sheet of ice after the snow. So I see a bunch of 4 year old plus kids apparently capable of coping with the cold better than some of you lot.
 
1664kronenbourg said:
This week I've had to walk to work, work in a cold shop then walk one in 0c or oc- temperatures (5- tonight and that was after working in a cold shop al afternoon). Not everybody can drive/catch a bus to work and some of us have to walk to work, work ina cold shop and walk home in the zero/zero minus degrees. Anybody know what the lgal maximum temperature is before we can be sent home (of course certain jobs require people to work in the temperatures we've been having this week don't they?).
But on the plus side, at least my drinks're still cold as I'm walking home.
Anybody else on here had to walk to/from work in the cold this week?
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Did you have to walk to work and work in a cold shop?
 
1664kronenbourg said:
This week I've had to walk to work, work in a cold shop then walk one in 0c or oc- temperatures (5- tonight and that was after working in a cold shop al afternoon). Not everybody can drive/catch a bus to work and some of us have to walk to work, work ina cold shop and walk home in the zero/zero minus degrees. Anybody know what the lgal maximum temperature is before we can be sent home (of course certain jobs require people to work in the temperatures we've been having this week don't they?).
But on the plus side, at least my drinks're still cold as I'm walking home.
Anybody else on here had to walk to/from work in the cold this week?
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The legal temperature is man up
 
Efour said:
Yeah I got a pair highly recommended.

Not cheap though.

There's probably solutions on Amazon and eBay for a fiver...
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€25 is cheaper than hospital as I don’t bounce as well as I used to.

I’ve tried the cheaper ones that just have the metal studs in Yellow plastic holders and they don’t grip as well when there’s snow over ice. They also rip up flooring a treat when you forget you’re wearing them.
 
moon man said:
minus 1 in the distillery yesterday i have Columbia heat pants with thermals under, multiple lairs and works jumper fleece and padded hi vis, fingerless gloves, we have a small domestic heater but its only good to defrost your fingers, obviously the offices are like the tropics but that's how it works in a lot of places
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I bet there’s a woman in charge of the office thermostat.
 
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