HELP! Air Con!

[eggy]

Right,

in our office we have several big air conditioning units on the ceiling. There is not one above my head.

Now, you can change the temperature of the room and the direction of air.

However, the people under the vents moan about the breeze on their neck.

Does anyone have a solution/?! I'm fucking baking hot and humid....ARGHH!!

 

[Chronictank]

isnt there a little bar to change where the fins on the unit are pointing?
so you can just point them away from the person underneath

 

[eggy]

Yes, you can change the angle, but our office "manager", or admin assistant as we like to call her, says that she still gets a draft!!

ARGHHH

 

[Chronictank]

Yes, you can change the angle, but our office "manager", or admin assistant as we like to call her, says that she still gets a draft!!

ARGHHH

put botox in her tea and she wont feel anything
what you could do is turn the fan on reverse and leave the AC off so there isnt actually any air coming out
then see if they complain
Unfortunately if they are spiteful you may get fired or discriminated against so i dont advise it

Some people just like being awkward nowt you can do if its your supervisor :<

On the other hand you could request a working conditions assesment done if you think it is unbearably hot and explain the situation in a letter, they will come down and see what the fuss is about if its above the max office temp they will take steps to remedy the situation

 

[Alan]

We have the same problem here but the sneaky bastard gets in before me and changes the air con from AUTO to HEAT mode - so its constantly HEATing the room until it reaches 22deg which wont happen when the room is already over that, so it just keeps heating and heating and heating.

 

[Darzil]

This room isn't too bad at the moment. No air con, but hardly any windows, either. Annoying from a healthy lighting point of view, but not bad when it's really hot.

The worst I worked in was an IT office with no outside windows, other than some really high skylights, and no air con. There was a door to the outside, but immediately outside it was the air outlet for the Server Room air con, in otherwords the hottest air on site. They had a silly rule, whereby unless you were meeting an external customer, you could wear shorts and T-shirts (otherwise they'd have just had to stop work in the heat, it was that bad). Must have seemed odd to be an external customer, showing people around, when everyone you weren't there specifically to meet was in shorts and T-shirts.

Darzil

 

[Himse]

rarh =D you could always just say stfu, wait till you get outside and you'll feel the benifit of this bloody system you facking kack noobs.

the leet speak would freak them out :<

 

[Hansmoleman]

rarh =D you could always just say stfu, wait till you get outside and you'll feel the benifit of this bloody system you facking kack noobs.

the leet speak would freak them out :<

only if you actually pronounce the letters mid word as well

 

[Raven]

we had the same air con system in our old offices, nothing you can do, though they did put some plastic planks under the air con units (hung by wire or whatever to stop the blast of air, worked ok but then the air con was crap anyway. new office is <3 though

 

[old.Tohtori]

Wait until everyone leaves, move their table and chairs just so they don't get "teh breeze" and turn on your ball cooling paradise!

 

[evzy]

Kill them all and bask in the cool air whilst waiting for the police to arrive*?



*maybe leave 1 or 2 alive for hostage purposes just in case its still warm outside if you don't want to be getting slammed into the back of a sweaty cop car until the sun goes down...

 

[Outlander]

fake heat exhaustion and collapse at your desk. after getting treatment blame it on her and demand better AC

 

[Huntingtons]

Kill them all and bask in the cool air whilst waiting for the police to arrive*?



*maybe leave 1 or 2 alive for hostage purposes just in case its still warm outside if you don't want to be getting slammed into the back of a sweaty cop car until the sun goes down...

it gets hot when you're getting gangraped, so prepare for some prison slaughtering as well

 

[lilmissnaughty]

tell her u r going thro the manopause so ur having hot flushes.
then ask to switch desks so u sit under the vent.
if she says no sue for sex discrimination.

 

[evzy]

it gets hot when you're getting gangraped, so prepare for some prison slaughtering as well

See.... thats where the phrase "kill 2 jailbirds with one stone/knife carefully made out of a razorblade and toothbrush handle" comes from.

 

[kirennia]

Try to aim them all in a circular motion around the room. Should cool down the room whilst not creating a breeze.

Think yourself lucky though, I've just started my silly temp job saving for uni and I'm in a very very badly ventilated room filled with industrial ovens. Constantly moving around heavy equipment and the temperature gauge when I first get in (I have to test it as part of my job) today read 33.5degrees Luckily for me I work the nightshift so it cools down after the first few hours (6pm-6am shifts) to a cool 22ish.

Roll on september!

 

[Tilda]

Try to aim them all in a circular motion around the room. Should cool down the room whilst not creating a breeze.

Think yourself lucky though, I've just started my silly temp job saving for uni and I'm in a very very badly ventilated room filled with industrial ovens. Constantly moving around heavy equipment and the temperature gauge when I first get in (I have to test it as part of my job) today read 33.5degrees Luckily for me I work the nightshift so it cools down after the first few hours (6pm-6am shifts) to a cool 22ish.

Roll on september!

which uni?!

 

[kirennia]

Plymouth mate, studying 'Computing' ...such a basic title

Was cooler in work today, for some reason it dropped to 29.5 when I went in

 

[Sparx]

Right,

in our office we have several big air conditioning units on the ceiling. There is not one above my head.

Now, you can change the temperature of the room and the direction of air.

However, the people under the vents moan about the breeze on their neck.

Does anyone have a solution/?! I'm fucking baking hot and humid....ARGHH!!

No win situation i'm afraid the coldies will always win over the hotties, i mean not being funny if your cold put on a bleeding coat what are we supposed to do? Take off our trousers and sit and fan ourselves?

This is a problem every year in our office and i always lose bloody wankers who are cold in the summer

 

[Amildin]

No win situation i'm afraid the coldies will always win over the hotties, i mean not being funny if your cold put on a bleeding coat what are we supposed to do? Take off our trousers and sit and fan ourselves?

Yes!

 

[old.Tohtori]

No win situation i'm afraid the coldies will always win over the hotties, i mean not being funny if your cold put on a bleeding coat what are we supposed to do? Take off our trousers and sit and fan ourselves?

This is a problem every year in our office and i always lose bloody wankers who are cold in the summer

It's because you decide to lose *goes Dr Philling*

But seriously, people have this f*cked up way of thinking that if they feel cold, they might catch a cold. This is why companies take the side of the possible sick person, so they don't get sick and cost the company money.

You should try and come up with a reason to NEED air con or you'd cost the company money. Heat exhaustion was mentioned, etc. Think through the money...think through the money!

 

[Steffan-]

Tohtori, you sound like that crazy dude from Patch Adam "don't focus on the problem, look beyond it" xD

 

[Sparx]

could always point out that the average human can think and react faster at a lower temp so being too hot means that you will lose concentration thus lose productivity

 

[Himse]

ejaculate on your boss' face.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Tohtori, you sound like that crazy dude from Patch Adam "don't focus on the problem, look beyond it" xD

Me? Crazy? Bah...humbug

 

[Fana]

Mention that you admire the main character in Falling Down

 

[Lamp]

1. Talk to the building / property services dept. in your company.

2. Move desk till you get the right balance.

3. Buy a small desk fan

4. Drink plenty of water

5. Wear lightweight unrestrictive clothing

Other than that, put up with it like everyone else, stop moaning, and get on and do the job they're paying you to do. If you don't like it, get another job with air con.

 

[Mall]

ejaculate on your boss' face.

He did that at the last office xmas party, this is why she won't let him turn on the AC

Like someone already mentioned, Rod start taking your clothes off and complain you're too hot or waft your armpits at them until they can't take the smell anymore