I am fucking freezing!

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That’s probably the reason. A space heater is usually 1500 watts and can real easily overload a circuit. (as I’ve found out on several occasions) I work in an office with a whole bunch of male engineers with * huge* dunlaps and they keep it frigid in here so I have to have one. The blanket doesn’t work for me because my hands get so cold I’m miserable.

I will add that I took Climate Control System Design in school and it’s a complicated subject. In designing a sustem you have to take into account humidity, number of air changes required per hour, loaction and size of the windows, proposed activity (for example, the average male doing seated light office work puts out 450 Btu/h and 550 btu/h doing light walking and standing), number of occupents, dry bulb and wet bulb temps, lighting cooling load, equipment cooling load, heat gain to ducts, insulation factors for all the various materials the walls and roof are constructed of, etc. (fascinating to y’all, I’m sure :slight_smile: ) In an office building with many windows, the offices along the windows should be cooled by a different unit than the interior. Frequently, cooling systems are poorly designed and don’t keep the temperature as regular as they ought…

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Just curious, but is there a lot of computer equipment in the offices where you work?

Because if there is, and they’re running all day long, this has a serious impact on what has to be done for climate controlling. Computers allowed to sit in a room with too high an ambient air temperature tend to have processors (and video cards, and other electronic parts) that will overheat and burn out, thus the rooms are usually kept somewhere around 18° C just to insure that their cooling fans are sucking in enough cold are and exhausting enough warm air to keep their internals working properly.

Those rooms where I work in which there are large numbers of computers, or in which any server or switch resides, the temperature is kept no higher than 20° C all year round, which means a lot of people are ‘freezing’. I generally tell everyone when they start working here to dress warmly inside the building, because the temperatures here are set for the comfort of the computers, not the people. People can put on a jacket. A computer that over heats and kills its processor has to be replaced, and that costs the company money.

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Derleth, I forgot to mention that I live in a Celcius country and I am young enough, that I have no idea what -47 C is in F.

If anyone can tell me, it would be nice, but I’m pretty sure that -50 F is colder than -50 C.

Here’s looking forward to spring!!

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-50 C is colder (I think) than -50 F. After all, -40 is the nifty temperature at which degrees celcius and degrees farenheit are the same and celcius degrees are larger than farenheit degrees.

This discussion also reminds me of attending my college rooommate’s wedding. The ladies, clad in long dresses with short sleeves were comfortable in the church and frozen in the “gathering room”(Where they put us at the reception until it was time for us to be announced). The men in tuxes were hot at the church and breathed loud sighs of relief upon entering the “gathering room”. The room where the reception was held was significantly warmer than the “gathering room” which made us ladies happy and the men solved their problem by removing their jackets during the reception.

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47C is fucking hot, is what it is. 116.6F, according to an online converter.

Whereas -50 C equals -58 F. I think the farther down you go, the closer the scales get.

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I know a space heater uses too much power, but perhaps you could use a simple heating pad (the kind you’d use if your back went out)? Just pop that behind or under you in your chair maybe?

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Hmm there is one standard PC type computer per office and there are 3 offices running on the one fuse.

Perhaps the air temp is set for the comfort of computers but I’m not sure my boss would understand that seeing as I’m having trouble explaining to him why he can not stick magnets on his PC.

Him “But it is a handy calendar magnet and I need it right in front of me”
Me “You rememer last time you wiped stuff off your hard drive and the tech explained to you about magnets and computers”

Gah! we seem to be doing the magnet talk on a two monthly basis now.

Would the guy who got excited about my computer knowledge when I said “now you use the scroll bar to move down the page” really know anything about them overheating? scroll bar is a high tech and little known computer term in my industry!

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My boss is kind of like that too, which is why we tell him exactly what to say when he explains anything that has even the slightest bit to do with the computers.

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Oh, for the love of God… (and being an atheist, I don’t say that lightly).

If there are one or more parties fighting about room temperature, the lowest temperature wins. The other parties involved can add clothing to suit.

Next?

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You know, there are points at which even 4 layers doesn’t help when you’re sitting there for five hours. Next up on our lesson for today: “COM-PRO-MISE”!

My office is always drastically over-airconditioned in the summer. I hate it.

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The crossover point is -40. After that, the scales begin to diverge.

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I think I win the cold office contest.

As mentioned elsewhere, I work in a warehouse. In Montreal, Canada. Where we have been averaging temperatures of minus 30 degrees for the last three weeks. (“Celsius, or Farenheit?” “First one, then the other.”) My desk is directly between two sets of shipping doors, which, this being a warehouse, are open for hours on end.

Calice, il fait frait! :mad:

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I probably win the most over-heated workplace.

Last year, I was happily working in a restaurant. A fast food restaurant that makes Submarines. Half the restaurant has floor to ceiling windows. That’s the entire front of the restaurant and one of its sides. In the winter, the sun just happens to rise directly across from them, bathing the place in a beautiful warm light.

We also have an oven we use to bake bread. When clients come up to the counter, it’s right in our backs.

As you can imagine, it’s always warm in there. Fortunately, our very sensible managers put the climate controls under lock and key and kept it in that wonderful warmth zone that makes clients all happy and us poor clerks slightly too warm.

Now that’s fine. But last winter, the system broke down. Four three months, the heating system went into over-drive. It was HOT. It was SO hot that we opened ALL of our doors as wide open as possible, which consisted of wedging them in snow. You see, I live in Canada so the -40 degrees Celcius (-40 degrees Fahrenheit) temperatures we were having almost managed to cool the restaurant and kept us from fainting from the heat.

I checked the temperature every day (Wishing that somehow the managers had FINALLY gotten around to fixing the darn thing.) The thermometer built in the heating system displayed temperatures from something like 0 degrees celcius to 34 degrees Celcius (93.2 Fahrenheit). During that winter, it was so warm that the needle went above the 34 degree Celcius mark and was stuck. It could go no higher.

Now, the location of the thermometer is very important. Was it near the windows through which the beautiful and ANNOYINGLY WARM sun shined its rays down on us? No. Was it at least near the BIG HUGE OVEN baking VERY HOT STUFF? Nope. The thermometer was just at the right of the opened door we had on the back and to the left of the wide-opened window through which it snowed inside the restaurant.

We kept leaving the (very annoyed and crabby) clients waiting in line just to go outside (wearing short sleeve uniforms) a few seconds and cool off. When the lines would thin, we’d (and I’m not even kidding) take turns going in the fridge and the freezer. When regular clients come in a restaurant and leave because they can’t stand the heat long enough to get their subs, there’s a problem.

Now, I’m sure that you’re asking yourself “well, why didn’t you just quit?” It’s simple. Drinks are free for employees. That has to be the only reason that the entire staff didn’t immediately quit. That and it’s just too hard to do anything when it’s hot.

I still work there. But I got my revenge. You see, I used to make minimum wage. Now, I make minimum wage plus twenty-five cents hourly. Ha! Take that, restaurant managers.

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I used to work in an all guy office. They insisted upon having the doors and windows open the very SECOND “breakup” started. I’d be like “guys, it’s 34 degrees out”!!! And they’d whine" well it’s hot in here".

Finally, in self defense, I bought a little electric heater and kept it under my desk. They’d open one too many windows, ON went the heater.

Oh, yeah, and I asked many times to be moved to the inner part of the office where it was warmer. Nooo, that would be too inconvenient, even though we all did similar work, they wanted the girl near the door in case a client heppened by.

MEN!!! :smiley:

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NOT a solution. Because it doesn’t help a BIT for the frozen fingers with which one is attempting to type. Or the frozen nose, ears and face.

Next!

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Try Japan on for size: no central heating. Every unoccupied room I go into is freezing. And damp. When I used to stay in hotels, the cleaning staff would turn off the heater if I’d left it on, even if I had it turned down to simmer. The office building we’re in turns off the heating Friday evening, and back on on Monday morning. It sometimes coasts down to 7 or 8C in here. And people wonder why our plants are all dead.

And yet, the subways are always hot. Whenever I take them in winter time, I have to remember to quickly open my coat, or even take it off, or I’m sweating in no time… which is terribly pleasant when you step into the 5C and windy outdoors. In many restaurants, if you’re not sitting in the freezing draft from the door, your under the hot air blast of the ceiling mounted heating/AC units.

Damn good thing the bars are open until dawn. Almost makes up for it.