Heat? You want HEAT? In MY day, we didn’t have heat! We were locked in basement with blocks of ice strapped to our heads for twenty hours a day! And we didn’t have fancy-schmancy computers - we had quills and watery ink and had to write everything longhand on cold, crispy papyrus that would snap in half because they were covered in frost! And lunch? We didn’t have lunch - we had to nibble little bits of the moss growing around us in our cold, dark, dank basement and chew on papyrus until our teeth rotted out - and we liked it!
Nah, I was just trying to think of a good follow-up line but am too uncreative to manage one.
It also got me thinking of my last job, where our area had no heat for something like 4 days. The maintenance guys were too busy trying to restore heat to a couple of entire buildings that had none, so we were low on the priority list. We technically didn’t have to come into work, but we couldn’t really leave our office unstaffed since we worked in a pediatric cardiology office in a hospital. So, we came in and worked anyway. There’s nothing like working at a computer in a parka, trying to figure out if you can type better with padded gloves or stiff fingers.
So, can you go home if you’re, you know, SICK? Cause I would be feelin’ a real bad flu coming on right about now. Maybe you should stick your finger down your throat and go vomit on your boss’s desk. That oughta do it.
Oh, I forgot to add my Canadian perspective here - I have never worked for a company that didn’t understand people calling in “my car is stuck in driveway and can’t get out”, or people leaving early in a bad snowstorm. People would leave anyway if they tried it.
Do they actually own the building or are the offices rented out. It may be building management that turned down the heat because, you know, everyone left for the the day.
