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Every morning I come to work it is freezing in the building. I was just wondering is it the same way at your place of work?

It is where I work, but thats only because I'm forgettful and leave the air on at the end of the day.

Oh yeah! I have to have a hot cup of java when I walk in the door to keep my fingers working to type! It sucks!.

My attempt at cold morning at work haiku...

A warm summer day.

I forgot my sweater.

Nipples.

It depends. I work in a semi-high rise (we don't have any really tall building here in little ol' Savannah) and the hallways leading to the office are freezing Tues through Thursday. Mondays it is sweltering because the geniuses turn the a/c off over the weekend. How many more PSAs do we need before the management here realizes that is not energy efficient?

As far as it goes in the office, it's always a pleasant 76 degrees in here - the thermostat is near my desk

Ask your boss, or whoever pays the electric bill, how much they are willing to donate to the electric company above and beyond what is actually needed to cool the building.
Putting it that way may make them get a "setback" thermostat installed, or fix whatever the problem is.
Or, are you like a few of my former co-workers? Zero body fat, thus no insulation. Even in the summer these people wear sweaters.

We share our thermostat with a metabolic research center AKA a dieting place with a lot of reubenesque women, and being a bit waif, myself, I am always freezing.

when I worked in an office building with many different groups in it (I was working for The National Institutes of Health) they kept it pretty frigid. I always brought a pullover or zip up sweater/sweatshirt with me.

haha on the hanging meat

I've noticed that when I've visited America. Not only is practically every building fully air conditioned (unliked many in the UK, especially older ones), but the temperature setting when it's warm outside always seemes to be set to "numbingly cold".

For the climate in the US, where the high temperatures tend to be uncomfortably hot (unless you're at the beach or in a sauna), I can understand the necessity to have ubiquitous air conditioning. That's a good thing. But why set it to maximum chill the whole time, so you have to put a sweater ON when you go indoors?

I just don't understand it. And - given the posts already here - neither do many of you.

It's all of the fat people here, Julian.

Except for the clothing stores. Malls keep the temperatures cold to provide some initiative to buy winter clothes well before the season.

I have the same problem, but in a different season. Our AC isn't set all that high, but - absurdly - my building (which houses about 2000 employees) has no heating. Granted our winters are fairly mild here in central Florida, but when it gets down to about forty degrees, it takes a while (even for all those fat people) to warm the building up a bit.

These mornings have been as low as 2degC.
Think it's about time I went home to the UK..........its warmer there.

Al

I work in a Bank in a grocery store. When you come in there is a sign that save we use less lights to conserve on energy. Which they do. But it is freezing is there. I feel like I am in the meat locker. We have many customers who ask how we can stand it so cold. I usually wear a long sleeved blouse or top and a blazer. And believe me I am still cold. I work with "fatter" people than me and they are cold too. So much for conservation with not using a lot of lights.

Oh Mom.......

Can I send a few 'Woolie' cardigans to you??.
It aint fair you should get cold Mom...

Care and warm to you.....Alan

In the summers of 1964 and '65, I worked in a plastic coating factory. I would carry an uncoated rack into a 390 degree (F.) oven, pull a hot rack out, and then dip it in a plastic suspension. The plastic would start to gel to the rack, we would lift it out and let it drain. Then we would repeat the process. When there were enough to fill the second oven, it was filled with uncured racks which then were baked out at 350 degrees. I found myself wearing a coat to stay warm in the 90 degree weather.

I spent the much of my life working in "buildings" in a chemical plant which had enclosed control rooms, but minimal or no walls in the actual production areas. Between that, and maintenance work at the end of my career, I became acclimated to wide temperature swings.

For the most part these days, I prefer to dress in long sleeved flannel shirts summer or winter. If I am making other people cold, I will be asked to wear a coat. If I am making other people swelter, I will be asked to wear a short sleeve shirt. It always amazes me that the way that I dress would affect someone else's perception of the temperature.

Bill55AZ has a point. Thermostats that set the temperature according to the time of the day, and the day of the week can be easily installed, programmed, and for the most part ignored. (Some run on batteries.) If you stay with the same brand of thermostat, sometimes it is simply a case of leaving the base and wiring intact, and replacing the working portion of the thermostat. Temperatures can then be set to adjust automatically to where they are needed before the start of the workday, and set themselves back at the end of the workday. Pick up some literature at the local hardware store on what's available locally, or do some research here on the net. A search for Programmable Thermostats a moment ago returned about 20,000 results.

Indeed. The current hot spell is reaching 32C today (that's 90F to antediluvians and metrophobics ), forecast to possibly break records on Wednesday. The hottest temperature on record for the UK is 36C (98F), and the weathermen are saying we might hit 100F (37.7C) or more midweek.

So I'm beginning to see the attraction of ubiquitous air conditioning - especially in my bedroom.

I'd even wear a vest . Which reminds me, is air-con the reaons why all male American actors wear vests underneath their shirts on TV? Is it to keep them warm inside the refrigerated buildings, or are they to stop the sweat form showing through their shirts? Or both? I've always wondered, but as I've only ever visited the USA in winter it seemed churlish to ask someone there.