Battle of the A/C
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At our company, our facility has tons of different thermostats to control the temp due to the size of the building. In the area I'm at, there are one or two people who periodically throughout the day turn off the A/C (which is normally set at 74 deg). No, they do not adjust the temp up a couple degrees, they will instead turn the A/C completely off. When someone realizes the A/C is off, someone else will turn the A/C down to like 60 degrees. You can see where this is going. Management attempted to put a lock box on the thermostat, but people kept prying the lock open with a screw driver so that the lock is useless. On a day where the temp is supposed to be 88-90, it sucks to be stuck in an area with alot of computers and people are turning off the A/C (of flipping it completely the other way). -Sigh-
"There's no such thing as a stupid question, only stupid people." - Mr. Garrison
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At our company, our facility has tons of different thermostats to control the temp due to the size of the building. In the area I'm at, there are one or two people who periodically throughout the day turn off the A/C (which is normally set at 74 deg). No, they do not adjust the temp up a couple degrees, they will instead turn the A/C completely off. When someone realizes the A/C is off, someone else will turn the A/C down to like 60 degrees. You can see where this is going. Management attempted to put a lock box on the thermostat, but people kept prying the lock open with a screw driver so that the lock is useless. On a day where the temp is supposed to be 88-90, it sucks to be stuck in an area with alot of computers and people are turning off the A/C (of flipping it completely the other way). -Sigh-
"There's no such thing as a stupid question, only stupid people." - Mr. Garrison
What did management have to say about the lock breaking? To me that should be a simple fix. If you are seen cracking the lock you're written up. It's locked for a reason. Wear a sweater if you're cold.
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At our company, our facility has tons of different thermostats to control the temp due to the size of the building. In the area I'm at, there are one or two people who periodically throughout the day turn off the A/C (which is normally set at 74 deg). No, they do not adjust the temp up a couple degrees, they will instead turn the A/C completely off. When someone realizes the A/C is off, someone else will turn the A/C down to like 60 degrees. You can see where this is going. Management attempted to put a lock box on the thermostat, but people kept prying the lock open with a screw driver so that the lock is useless. On a day where the temp is supposed to be 88-90, it sucks to be stuck in an area with alot of computers and people are turning off the A/C (of flipping it completely the other way). -Sigh-
"There's no such thing as a stupid question, only stupid people." - Mr. Garrison
Where I work, we have a similar problem though Our problem is that the four cubicles next to the thermostat (mine is one) get really cold while the cubicles adjacent to us get really hot. We've tried to change the venting and nothing works. In the end, the four of us usually wear jackets.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Where I work, we have a similar problem though Our problem is that the four cubicles next to the thermostat (mine is one) get really cold while the cubicles adjacent to us get really hot. We've tried to change the venting and nothing works. In the end, the four of us usually wear jackets.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
I just caught one of the people in question turning off the A/C and then head into a meeting nearby. I politely knocked on the door asked why he would turn the A/C off on a day when it's 90 degrees out, esp. when everyone has been complaining its already to hot inside. He looked like a deer in the headlights. I commented on the fact that the T-stat had this thing called a dial which could be used to slightly change the temp without having to disable it, but that everyone else would be fine with the temp being 74-75 if that was "ok" with him. The comment was a little mean considering he is an engineer and surely must know what a dial is. :laugh: I apologized a dept. head for having to do that after the meeting; otherwise, it would have just kept going on. Management here is a little on the passive side regarding writing people up - that would have nipped the problem long time ago. Don't know what it would take, but I've never seen/heard of someone getting written up.
"There's no such thing as a stupid question, only stupid people." - Mr. Garrison
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At our company, our facility has tons of different thermostats to control the temp due to the size of the building. In the area I'm at, there are one or two people who periodically throughout the day turn off the A/C (which is normally set at 74 deg). No, they do not adjust the temp up a couple degrees, they will instead turn the A/C completely off. When someone realizes the A/C is off, someone else will turn the A/C down to like 60 degrees. You can see where this is going. Management attempted to put a lock box on the thermostat, but people kept prying the lock open with a screw driver so that the lock is useless. On a day where the temp is supposed to be 88-90, it sucks to be stuck in an area with alot of computers and people are turning off the A/C (of flipping it completely the other way). -Sigh-
"There's no such thing as a stupid question, only stupid people." - Mr. Garrison
We have similar issues in our office. The main issue I have with our heating/AC system, though, is that it's not really an integrated system - there are vents in the office ceiling that emit hot or cold air, heating/cooling the office gradually. As I sit pretty much underneath one of those vents, I tend to get hot air or cold air blown on me all day. Unless I turn the thing off! Admittedly, the ambient temperature is only around 75-80F at the moment, so turning the AC off isn't really a heinous crime here :-)
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