useless whining

[elvendoll]

i don't understand other people.
to me, it makes absolutely no sense to keep the indoor temperature colder when it is warm out then when it is cold out - if you're wearing lighter clothes, don't you want it to be warmer?

i'm also starting to realize that it's not just the air coming out of the vent to the side of my cube that bothers me - it's the noise it makes, too. the white noise is just loud enough to set me on edge, and when i'm tense, i'm more likely to feel cold.

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[sensesurfer.livejournal.com]

I never get that........at a previous office I worked in, cow-orkers would want to close windows and turn on the AC when it was a beautiful 75-80 degree day outside. People really are weird.

[elvendoll.livejournal.com]

this winter, i found out that our comptroller thought it was perfectly reasonable to set the thermostats to start heating at 68 and kick off the AC at 72.
this is made even funnier by the fact that most of the office is a huge open space with offices lining the outside; when the walls were built for us, the vent configuration was never modified from the previous tenants, so that none of the thermostats in the offices control just the office they're in, and too many of them control some of the vents in the center - so one office's door being open and another's being closed could make the heat and the AC go on at the same time.

[frobzwiththingz.livejournal.com]

In a large corporate building, it's not necessarily the people; I've never worked in a large building where the heating/cooling system zones were ever designed properly, and there were always areas where it was just too damn cold/hot at times where it just shoudn't be. One the the buildings i was in had the thermostats set up such that several of them were located in each others zone of control! This led to all sorts of interesting oscillation behavior until we figures it out and reran the wiring (without telling the building managers. it *never* would have been fixed that way). Sometimes the only thing you can do is to cover over the vents in your office. The building hvac folk hate this, but dammit, i shouldnt need to wear a sweatshirt and jacket in my office in July. Grump!

[elvendoll.livejournal.com]

here, it's partially the people and partially a royally screwed setup. only noone here will rewire it, and i need at least one sweatshirt on even after the vent above my cube has been closed.
of course it doesn't help that the building people claim that the vent to the side of my cube only sucks air in when it clearly blows cold air on me. i think the next miracle invention should be cube ceilings.