i work in an annex "building". like the ones you see on elementary school playgrounds. a helicopter landing 200 yards away literally shakes the wall to which my cubicle is attached. one day this winter i brought a thermometer to work just to see how freezing my work space truly is.
now, i am not an entirely unreasonable person, and i know that i tend to run on the cold side. i wear sweaters year-round and wool socks at work simply because i want to feel my toes when i stand up. a lot of days i do not even take off my scarf when i arrive. but i work at a desk, typing on a computer, and gloves are not especially conducive to any kind of productivity on my part. i would truly LOVE to watch the cushy executives in their cushy heated office stick their hands in a bucket of ice water and then try to type a sentence. actually, what i would really love to watch happen...um, well, that is an entirely different post.
anyway, back to the thermometer test. while standing outside the "building", the thermometer read 39 degrees, and while sitting on my desk rose to a whopping 55 degrees. i do not care if you are hot-flashing menopausal or 400 pounds of fat sweaty grossness, there is no acceptable reason under any circumstances to keep an office where people sit at desks all day that freaking frigid.
fricking reeeediculous.
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