Office Microclimate

People’s attitudes to it, really. In winter or summer, the temperature in the office is exactly the same. Technically, you should be all right wearing the same clothing year-round. Why do some people not experience temperature in this way?

If it is a cold day, they will come inside dressed in coat and scarf and mutter about being cold for seven hours. On a hot day they will come in exposing all of their flesh and go on about how they can’t bear the heat until you stuff their mouths with thirty-six ice cubes. This is despite the fact that the temperature inside the building is identical.

Why are they so stupid and why are their bodies so stupid as to agree with them? In winter they adjust the thermostat so that the temperature is three degrees higher ‘because it’s so cold’. In summer they lower it by three degrees ‘because it’s so hot’. You’re not making it three degrees hotter or cooler than outside, retards. Centigrade isn’t a fluctuating measurement dependent on outside temperature, it’s a constant.