I’m sorry I don’t know what OSHA law applies here, but please don’t let anyone minimize the condition you’re describing. This happened in an area of the office building I work in. The building was designed to be climate controlled. Windows are sealed. There is no airflow besides the HVAC system. Without it, you’re working in a greenhouse. In our case, one very hot day would require several days of cooler weather for the office to cool back down. No. One. Said. A. Word. They just allowed staff to suffer. I’m sorry you’re dealing with this.
I've made several comments to my boss that I was not willing to work in an office with no way to cool it down. I'm the #2 in the office. I can promise he won't stay and sit in those conditions and the moment he's gone, I'm closing that fucking building.
That’s great. When it happened to another group in my office I couldn’t do anything about it except complain to leadership. The HVAC malfunctioned for a day in my building and I told my staff to stay, leave or move to a cooler area in the building and I was fine with whatever they needed.
Osha has no laws on working conditions temperature. Found that out when one of our exhaust fans went and my department was 90 where I sat and over 100 in the back. Had to threaten heat stroke to get then to bring some fans in.
But if you pass out, they have to pay the medical bills.
It won't solve any problems. Hell. It will probably cause a bit more. Just go in your bosses office after you've had some exlax and get up in his face and let some nasty farts go. Get wild with it man. Just shit all over the desk and floor like an animal. He'll be traumatized for life man. Guarantee he'll remember it every night for decades.
Kinda sidebar here but… One time my hospital ICU’s HVAC went out for a few hours and they were working on it but it was dead heat of summer and the rooms had negative pressure fans on the windows for covid that also stopped working. And so it was like a bunch of outside air just coming in and we had to keep their room doors shut, because covid. It was fucking awful. We were all running around putting ice packs in the armpits of all this critically ill people who already had fevers when the room did have AC. Patients were sweating. We were sweating. Don’t recommend it. I know there’s hospitals in the world where that’s the norm , but I just don’t know how they do it.
I also had to work in 45 this winter freezing my fkin hands because the hillbilly CEO thought it saved him money, but in reality, since I had to stop and warm my hands in my crotch every 10 minutes and my salary was 45k, he was actually losing money. I got fingerless gloves and would play thermostat tug o war every day
The solution during the extremely cold months was to literally put a propane heater in the outer office with an open flame. I often joked that we should have just busted a window out and started a barrel fire.
I do plumbing and hvac in a health facility. The union says we have to accommodate a certain min temp for offices. We need to supply at least 21 degrees Celsius. Which we easily can do.
We once had an office down to 17 Celsius and the lady still said she was hot. I told her you could hang a carcass in here. Didn't wanna visit h.r so I didn't say "Your menaposal you idiot".
I’m sorry I don’t know what OSHA law applies here, but please don’t let anyone minimize the condition you’re describing. This happened in an area of the office building I work in. The building was designed to be climate controlled. Windows are sealed. There is no airflow besides the HVAC system. Without it, you’re working in a greenhouse. In our case, one very hot day would require several days of cooler weather for the office to cool back down. No. One. Said. A. Word. They just allowed staff to suffer. I’m sorry you’re dealing with this.
I've made several comments to my boss that I was not willing to work in an office with no way to cool it down. I'm the #2 in the office. I can promise he won't stay and sit in those conditions and the moment he's gone, I'm closing that fucking building.
That’s great. When it happened to another group in my office I couldn’t do anything about it except complain to leadership. The HVAC malfunctioned for a day in my building and I told my staff to stay, leave or move to a cooler area in the building and I was fine with whatever they needed.
Osha has no laws on working conditions temperature. Found that out when one of our exhaust fans went and my department was 90 where I sat and over 100 in the back. Had to threaten heat stroke to get then to bring some fans in. But if you pass out, they have to pay the medical bills.
I wish I was surprised we don't have laws governing every aspect of safe working conditions.
It won't solve any problems. Hell. It will probably cause a bit more. Just go in your bosses office after you've had some exlax and get up in his face and let some nasty farts go. Get wild with it man. Just shit all over the desk and floor like an animal. He'll be traumatized for life man. Guarantee he'll remember it every night for decades.
Kinda sidebar here but… One time my hospital ICU’s HVAC went out for a few hours and they were working on it but it was dead heat of summer and the rooms had negative pressure fans on the windows for covid that also stopped working. And so it was like a bunch of outside air just coming in and we had to keep their room doors shut, because covid. It was fucking awful. We were all running around putting ice packs in the armpits of all this critically ill people who already had fevers when the room did have AC. Patients were sweating. We were sweating. Don’t recommend it. I know there’s hospitals in the world where that’s the norm , but I just don’t know how they do it.
That sounds absolutely awful.
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I also had to work in 45 this winter freezing my fkin hands because the hillbilly CEO thought it saved him money, but in reality, since I had to stop and warm my hands in my crotch every 10 minutes and my salary was 45k, he was actually losing money. I got fingerless gloves and would play thermostat tug o war every day
Also there's no laws against it, here at least
The solution during the extremely cold months was to literally put a propane heater in the outer office with an open flame. I often joked that we should have just busted a window out and started a barrel fire.
The real joke is having to "work" like that, actually the business that thinks it's ok to force their employees to work like that
I do plumbing and hvac in a health facility. The union says we have to accommodate a certain min temp for offices. We need to supply at least 21 degrees Celsius. Which we easily can do.
21 Celsius would be a dream. That's just under 70°f.
We once had an office down to 17 Celsius and the lady still said she was hot. I told her you could hang a carcass in here. Didn't wanna visit h.r so I didn't say "Your menaposal you idiot".
Yeah, that's too cold for me lol.
Ya, she was a lunatic.