Posted on 07/23/2015 10:19:43 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
You can spot them. The frozen ones who come outside at lunch like sun-seeking turtles, cardigans balled up next to them, bare shoulders defrosting in the noon sunlight, no matter how wilting it is outdoors.
Every single woman I talked to in downtown Washington on a hot, humid July afternoon was thawing out.
“I. Am. Fuh-reezing. Feel my hand, I’m still cold,” said Ruth Marshall, 64, who was seated on a park bench, face to the sky. And yes, her hand felt like a cold steak.
“I have to come out here for 30 minutes at a time just to warm up,” said Marshall, the director of administration at a construction firm, where the air-conditioning is set to Arctic.
It’s the time of year desperate women rely on cardigans, Pashminas and space heaters to make it through the work week in their frigid offices. And their male colleagues barely notice.
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I think someone called it: “straining at gnats ans swallowing camels.”
” I also did not wear clothing more suited for the beach then the office.”
You hit the nail on the head. I have no patience with women who come to work dressed like they are going to a beach party and then complain about being cold. I have worked with women who come to work wearing a flimsy skirt, no socks or hosiery, sleeveless blouse, and sandals. They can usually be found screwing around with the thermostat. One time I said to one of these chicks “Why don’t you go home and put some clothes on?” She did not like that. Too bad.
A man in a 3 piece wool suit in the same office as a woman with a short sleeveless summer dress. The man complains it’s too hot and the woman complains it’s too cold.
77 for an office environment is just plain silly.
Silly.
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No kidding. 68 is more like it. 70 at the most.
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Blacks will fight over too cold an AC or too low a heater
White males and I guess Eskimos
Unite!
Man-Cooling!
How sexist. lol
Set the thermostat to MANLY!
I’ve been dealing with this for years. My theory is that most office buildings have one master thermostat that controls the entire building, or a maybe a few that control entire floors. The thermostats in individual offices are almost entirely cosmetic—they’re there to make the occupants feel like they have some control. The master thermostat is controlled by the building maintenance guy. This guy is on his feet all day, doing a lot of manual work to keep the building running. He works up a sweat and sets the master thermostat to a temperature that makes sense to him. As a result, a lot of the sedentary office dwellers get cold.
I get cold in the office, and my solution is a sweater and a space heater. So long as they don’t try to take away my heater, I’ll get along just fine.
There’s no need to turn this into a drama about sexism. Just deal with it.
I think it is necessary to be those things to work for a leftist media outlet
LOL! I’m sitting here with a cardigan on. I’m working in the basement of our building. For some reason, it always gets colder down here in the afternoon.
Yes, good one Aemilius...
Perhaps offering a grog ration at midday to wake up the liver's heat production in dealing with a bit of alcohol?
FINALLY
I’ve had to suffer for years when I go into a building where fat women with their bellies sticking over the top of their short shorts will say Oooo doesn’t this cool air feel GOOOOOOOOD” even though its turning me blue with icicles hanging from my numb nose...
I carry a jacket or sweater with me in the car in 80 degree weather for just that reason..
Silly hot
I run about 4 degrees cooler than wifey
Not that Wifey
Mine
It’s more than AC
She’s more discombobulated about being uncomfortable period
She’s petty and takes care of herself and is a good mommy and wife and trusts in the Lord
They are raised since toddlers to think if they do all that they deserve to be happy comfortable loved indulged and get their way most of the time
If you can’t take the cold stay out of the office.
;)
Now here's the thing...in the winter (Wisconsin) we'll have the thermostat set at 71 degrees (furnace), and she'll be just right. But 71 degrees (AC) in the summer, and she's shivering/freezing. What gives?
I believe it’s tied to metabolisms and the fact that women’s metabolisms are slower on average. (But, disclaimer, I’m not a doctor and I did not stay at a Holiday Inn last night)
When a woman gets to be a certain age, they welcome the AC and will freeze out their male counterparts without noticing. Just sayin....
Those women will reach an age where they sweat even when the temperature is below freezing.
Enjoy being cold now, hot flashes await you!! You can always put on more clothing.
I was just thinking the same thing. And again, it’s “women and minorities hit hardest”.
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