Women going through the menopause should be allowed to turn heating down at work, a Government quango has said.
An individual one? Sure, everyone should be able to do that. A shared one – hmm. Always the problem with any communal resource, innit? Which or what majority gets to rule?
ha, had the discussion last night, about when to turn the CH on. Bloke said he’d just taken a picture of the thermostat in the gents and sent it to his wife. The thermostat has a max of 5C. –
(apparently just turns on the heating to stop pipes freezing and that’s it.)
When I was working the common complaint from the women in the office was that it was too cold. If one complained I was told to use my fans. Probably why I ended up with 2 fans -one under the desk and one on the desk and woe betide anyone who opened a window.
Indeed as moqifen said. The complaint I usually heard was that it was too cold.
This video from about 25 years ago dums it up nicely
https://youtu.be/49OuUOZec8o?feature=shared
Blast
15 years ago, I meant
Where I once worked I had to wear gloves and an extra jacket. My desk was underneath the A/C unit, the thermostat was at the other end of the office. It was always too cold. Perhaps menopausal women could be given desks underneath the A/C?
It’s more about how small a minority we can get to call the shots these days.
Do chilly women working from home crank up the heating or put on a cardy?
(Casual sociology visitors here are welcome to use this as the basis for a PhD thesis).
Remember, this is after 13 years of Conservative government. Your taxes go on people saying that there should be menopause awareness training. Employers and employees can’t just sit down, talk about problems and work things out.
Personally I think there’s a lot of women in offices who just shouldn’t be there. That what they do is zero sum. Like they work on useless government bureaucracy, which costs money, which come from taxes, which their husband pays. If we dismantled a lot of the state, they could stay home and cook, garden, do some voluntary work, and everyone would be happier. The average NHS health centre seems to have about 3 times as many receptionists as a private hospital.
I’ve found that menopausal women tend to oscillate between too hot and too cold. Just give them a fake remote for the thermostat and let the placebo effect do its work.
The average NHS health centre seems to have about 3 times as many receptionists as a private hospital.
And none of them doing any actual recepting.
Best solution is a temperature control dial in each section of the office, none of which do anything at all, but digitally show the current temperature (to demonstrate that they work), but not connected to anything other than glued to the wall.
Then the lassies can fiddle it up and down to their hearts content and the temperature regulation of the building will do it’s thing.
If they’re cold, they should put on a jumper or cardigan as previous generations have done to zero effect since offices became a thing.
It’s Autumn FFS!
Rule #1 is no central heating until 1st November and even then only set at an ambient to take the chill off (16C being fine), as above, wear a bloody jumper.
…and yes, I’m in Scotland and it’s already wet and cold enough outside.
Was staying at a place about 100 miles from the Artic Circle and they had sign next to the thermostat saying do not turn below 16 degrees as you needed a certain ambient temperature to stop things freezing up, was interesting to see the haze around houses when temperatures were in the -50’s
Apparently they had a lot of travel nurses stay there and they were prone to messing with the heating
Chris Miller—we worked in a US office that had more phony, not connected thermostats than real ones. Everyone seemed happy.