Triumphs

[jethrien]

The electricians have come and fixed the light that was making the incredibly irritating intermittant buzzing sound! Hurrah!

The on-going temperature war in my office between the people who are freezing (the side I'm on) and the people who complain on a daily basis about how hot and stuffy it is and demand that we all agree with them is currently being lost by my side. It's quite chilly in here. And my lovely new stripey blouse with the awesome pseudo-Victorian sleeves (an indication that steampunk's hit mainstream if I've ever seen one) really can't be worn to full effect with a jacket. But through cunning use of undergarments and vests, I have defeated the cold! Ha ha! (Well, mostly. My hands are still cold, but that can't be helped. I'm not wearing gloves in the office. But my core temperature seems to be ok, and that's the part that's important for being able to work.)

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[(Anonymous)]

I've got the same situation, but I'm on the blazingly hot side. It was so bad that they installed new windows so Marge and I can open them and get some relief. Opening the windows just made more heat crank out. Then they put in a window air conditioner. That doesn't work because when we turn it on, it short-circuits the power in the entire building.

There's no heat at all on the other side of the building, right across the hall.

Add my hot flashes and it's like trying to work in a sauna. All the time.

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[shnayder.livejournal.com]

gloves! Gloves are awesome! I've done that on occasion. With thin ones you can actually type too :)

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

...I suspect that being a guy in a tech field, you can get away with a more eccentric wardrobe than I can. But I do not believe that wearing gloves in the office will increase my colleagues' respect for me.

[cubby-t-bear.livejournal.com]

It would give added illustration to your complaints about the temperature, however :) Victor, where do you get such gloves?

[saxbabe.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure everyone is my old office thought I was crazy anyway, but I had gloves, hat, scarf, wool wrap and blankets in my cube because it was always an ice box in there...and pretty much anywhere I have ever worked :-/
Not that anyone ever does anything about it....

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

The problem is that I'm on a sales team - while I'm not an actual salesperson, image is really important. I know some of the snarking that has gone around about bad wardrobe decisions, and don't particularly wish to bring it on myself.

(The snarking in question? Totally deserved. Really, pink tights with tweed shorts? Really? And the Flashdance reject was also not a winner.)

[saxbabe.livejournal.com]

Gee, hope I don't ever work anywhere image is that important! I'm always cold, so I just have to be prepared. All the extra layers wouldn't have been necessary if the building had let us use space heaters!
I feel for you :)

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

We are allowed to use space heaters, and some of my colleagues do. But I'm sitting right next to the folks who are always hot, and I'm kind of convinced that if I brought in a space heater, it would just make everything worse.

It's not that superficial a concern - we've got clients in and out all the time, and you never really know when you're going to get called in to pinch hit. I certainly don't want to give a bad impression to some museum president from Taiwan, after we've spent this much effort coaxing him out here. Plus, I tend to feel a lot more confident in a smart jacket and good shoes.

(Unfortunately, the pronoun is correct. I've met almost no female museum presidents, especially from abroad.)

[chantal1382.livejournal.com]

The last wardrobe decision I had to make for work was which holster to wear. Concealed on the back, tactical thigh drop, or shoulder? I have more holsters in country than I do nice bras. =D

Damn it, if I get out does that mean I have to wear adult clothes?

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

All three! If you wear them all over your clothes, you can look like a video game character!

It depends on what your job ends up being, now doesn't it?

[fairylane.livejournal.com]

I have the opposite problem...I've been working downstairs as much as I can, because the rooms in the upper floor that I work in are boiling. Like, sometimes when I'm on a ladder lifting heavy things into cabinets I think I'm going to faint, boiling. Of course that's better than the other room, which the dog must have peed in at some point because it's both boiling *and* smells like roasted dog urine.

Yeah, I like working on the downstairs computer better. Plus it increases my chances that someone cooking in the kitchen will offer me a sandwich. (Yes, today I got paid in sandwich. Better than nothing.)