Heat

[ladyofastolat]

I have come to the conclusion that I work in a strange alternative reality.

What I definitely work in is an oven. Library HQ is a square, metal box of a warehouse, divided into two storeys. Downstairs is rather too hot, but upstairs, where my desk is, is unbearable. Walking up those stairs is like descending (upwards) into Hell, each step taking you somewhere that's hotter and more airless than the last. There is no loft space, so the flat, metal roof is just above us. The only windows are south-facing, and we can't open them much. It's just awful.

However, the reason I think it's in a different reality is that the temperature inside doesn't match the temperature outside. Last week, when we had the hottest day yet in this heatwave, the temperature inside was less unbearable than normal. Today, though... Today was by far the worst yet - everyone said so. However, when I left work, I stepped outside into a pleasant cooling breeze, and a day that feels far less oppressively hot than it's felt for quite a while.

Odd.

(This icon is meant as a plea.)

Comments

[evilmissbecky.livejournal.com]

Seeing as how this seems to happen every year, I truly think it would behoove most businesses to invest in air conditioning. The expenditure would pay for itself in the ability to keep both employees and customers happy and comfortable. I mean, on a hot summer day when I'm outside, sometimes I'll duck into a store just to get into the air conditioning and escape the heat. And if it's a store I like, the chances are good I might buy something. But if I go inside and it's just as hot inside as it is outside, I'm not going to stick around very long. Just my two cents.

Then again, I live in Florida. I cannot conceive of life without air conditioning. :-)

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Though of course air conditioning is bad for the environment. It's a vicious circle. If our summers are going to get hotter and hotter, and if this is due to global warming, then more and more places will install air conditioning, which will only make the problem worse.

Not that the Council would ever dream of giving us money to buy it. We've only have fans at work because we've all brought them in from home. *grumble grumble*

[chainmailmaiden]

Your work sounds worse than mine, at least we don't have a metal roof above us. What's the betting you freeze in the winter? Though at least when it's cold you can add more layers.

I volunteered to attend a meeting I didn't need to go to on Wednesday afternoon thinking I was being really clever as the room it was held in was air-conditioned. Unfortunately the air-con had packed up a few hours earlier, so I ended up both bored and hot :-(