My boss must be insane.
In order to partially cover recent financial losses, he is severely restricting our use of the thermostat in the middle of a heat wave in the middle of the summer! He gave us a big talk yesterday about cutting costs anywhere it’s possible.
A good part of the discussion was what he considered to be our abuse of the thermostat that controlled the temperature of our office space. The thermostat was barely on my radar prior to this. Apparently, other employees had been having thermostat wars, or something. Honestly, the fluctuation in temperatures wasn’t something that I noticed too much. Now, however, after this big long talk about budgeting, the very next day, I noticed a distinct difference in the temperature of the office! The thermostat was now encased in a plastic sheath that required a key to open! Our boss didn’t waste any time setting that up, now did he? Also, I could barely believe how warm it was in the office when I walked in that morning. I did the same thing a couple others did, I walked over to the thermostat to see what temperature it was reading. Our boss had locked the temperature to 79°! 79°? That’s an absurdly high temperature. You almost may as well not even have the air conditioner running at all. In fact, the air conditioner didn’t have much trouble keeping the temperature at 79° throughout the day. I only heard it kick on a handful of times. Meanwhile, everybody’s sweating at their desk and having misgivings about their job situation!