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Things about your co-workers that annoy you
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There has been many times when all that I wanted was a supervisor that understood the laws of physics.
Are those people on the spectrum? It's like Rain Man, freaking out when his brother removed a book from his shelf.
The coworker I have nicknamed "The Ice Princess", because she is ALWAYS COLD. I know I've ranted about her here before.
Thermostat is set at 72° in the office, yesterday it was between 25-30° outside. Enough machines and people in the office that by mid-afternoon, it had risen to 74° (in other words, the furnace WASN'T RUNNING). But she decided to bump the thermostat down to 71°, because it was getting warm.
HOW THE FLOCK DO PEOPLE GRADUATE WITH AN ENGINEERING DEGREE, AND NOT UNDERSTAND HOW A SIMPLE LOGIC CONTROL CIRCUIT WORKS? If the ambient temperature is above the set point of the thermostat, it doesn't matter if you set it to floccin' FORTY, it isn't going to make a difference. But she was all pleased with herself because "I was nice, I turned down the heat."
No, you airhead. You turned down the set point.
Thermostat is set at 72° in the office, yesterday it was between 25-30° outside. Enough machines and people in the office that by mid-afternoon, it had risen to 74° (in other words, the furnace WASN'T RUNNING). But she decided to bump the thermostat down to 71°, because it was getting warm.
HOW THE FLOCK DO PEOPLE GRADUATE WITH AN ENGINEERING DEGREE, AND NOT UNDERSTAND HOW A SIMPLE LOGIC CONTROL CIRCUIT WORKS? If the ambient temperature is above the set point of the thermostat, it doesn't matter if you set it to floccin' FORTY, it isn't going to make a difference. But she was all pleased with herself because "I was nice, I turned down the heat."
No, you airhead. You turned down the set point.
iijakii
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I used to work in a place that had such a bull**** thermostat. It was either blowing hot or cold. I swear it never turned off. We all tried programming it differently and nothing seemed to help. Didnt help that one lady was always cold and kept bumping it up 1 degree here and there, which was enough to turn on THE BLAZE.
maybe she thought the hysteresis in the control is zero and the AC would kick in. 
hunter_le five
Sheriff Underscore
You work here?
One of my employees has done the same. She's also the same lady that thinks if she turns it up to a higher number, it will heat faster, and if she turns it down to a lower number, it will cool faster.
No, it's either on or it's off. All that you accomplish by jacking it up to 80°F is forgetting you did that until everyone is sweaty and b!tchy and wondering what ******* turned the heat up to 80. Or forgetting she set it to 60°F and freezing the whole unit up by the end of the day.
drainbamage
Keep HBT weird.
Nah, nothing like that, mostly just fear of change like fins said.
[Also, the guy's an ex-Marine, so I'm sure there was an element of "suck it up, you pvssies" in there. Doesn't really affect me either way.]
Incidentally, the admin was off today, so The Door stayed open. We'll see how much wailing and gnashing of teeth there will be tomorrow when she shuts it again.
drainbamage
Keep HBT weird.
Good luck. I've tried explaining that one to my wife many a time. No success yet.
fuzzy2133
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Reminds me of my grandfathers philosophy that the shop was not open unless the office door, front and rear roll up doors were open (fully open for public to see everyone working) with the open sign showing in the office.
This was what he was taught working at a gas station for his first job and it was his opening/closing routine until he retired.
OMG This!!!! Don't Fvcking touch it, it's fine. No, you CAN leave the thermostat set at 68, have the furnace set to ON, AND the windows open when it's 76 outside this afternoon.... Cuz it won't floccing KICK ON UNTIL IT GETS DOWN TO 68 in here!!!!!
drainbamage
Keep HBT weird.
Yup, exactly.
"Turn the furnace off, we're wasting power!"
No...it's set at 65 and ambient temperature in the house is 68. The furnace isn't running, no power is being wasted.
I've given up on tilting at that particular windmill.
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Paper steamers like this appear most days in the men's cubicles at work. Why does it annoy me?
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Hey, at least they're not used.
Wait. People do that? Do people have a habit of peeking on poopers in your office?
I have the same issue with my wife in the car. She asks why I'm turning down the thermostat, because "it's not even hot outside." Well, no ****... I'm not outside. I'm in the car. And in here, it's roasting.
Luckily we have a vehicle with dual zone climate control now. Probably saved our marriage!
Well actually....
The transformer in the furnace is ALWAYS on. Until you cut power to the furnace itself (usually a red switch in the vicinity of the furnace, or flip the breaker), the transformer will ALWAYS be converting 120v to 24v (all of the furnace's circuitry is on the 24v side). However, the power that's being drawn is minimal until the thermostat switch actually closes.
This is referred to as "ghost load".
drainbamage
Keep HBT weird.
Correct, but by "turn off the furnace", she really just means "change the thermostat from Heat to Off." The furnace itself is left on the entire time, so her argument is moot.
And besides, if we were really that concerned about power consumption, there are much more obvious places we could start than the thermostat.
But, this is not "things about your spouses that annoy you"...unless you work with them, in which case, may God have mercy on your soul.
I work for a moving company, and today's job was....fun.
7 hours into the job (emptying a furniture store), cops showed up to stop the move. We weren't allowed to bring out one more piece.
Turns out, the client hadn't been paying rent for that retail spot in the Byward Market, and the corporation that owned the property called the cops to stop them from leaving. There was talk about making us put all the furniture back into the store (we just spent 7 hours padding and loading heavy furniture, we don't want to put it all back), but apparently the property manager was happy with us locking the trailer and putting a customs seal on it.
So now the client has to deal with the property manager's legal team before they're allowed to access their own property on our trucks.
7 hours into the job (emptying a furniture store), cops showed up to stop the move. We weren't allowed to bring out one more piece.
Turns out, the client hadn't been paying rent for that retail spot in the Byward Market, and the corporation that owned the property called the cops to stop them from leaving. There was talk about making us put all the furniture back into the store (we just spent 7 hours padding and loading heavy furniture, we don't want to put it all back), but apparently the property manager was happy with us locking the trailer and putting a customs seal on it.
So now the client has to deal with the property manager's legal team before they're allowed to access their own property on our trucks.
Ugh. I've played day laborer as a mover a few times. Actually learned a lot about lifting heavy things. It's impressive what an average person can move with the right technique and a little leverage.
I did a move once and the guy had a pirate chest. The chest alone would have been heavy. This was no decorative piece. I don't know what was in it, but it was filled solid. The regualr movers said it was probably porno mags.
I did a move once and the guy had a pirate chest. The chest alone would have been heavy. This was no decorative piece. I don't know what was in it, but it was filled solid. The regualr movers said it was probably porno mags.
was this guy my mom? if so, it probably was porno mags.
Explain how Customs has jurisdiction over goods that have long been inside a store that's deep inside the country.
"Customs seal" is a common name for a standard type of seal that has non-customs uses, like any other time you want to prove to a first, second or third party that an item hasn't been accessed or tampered with.
yes, this is what we did.
We put a "customs seal" on the trailer to prove to whoever needs to know that the contents of the trailer hasn't been accessed.
I don't even know wtf happened there.
Staff at my work cannot grasp the idea of thermostats. At all. Some don't understand GFCI outlets, either.
I don't even know wtf happened there.
Staff at my work cannot grasp the idea of thermostats. At all. Some don't understand GFCI outlets, either.
Heh, no problem with that here:
1. There are no thermostats inside of commercial property in this country, other than those who are only accessible to maintenance men and apply to the entire building.
2. Every outlet in this country, that exists inside commercial property, is GFCI. Except for those that are placed two meters high on the wall and designated only for a refrigerator or freezer.
n240sxguy
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I don't even know wtf happened there.
Staff at my work cannot grasp the idea of thermostats. At all. Some don't understand GFCI outlets, either.
What don't they understand about a gfci outlet?
petey_c
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After you clarify that, then you can start explaining AFCIs....
Clarify, sure. Justify their requirement...unlikely.
That it needs to be reset if tripped. They seem to think that appliances just break all the time.
The one in my roommate's bathroom is CONSTANTLY tripped. I was wondering if there was an electrical problem until I found out she presses the button on it to stop the kids from electrocuting themselves.
I don't think she understands that it'll trip itself before that happens, unless the kids find a way to insert themselves into a circuit that's going back to neutral.
Where I work is basically a home environment, so access to pretty much everything. Fortunately, they're too stupid to try to figure out a problem on their own, so they ask me to fix everything. Including reset of tripped outlets.
Shorting live and neutral is not an incredibly difficult task for some brats to accomplish.
Some people might not need to remain in the gene pool.
I had a conversation once with a coworker about earliest memories. He claimed he could remember an incident when he was three years old. Me: "What could you possibly remember when you were that young?"
Coworker: "The time I stuck a fork in a wall outlet."
1977Brewer
Free Dan Hess.
My ONLY memory from that time was a nightmare I had about my potty. My sister got sucked down into it when it was flushed (Of course, I now know that not only don't potties have any plumbing, they are also highly unlikely to pull a person in the room down into it).
I'm sure that might have delayed my potty training, but I actually don't remember at which age i started using the big boy toilet, so I can't be sure.
