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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Chilly

I realized that the cubicle I sit in at my new job is directly underneath an air vent -- no wonder I've been so cold at work, despite the Bay Area experiencing an unseasonable heatwave! So today, I dressed for inside temps, not outside. And I felt much more comfortable.

What I'm wearing:
Black sweater with ruched sleeves, H&M | Grey sleeveless sheath dress, Target | Black tights, Calvin Klein | Black kitten-heel pumps, Payless Shoe Source | Purple & grey floral scarf, Old Navy | Silver cameo earrings, vintage

It was amusing when a coworker said, upon noticing my pointy shoes in the elevator, "I wouldn't want to get kicked with those."  I laughed & replied, "Well let's make sure I don't have to!" Yeah, I think I'm going to get along with this team.


Does the temperature inside your office vary greatly from the temps outside? How do you cope?

12 comments:

  1. My job is super warm and humid, so I keep shoes at work (in case I wear boots) and always wear a suitable tank top under everything, so I can strip down and not look too ridiculous. Of course, the other room is really cold, so when I switch from active work to computer work, I layer everything back on including a toque and scarf at times. :)

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  2. I have a quite warm office but the factory is a bit colder so I use layers to be able to peel off when needed. I change my shoes and sometimes take them off while working by the computor.

    I think you should make sure that you're not sitting in a draught and get ache in your shoulders.



    The sweater looks so nice :)

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  3. I work in an office and although mine's not the coldest, it is always a lot colder than the main building--sometimes even colder than outside! Right now our temps are in the 40s (outside) so I layer up: leggings over tights, cardigans under blazers, fingerless mittens...and I sit on a heating pad! My boss wears thick slippers and a ski jacket :)

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  4. It is really cold in my office - I keep a cardigan or hoody at my desk
    at all times. I get to control the temp in my lab, so I have that jacked
    all the way up. Most buildings seem temp controlled for men in 3-piece
    suits.

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  5. That's totally it -- 'men in three-piece suits'! And yet I've never worked in a place where men wear suits. Oi.

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  6. OMG, ski jacket, that *is* a chilly office!

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  7. Layers, yep, that's the key. Hopefully I'll be moving around to a different spot soon & also working from home. But this first week has been more breezy than I expected.

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  8. Geez, talk about temperature change! What a hassle.

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  9. There's not much correlation between outside and inside temperature, except that the building grows more overheated as the weather gets colder. I am always hot, even though I wear tank tops or t-shirts year 'round. I can barely cope with my stuffy little closet of an office. Sometimes I work in a conference room, where I can turn on the A/C. In the winter, sometimes I'll take my laptop and work outside for a while. Of course, my coworkers think I'm insane for sitting outside in the shade wearing a t-shirt when it's 45 degrees. But I think they're insane for wearing a heavy sweater and cranking up their space heater when it's 80 degrees in the building. ;) If it were up to me, I would group people by temperature tolerance, not department. :)

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  10. HAH!! That'd be awesome, to put people together at work by temperature :-D

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  11. My Branch moved floors recently, so I no longer sit under an A/C vent. Our area was always freezing, building services claimed that the average temperature on the floor was within their guidelines & wouldn't do anything, forgetting that we were under direct blasts of freezing air. Even in summer I had to have a jacket with me. I also kept a wool wrap at my desk to wrap myself up in when the cold got too much.

    Our new floor is wonderful, so far. Temperature is kept even & no blasts of cold air from the a/c vents. But, we've been told that once summer hits, we will start complaining that it's too hot. Glass walls & we face directly into the afternoon sun. We've already had a few hots days & it hasn't been too hot yet, so we'll see on that.

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  12. Fingers crossed that summer won't be too extreme!

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