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Posted: 9/2/2015 9:39:25 PM EDT

We're definitely in the dog days of summer now. Not so much hot but humid and uncomfortable. My workplace is not air conditioned and temps have been in the high 80s to low 90s all week but feels warmer because sweat isn't working like it should. Tempers are short. How is it for you? Also, what level of education do you have? Poll offers multiple choices.

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:40:38 PM EDT

[#1]

Lol, I work in a steel foundry, no.

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:41:57 PM EDT

[#2]

We have 74 ton of AC in an 80x50 room

( 20 is backup, but 54 of it runs near continuous to keep the room at 67deg )

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:42:10 PM EDT

[#3]

The paper mill mocks your 90 degree temperatures.

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:42:15 PM EDT

[#4]

Offices are, some areas of the production floor are.

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:43:34 PM EDT

[#5]

Office worker here. Our office is supposed to be, but HVAC is too small/old and the walls and ceiling aren't insulated. It is miserable in the summer.

ETA. Poll is confusing as fuck. What does having a degree or not have to do with having your work air conditioned? Not seeing the correlation.

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:44:36 PM EDT

[#6]

Masters and my office is freezing. I have a jacket at my desk it's so cold

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:46:12 PM EDT

[#7]

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Office worker here. Our office is supposed to be, but HVAC is too small/old and the walls and ceiling aren't insulated. It is miserable in the summer.

ETA. Poll is confusing as fuck. What does having a degree or not have to do with having your work air conditioned? Not seeing the correlation.

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There is obviously a direct correlation with advanced degrees and how temperate ones work environment is. Just please ignore the call center workers they will fuck up the whole curve.

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:46:49 PM EDT

[#8]

I struggled to get through through highschool. I now do R&D in a N.A.S.A. facility that is comfortable year round.

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:48:28 PM EDT

[#9]

Yes, I've been a carpet dweller my entire life.

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:49:33 PM EDT

[#10]

Engineer at GM here. Of course our cube farm is air conditioned!

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:50:09 PM EDT

[#11]

The office area where I work is air conditioned. The shop floor is not. I have a BS.

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:50:37 PM EDT

[#12]

Behind the wheel of my Peterbilt 379. Of course!

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:50:42 PM EDT

[#13]

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Office worker here. Our office is supposed to be, but HVAC is too small/old and the walls and ceiling aren't insulated. It is miserable in the summer.

ETA. Poll is confusing as fuck. What does having a degree or not have to do with having your work air conditioned? Not seeing the correlation.

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It's not "confusing" so much as useless. I was just curious to see if more education meant a more comfortable work place but I asked the wrong questions.

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:51:09 PM EDT

[#14]

Shop no
Office/ desk yes
Coal plant in Mississippi Alabama North Carolina Virginia Georgia no
7 th floor below the bull nose of a foster wheeler 250 megawatt boiler no
Work truck yes
Hotel room yes

Associates in EE and 35 yrs in the profession.

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:52:09 PM EDT

[#15]

NO

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:52:24 PM EDT

[#16]

CNC machines routinely run the shop up to 90-95 degrees.

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:52:35 PM EDT

[#17]

My work truch has A/C.

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:52:55 PM EDT

[#18]

I work in a call center. Yes.

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:53:04 PM EDT

[#19]

I work in the operating room of a large hospital

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:53:10 PM EDT

[#20]

Yes, yes it is:

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:53:26 PM EDT

[#21]

I work in a printing plant - usually 100% air conditioned but the pressroom is not (which makes running the press a fucking nightmare). Luckily for me, I work in the digital prepress which has air conditioning (else our servers melt).

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:55:19 PM EDT

[#22]

I'm in IT, there are times when i need a jacket in my office.

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:55:55 PM EDT

[#23]

Stations and transmitter sites are tower sites are not.

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:58:23 PM EDT

[#24]

Yes and the women keep it so cold I wear a jacket (now) in the Texas Heat. But I'm not complaining. I moved out of the sweat shop busting down Frac Valves into the office light years ago and never looked back.

Posted: 9/2/2015 9:59:39 PM EDT

[#25]

I am on the shop floor, no AC. Its not bad until after 10AM. Then if you don't have a fan moving the air around you it really sucks. Luckily I have a fan blowing on my desk.

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:00:59 PM EDT

[#26]

Yep, I don't think clients would want to sweat their ass off while we talk

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:01:59 PM EDT

[#27]

I own a small motorcycle shop and hate high humidity. Large roof unit keeps me cool and dry all summer....Until I have to take a test ride in the sweltering heat that is.

Trade school.

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:02:42 PM EDT

[#28]

Part of the year it is. Temp is set way too low however.

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:04:54 PM EDT

[#29]

My office is. The production floor where I spend half my day is not. So yes and no

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:05:01 PM EDT

[#30]

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CNC machines routinely run the shop up to 90-95 degrees.

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Years ago I worked at a machine shop that was air conditioned. I was told it was needed to keep the machines producing in tolerance. Maybe not?

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:05:04 PM EDT

[#31]

Only in the winter. Iron worker, outside year round in the NE.

ETA UNION THUG

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:06:19 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
We're definitely in the dog days of summer now. Not so much hot but humid and uncomfortable. My workplace is not air conditioned and temps have been in the high 80s to low 90s all week but feels warmer because sweat isn't working like it should. Tempers are short. How is it for you? Also, what level of education do you have? Poll offers multiple choices.

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Nope, 2 bachelors. Neither my last gym or this gym are A/C'd...it fuckin sucks.

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:06:25 PM EDT

[#33]

I am the HVAC guy.

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:08:18 PM EDT

[#34]

I work for the Air Force, need I say more....

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:10:04 PM EDT

[#35]

The station, apparatus, and back of the ambulance are air conditioned. Outside is not, and inside a house fire is definitely not!

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:10:07 PM EDT

[#36]

My shop is. My customers sites, no.

Double up on the deodorant on install days.

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:10:23 PM EDT

[#37]

I work out doors.

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:10:26 PM EDT

[#38]

yes

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:11:12 PM EDT

[#39]

AC on patrol car set on one click short of max from 0700 until 1500. April till November.

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:15:09 PM EDT

[#40]

I work outside on a lake in the mountains. I have lots of clothing for all occasions.
I'd blow my brains out before I'd work inside... Or in the city.

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:15:35 PM EDT

[#41]

Hard to air condition a non-domed football stadium and practice field.

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:18:59 PM EDT

[#42]

It depends, the deer handling facility central heat and a/c, not for the workers but for the deer, its only on when we work deer maybe 15 days out of the year and usually at night or on a 70 degree day. The kitchen we mix bottles for fawn feeding has a window unit and is on during the summer but it doesn't take long to make bottles for 30 fawns. The rest of the time I am usually on a Polaris in the 100 degree South Texas heat filling feeders, fixing water leaks, cut fences and almost never in the shade. I do this because I love it and I do have some college education.

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:20:35 PM EDT

[#43]

Yes, the A/C went out 2 years ago in the middle of the day, my classroom got up to 85 degrees, didn't open a window since it had just rained and it was humid as hell. I stopped teaching, rolled up my sleeves and put on a movie.

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:22:06 PM EDT

[#44]

Yes but the girls turn it off cause it's "cold" at 74 degs. Lawyers...

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:23:24 PM EDT

[#45]

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I am the HVAC guy.

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Yeah, but it's always broke or shut off when we're there.

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:26:22 PM EDT

[#46]

I got an AC unit in my classroom I can turn on and off when I want. Everyone else is jealous because they don't have one in their room. I like to keep it extra cool because it keeps the kids from falling asleep

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:27:03 PM EDT

[#47]

Once it's off the ground. Other than that, well, not really.

TC

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:27:48 PM EDT

[#48]

air conditioned AND pressurized...

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:29:53 PM EDT

[#49]

Yes, but it's fucked up.

The office where me and my co-worker work does not have a return duct. The air gets sucked up through the suspended ceiling.

Right at the output duct, it measures 68F, but move one foot in any direction and it drops to 78F.

We had to chip in and get a fan, it helps a little.

Posted: 9/2/2015 10:30:44 PM EDT

[#50]

Well I've got inside and outside. So yes and no.

Bachelors and using it

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