Who controls the HVAC at work?

I work outdoors you insensitive clod.

I think that would classify as "immutable powers" or possibly "laws of physics and bad engineering".

They spent a bunch of money to "fix" the HVAC in our office. It was so cold I would wear two shirts to work and sometimes a jacket (i sit right below the vent), and fingerless gloves while typing just so my hands wouldn't go numb.

So what did our overly-controlling, micro-managing asshat of a business manager do? she had the thermometer for the new system installed in the heart of the office (hers), along with the control, so no one can ever get at it except her. I wear smartwool and a base layer to work now, as well as a dress shirt, plus a jacket sometimes. In southern california summer.

The girl down the hall even has a space heater now.

Ostensibly, the temperature in my (University staff, large, single-person) office is controlled by the thermostat in the classroom next door. (Problem #1, obviously.) This means that there have been a number of times where someone in that room (no idea whether it was a student or professor; don't really care) has cranked the temperature one way or the other. Usually down.

However, the aforementioned thermostat is also a bit wonky. I frequently go in there, feeling a little cold, to turn it up, and find that while it's set to about 70, it's reading a temperature of 65 and blowing cold air. Turning it up to 72 will cause it to cheerfully start blowing hot air for a while. (I have also gone in to lower it, and found that while it's set to 72, it's reading 76 or so. Go figure.)

None of this can hold a candle to what I experienced when a teenager teaching myself programming one summer on a computer in my father's lab at the college he teaches at. One of the several heater units in that room was on, and I asked if we could turn it off. Apparently, not only could we not turn it off, but the HVAC for that building was, at that time, managed by a company in a city an hour's drive away. OK, so, call the company, let them know that the heater is on in 80 degree weather.

Nope. "Our computer system shows that heater as off." "Well, I'm right next to it, and I can tell you it's on. It's blowing hot air. The one next to it isn't." "No, sir; our system shows it as off, therefore, it is off."

And that was pretty much the end of it.

(Fortunately, that section of the building was demolished a decade later, and replaced with one that wasn't a) designed in the '70s, and b) intended to be temporary.)

Dan Aris.

I have filed so many ticket. But nothing ever gets fixed. And the help desk never answers.

You could put a tinfoil hat on the thermostat to reflect the sun's rays. It will also prevent interference by the NSA!

Outdoors? I've heard of such place, from my mother, who goes out every day to hunt food in the savage wilds and brings it to the basement door where I collect it from.