I don't get it? I freeze damn near everywhere. I wear a long sleeve teeshirt to work but my hands are still frozen even though it might by 90F outside.

Is America so fat that they need the temp to be at 65F to feel comfortable?

Is it like this in other part of the country (other than here in Central PA)? other countries?

I can't imagine how much electric we waste cooling down all the obese blobs (just my speculation)..

 

Its noticeable later in the summer where you have larger temperature swings outside (colder at night, still 90's during the day).

It doesn't help that people change the thermostat setting as they see fit I'm surprised the building manager let it go on as long as it has. I can come in to a cold office in the morning, by noon it is hot af, then it is cold again by the end of the day.

Not that it matters, but I prefer to be cold than hot. :shrugs: It doesn't bother me either way.

 

It's hotter than all get-out here in California. We have "demand responses," so we turn the AC off in the office in the afternoon. My nice comfortable 70-72F? Gone. Sun comes in and hot-boxes (and not in the fun way ) our nice, shiny, all-windowed office building, and I get out the rotisserie and just let the chicken hang near the window - usually ready by dinner time.

My personal favorite was when I worked fast food in high school and it was 107 outside. . . the AC units on top of the building thought they were overheating. Boss told us to keep working. WTG shitty McDonald's manager guy. Only got to 114 inside, ~130 or so near the grill.

NOW, Scot, lest I ignore you (you entertaining MFer), your problem, as best as I can tell, is you live in some place that has this stuff called humidity. I've only recently heard of it, and dipped my toe into it last weekend in Chicago (you should have been there). I got instant swamp shorts, and it was only 75 outside. 75 is a temperature I otherwise enjoy. Hell, I don't get cranky until about 100. So, where people should be comfy at 70 degrees or so, they're trying to avoid swamp butt. I don't blame them. Whether their body has folds or no folds, you shouldn't have to wear Underarmour drawls to get some typing done.

However, what I suspect is actually going on is that everybody was trying to save energy during the Winter, and left the thermostat on at a perfectly reasonable-yet-energy-efficient 65-66 degrees, and nobody knows how to change the auto-set thermostat. Hell, the sucker has a mind of its own, and I've called maintenance 17 times this summer, and those guys are always out at lunch, or on vacation. . .
. . . so don't attribute to cold-smoking arm fat which can be attributed to laziness and an inability to parse ergonomic information.

 

hmmm, I dk... @ work.. ya keep it low so the employees don't Fall a Sleep... being busy warms ya up...

@ restaurants.. if ya keep it cooler, customers tend to eat up an leave quicker, if ya make it warm, they tend to sit an take up table space...

hope that helped....

 

You may have a circulation problem. Do you smoke?