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Americans don’t think this is normal, but rather a nuisance that we have to put up with for some unknown reason. The building engineers responsible for maintain
by weberc2 7y ago
Americans don’t think this is normal, but rather a nuisance that we have to put up with for some unknown reason. The building engineers responsible for maintaining the temperature of large office buildings presumably haven’t recalibrated their best practices from the days when offices were largely populated by obese men in suits.
- porknubbins 7y agoThis is strange but where I grew up in the hot humid south there was almost a subconscious association between cold AC and modernness, cleanliness, efficiency etc (traits a business would want to project) and inversely between weak AC and cheapness, backwardness, poverty etc. It actually makes sense in a hospital or supermarket but it was quite a relief to break this association and now 75 feels relaxed.
- weberc2 7y agoI could see that but it doesn’t explain why my recently refurbished downtown Yankee office building is a frosty 67F in the height of summer. :P