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How do I wear more clothes on my hands, when my job is 100% typing?

by k8si 5y ago

horsawlarway 5y ago
Electric heating pad. Fingerless gloves. Small heater on the desk. Blood flow (stand up and stretch more often, or walk around the office more). Increase core temperature (wear more on the core - it will warm extremities).
- k8si 5y ago
  1) Heating pad on my hands while I'm typing? 2) Have you tried typing with fingerless gloves? 3) Not allowed to have space heaters in our office per "the guy who comes around and yells at you for things periodically" 4) This does not warm up my hands, I can assure you 5) This does not warm up my hands, I can assure you One thing that works great for me at home is, compromising on a temperature with my partner such that we're both physically comfortable throughout the day.
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  - BobbyJo 5y ago
    > One thing that works great for me at home is, compromising on a temperature with my partner such that we're both physically comfortable throughout the day. Finding an intersection of two preferences is much easier than finding one with 30+ preferences. Me and my wife are extreme opposites but manage to keep the house comfortable for both of us thanks to having our own offices. If we had to share one... In a lot of circumstances, an office can shuffle people around and modify the HVAC settings to get most people comfortable, but getting everyone comfortable is rare. I think the fundamental point the parent was trying to make is: given that outliers will exist, which end of the spectrum is preferable? There are many more tools to deal with being too cold than there are with being too hot.
    - k8si 5y ago
      Sure, but in my office and a lot of the others I have worked in, either a) no one was ever too hot, but many people were too cold or b) the HVAC was old/terrible s.t. that everyone was either way too hot or way too cold. My dream is for everyone to just be a little bit miserable together.
  - horsawlarway 5y ago
    1) Forgive the link to amazon... https://www.amazon.com/Madala-Waterproof-Electric-Extended-Protector/dp/B08LV42T3X/ref=asc_df_B08LV42T3X/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=475866878339&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17320778643829074494&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9010930&hvtargid=pla-1064846156286&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/Madala-Waterproof-Electric-Extended-P... 2) yes - I own a pair with an electric heating element. I'm not quite as fast as normal, but they work just fine. 3) This one is fair, but you just need to avoid the heaters that pull a ton of power. Shoot for something around 200 watts (or anything that will run on usb) with an auto-off. A lot of folks will plug in 1500 watt heaters (because they're small), and not realize they're pulling a LOT of power. A standard 20amp/120v circuit in the US can only support a single 1500 watt heater (maxes at ~2400 watts) and 2 will start blowing fuses. 4 & 5) They do work - I promise. Also consider a head covering (beanie/hat or something). --- It's not really a preference/compromise discussion - in most cases office buildings are running their AC/heat to shoot for minimum costs. Add in relatively poor airflow and building designs that have warm/cold pockets and it's literally impossible to make everyone happy.
    - xboxnolifes 5y ago
      > 4 & 5) They do work - I promise. Also consider a head covering (beanie/hat or something). I'm not sure why it seems to be so common for people to be so persistent about increasing core temperature to make extremities comfortable. It's probably good advise for life and death scenarios to keep your extremities workable, but I can assure you that it's not an uncommon occurrence in the winter for my hands to be freezing while im sweltering elsewhere. I usually have the opposite relation with core temp and extremities where covering my feet or hands makes up a much more significant temperature difference while inside. All else the same, socks vs no socks is a significant difference between being comfortable and not based on the temperature.
      - horsawlarway 5y ago
        People are pretty consistent because it's a known physiological reaction. Cold hands and feet are almost always a sign of poor blood flow in extremities, Making the heart beat faster (ex: doing 15 pushups/jumping jacks) helps the most. Decreasing blood vessel constriction helps as well (increasing core temp/ decreasing heat loss). Alcohol has a similar effect, and will increase blood flow to the extremities and increase heartrate - this is why it's so commonly thought to warm you up (note - it's not, it's just increasing blood flow and getting it to your hands/feet more quickly & easily) Unfortunately - no one is identical, reynauds is a condition where folks have an extreme version of the constriction of the blood vessels in their hands/feet in response to cold. You may be farther along that scale.
chomp 5y ago
At a previous job, I used a pair of usb-powered fingerless gloves. They worked quite well, if a bit bulky in the palm area.
xur17 5y ago
I ended up wearing fingerless gloves at my last job. That said, in general I'd really prefer if offices weren't so cold.
enaaem 5y ago
Just warm the rest of your body and your hands will be warm too.

How do I wear more clothes on my hands, when my job is 100% typing?

by k8si 5y ago

How do I wear more clothes on my hands, when my job is 100% typing?

Electric heating pad. Fingerless gloves. Small heater on the desk. Blood flow (stand up and stretch more often, or walk around the office more). Increase core temperature (wear more on the core - it will warm extremities).

k8si 5y ago
1) Heating pad on my hands while I'm typing? 2) Have you tried typing with fingerless gloves? 3) Not allowed to have space heaters in our office per "the guy who comes around and yells at you for things periodically" 4) This does not warm up my hands, I can assure you 5) This does not warm up my hands, I can assure you One thing that works great for me at home is, compromising on a temperature with my partner such that we're both physically comfortable throughout the day.
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- BobbyJo 5y ago
  > One thing that works great for me at home is, compromising on a temperature with my partner such that we're both physically comfortable throughout the day. Finding an intersection of two preferences is much easier than finding one with 30+ preferences. Me and my wife are extreme opposites but manage to keep the house comfortable for both of us thanks to having our own offices. If we had to share one... In a lot of circumstances, an office can shuffle people around and modify the HVAC settings to get most people comfortable, but getting everyone comfortable is rare. I think the fundamental point the parent was trying to make is: given that outliers will exist, which end of the spectrum is preferable? There are many more tools to deal with being too cold than there are with being too hot.
  - k8si 5y ago
    Sure, but in my office and a lot of the others I have worked in, either a) no one was ever too hot, but many people were too cold or b) the HVAC was old/terrible s.t. that everyone was either way too hot or way too cold. My dream is for everyone to just be a little bit miserable together.
- horsawlarway 5y ago
  1) Forgive the link to amazon... https://www.amazon.com/Madala-Waterproof-Electric-Extended-Protector/dp/B08LV42T3X/ref=asc_df_B08LV42T3X/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=475866878339&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17320778643829074494&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9010930&hvtargid=pla-1064846156286&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/Madala-Waterproof-Electric-Extended-P... 2) yes - I own a pair with an electric heating element. I'm not quite as fast as normal, but they work just fine. 3) This one is fair, but you just need to avoid the heaters that pull a ton of power. Shoot for something around 200 watts (or anything that will run on usb) with an auto-off. A lot of folks will plug in 1500 watt heaters (because they're small), and not realize they're pulling a LOT of power. A standard 20amp/120v circuit in the US can only support a single 1500 watt heater (maxes at ~2400 watts) and 2 will start blowing fuses. 4 & 5) They do work - I promise. Also consider a head covering (beanie/hat or something). --- It's not really a preference/compromise discussion - in most cases office buildings are running their AC/heat to shoot for minimum costs. Add in relatively poor airflow and building designs that have warm/cold pockets and it's literally impossible to make everyone happy.
  - xboxnolifes 5y ago
    > 4 & 5) They do work - I promise. Also consider a head covering (beanie/hat or something). I'm not sure why it seems to be so common for people to be so persistent about increasing core temperature to make extremities comfortable. It's probably good advise for life and death scenarios to keep your extremities workable, but I can assure you that it's not an uncommon occurrence in the winter for my hands to be freezing while im sweltering elsewhere. I usually have the opposite relation with core temp and extremities where covering my feet or hands makes up a much more significant temperature difference while inside. All else the same, socks vs no socks is a significant difference between being comfortable and not based on the temperature.
    - horsawlarway 5y ago
      People are pretty consistent because it's a known physiological reaction. Cold hands and feet are almost always a sign of poor blood flow in extremities, Making the heart beat faster (ex: doing 15 pushups/jumping jacks) helps the most. Decreasing blood vessel constriction helps as well (increasing core temp/ decreasing heat loss). Alcohol has a similar effect, and will increase blood flow to the extremities and increase heartrate - this is why it's so commonly thought to warm you up (note - it's not, it's just increasing blood flow and getting it to your hands/feet more quickly & easily) Unfortunately - no one is identical, reynauds is a condition where folks have an extreme version of the constriction of the blood vessels in their hands/feet in response to cold. You may be farther along that scale.

chomp 5y ago

At a previous job, I used a pair of usb-powered fingerless gloves. They worked quite well, if a bit bulky in the palm area.

xur17 5y ago

I ended up wearing fingerless gloves at my last job. That said, in general I'd really prefer if offices weren't so cold.

enaaem 5y ago

Just warm the rest of your body and your hands will be warm too.