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@auspice BECAUSE IT'S COLD
In the winter, you set thermostats lower so the HVAC doesn't have to work so hard!
77 is madness.
It's 84 out. I got into work sweating. I don't want to continue to sweat.But I work with coworkers who get cold easy. There's a reason, I suppose, no one has ever tried to take my desk (the vent blows directly on it).
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I set my home thermostat to 66 and get anxiety if anyone raises it. Heating oil ain't cheap.
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I have stripped down to leggings and a sports bra at work (with permission, and a client I knew well), because my treatment room was the one with the main heat vent and one of my office mates came in unusually early and cranked up the heat not realizing it. I had my window open, I was stripped as much as could be, my client was naked with just a sheet (usually folks have sheet and blanket), and we were both drenched in sweat after just a 60 minute Massage. Sooo gross. After that my poor client always grabbed my 7 AM Saturday spot (my other suite mates never were in on weekends and turned off the heat on fridays).
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I just got my boss to check the thtermostat, after three months of complaining.
My department's thermostat, which lives outside my department, was set permanently to 'chill'. The AC was always on. It was on when it was 70 outside, it was on when it was 30 outside. I live with low blood pressure and not a whole lot of body weight. My fingers were visibly cold and I could only get someone to check it just now, because they finally felt it.
Really, guys, you can trust your employees more. You can. Really.
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The other day, a coworker walked in and asked 'Are you guys hot or cold?'
I was in the midst of eating my lunch and before I could say 'Yes, I'm so warm' everyone else agreed that they were, indeed, cold (and to my dismay, turned off the AC and turned on the heat).I am still so very acclimated to the PNW and my body is assuring me that it should not be 80 degrees right now.
It's very strange because one of my fibro symptoms is that I generally get cold very easily. Instead, I am currently on the other side of the coin in being the person who is always warm.
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.....I live in the Northeast. It's 42* right now and I don't have the heat on. In fact, I had the windows cracked -- just a little -- when it was 50* and sunny all day. My car windows while driving in to work today, too.
An office set to 84* sounds like a circle of hell to me.
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.....I live in the Northeast. It's 42* right now and I don't have the heat on. In fact, I had the windows cracked -- just a little -- when it was 50* and sunny all day. My car windows while driving in to work today, too.
An office set to 84* sounds like a circle of hell to me.
I'm still wearing shorts and flippie floppies at 44°. I feel like I understand you a little more.
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The office thermostat was set to 78' today. I promptly turned it down to 72'.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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The humor of receiving an especially nasty paper cut within the first few pages of a book titled The Blade Itself isn't lost on me.
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Deadline for the final of my script for this hell class is tomorrow at 10:59p local time.
Wait all week for the feedback from my asshole professor.
Get grade for last week's script.'I provided extensive story and formatting notes during our telephone story conference; however, a graded copy of the "3rd Story Segment" has been uploaded for your records.'
Nothing was attached/uploaded.
We did not have a phone conference.COMMENCE RAGE.
I sent a scathing email in which I also pointed out that I am being given roughly 30 hours to complete this goddamn assignment at this point.
His reply?
'Recheck the platform.'
Not even a fucking apology.
I hate this man so much.
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I'm trying to piece together all this Fahrenheit stuff... and it's needlessly difficult.
All y'all should just go metric. It's more precise, logical, and every other country in the world save three have done it without the sky falling on their heads.
C'mon man...
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@dontpanda Usually I'm all aboard the METRIC TRAIN as far as thinking the US should convert, but honest to god, Fahrenheit is one that I cling to a bit. Because its standard is what feels hot to a HUMAN. 0 is REALLY COLD and 100 is REALLY HOT and that's the scale. WHO CARES ABOUT WHEN WATER FREEZES OR BOILS WHEN I'M TALKING ABOUT WHETHER I NEED A JACKET. FU WATER.
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@dontpanda Usually I'm all aboard the METRIC TRAIN as far as thinking the US should convert, but honest to god, Fahrenheit is one that I cling to a bit. Because its standard is what feels hot to a HUMAN. 0 is REALLY COLD and 100 is REALLY HOT and that's the scale. WHO CARES ABOUT WHEN WATER FREEZES OR BOILS WHEN I'M TALKING ABOUT WHETHER I NEED A JACKET. FU WATER.
Plus, I mean, look at the UK. Some Brits will use Fahrenheit to 'properly represent how hot it is in the summer.'
(I learned this while watching Black Books a couple years ago.)
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@dontpanda said in RL Anger:
I'm trying to piece together all this Fahrenheit stuff... and it's needlessly difficult.
All y'all should just go metric. It's more precise, logical, and every other country in the world save three have done it without the sky falling on their heads.
Sorry but Fahrenheit is much more precise. As an example, let's take the range of 0 to 50 in Celsius. That's a 50 degree spread. Fahrenheit has about a 90 degree spread and so is much better able to measure the exact temperature of something without needing to resort to decimals. And if you want to use decimals, then it becomes even more accurate.
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In response to opioid epidemic, some doctors promoting 'pain acceptance'
My response to this? FUCK THAT NOISE.
Story time: 2003, I fell down some stairs. Suffered an AC joint separation in my shoulder. By 2005, I had a v. limited range of motion, couldn't lift more than 5 pounds. I'd sometimes have to pull over on my commute home from work because the pain would be blinding.
A doctor told me, point blank: 'I don't do anything for chronic pain.'
This is what, end of 2007, caused me to move form Ohio to SC. I knew I needed something. I couldn't even work full time anymore because the pain would be so bad some days. I'd gone through two cycles of physical therapy (with the therapist telling the doctor that it was beyond PT). But x-rays, MRIs, showed nothing.
The ortho in SC finally went: 'I hate doing exploratory surgery, but there's clearly something wrong here.'
Turns out the injury in 2003 (it was 2008 by this point) had left me with a shoulder socket full of bone spurs. If that doctor in 2005 hadn't brushed me off with a 'I don't do anything for chronic pain,' I might not have suffered for years.
...and here we have a growing trend of doctors wanting to do just this to their patients.
Fuck. That. Noise.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@auspice ...well, then. I am not the kind of person who wishes the horrible experience someone is being callous about on the person being callous, but damn, that one tempts me to be.
I pretty much lost more or less everything to a car accident I was in years ago -- there was no way I could do the job I was in college for at the time, etc. even though I fought that for years, only to end up stuck in bed and unable to walk for the better part of a month for the fighting it. I still have pretty exhausting levels of pain from the damage done on a daily basis over 20 years later.
I don't take anything for it, because, really, I did actually 'get used to it'. Getting used to it meant giving up the career I was training for, most of the things I wanted to actually do with my life, and most of the things I wanted to have in my life. At the time, it was because of the dreaded 'no insurance'; now, it's too late for anything to be done about it, pretty much.
So, really, fuck those doctors. Perhaps they should imagine what would have happened to them if someone slammed their surgery hand in a car door in the middle of their residency, and how they'd feel about that. Somehow, I doubt they'd be so bold as to talk like that.
And, damn. I say this as someone who had to take opioids earlier in the year and hated every second of it, because they have nasty side effects for me that are less pleasant than the pain itself most of the time.
'Live with it' isn't the answer. Better, less dangerous medication should be on the agenda, though, for real. ('cause y'know I would kinda like there to be something out there I can take some day without becoming an insomniac hybrid of a hormonal honeybadger and a rabid wolverine, yeesh.)
Oh fucking well.
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@surreality said in RL Anger:
'Live with it' isn't the answer. Better, less dangerous medication should be on the agenda, though, for real.
How about affordable care?
"Pain acceptance" isn't a new movement. It's been around since -- well, forever. Doctors regularly inform patients as to the chances of full recovery, the chances of return to normal, and so on. These opinions form the basis of future damages, and other fun things I get to haggle over in my line of work.
Where I'm originally from, it is common to get a second or third opinion. Why? Because health care is more readily-available and cheaper. Exploratory surgery and searches are also more affordable, and more available. Hell, health care in general is better and more exploratory when providers and patients don't have to worry about some asshole insurance adjuster making some nigh arbitrary decision as to whether a procedure is covered or not.
There are limits to what medical science can do. And there are limits to what insurance will pay for. You can remove one of these problems with enough common sense and political will.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@ganymede Oh, believe me, I couldn't agree with you more on that front.
I had insurance for, uhm... 5 days before I was in the ER and they were pretty sure I was gonna bite it this year? Yeah.
We had set it up months earlier paperwork side, but the husband's work only kicks in policies on the 1st of the year, so we were really fucking lucky. I do not even want to think about what would have happened otherwise. (I'd be dead, we'd be completely bankrupt for the rest of our lives, or both.)Absolutely preaching to the choir on that one.
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e US should convert, but honest to god, Fahrenheit is one that I cling to a bit. Because its standard is what feels hot to a HUMAN. 0 is REALLY COLD and 100 is REALLY HOT and that's the scale. WHO CARES ABOUT WHEN WATER FREEZES OR BOILS WHEN I'M TALKING ABOUT WH
This made me remember how, as a small child in the US during the very early 80's, they taught us the metric system in school and told us we needed to know it because we (referring to the entire country) were supposed to be switching over to it. After that year, I never heard another word about switching, although they did continue to teach us both systems for the remaining years that I was in school. I have no idea what happened but it does seem like we were going to make the switch at one point.
