In our office, we have a little bit of an issue with heat. The office is not ventilated correctly and one side of the branch has large vents while the other side has small vents. Unfortunately the side with the large vents is NOT the side I am on.
It has really always been an issue for me, but now that I am pregnant the heat really bothers me. And when I say heat...I mean it has gotten up to 78 degrees in our office! I cant deal with that type of heat while I am working. Just yesterday I had to walk away from my station for almost 30 min because I was to hot and couldn't do anything but try not to lose my lunch all over my desk.
Now several weeks ago I sent our HR department an email asking about dress code and if there were any exceptions for being pregnant. I told her the reason I was asking was because it is always hot in our office and it is making me physically sick. I wanted to be able to do something about it without making the other people in our office cold. I also wanted to be pro-active about it considering I will be 20 something weeks at the start of August while feeling and looking like I am almost 30 weeks. A before sending the HR department the original email, I was also told that I can't have a fan at my station.
Today, the HR lady sent me an email to check up on me. See how I was doing and if the temperature issue ever got solved. My response was something about it being at 75 currently but I was just getting back from lunch so it didn't bother me yet. And I also told her that yesterday it was 77 and I had to walk away from my station and go to the break room to try to cool off. She must have sent some email to my boss about it because he stormed out of his office, told me never to go to HR about the heat, and turned the AC on.
Then this evening after we closed...he yelled at me again for it. I told him 75 was WAY TO HOT and it was making me sick. But that I didn't go to HR about the heat, that she contacted me. He also told me it was because of the sun...I called his BS and told him it doesn't matter. No matter what it is doing outside it should never be that hot in a work environment.
OOOOOOOH he makes me mad! Seriously? Why would someone think it was ok to keep the temp up so high that it makes an employee sick? How does one even justify that?
Oh well, tomorrow I have a doctors appointment and I will be getting a note that says the temp can't be above, oh I don't know 72. The temperature will have to be kept lower. At first I didn't want to make the other people in the office cold, hence the reason I asked about dress code, but now I don't care. They can put on a sweater. I can't take clothes off. I do like Lauren's idea from facebook...threaten to work in a swimsuit and bring in a kiddie pool. What else is a girl to do???
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