We are happy that the weather has been warming up lately because we have been wanting to take a trip to the beach.
And now would be the ideal time to do so before the Summer crowds take over. Summer is our number one time of year and though it’s not without some challenges, we would rather deal with the heat than the cold. Except for some situations, and this is one of them. The other day, the cooling system broke down inside the building where we work. And to say that inside the building was hot would be an understatement. It was unbearable, and it didn’t help that the temperature was 89 degrees outside. To be honest, we would’ve been better off resting outside than baking inside the hot building. Initially, when the cooling system broke down, we thought that our bosses would’ve allowed us to take the rest of the morning off, instead, they had the service manager bring fans into the office for us. While fans can supply some relief from the heat, they do not replace air conditioning. And the fans easily made the office space even more uncomfortable because all they did was to circulate the sizzling air throughout the room. It’s in times like those that put things into perspective for us. We can be outside all morning basking in the sunlight and the heat for hours at a time, but we can’t work inside a hot building. If we have to work on a daily basis, the least that the bosses can do is to guarantee that they supply comfortable working conditions and that includes working air conditioning.