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It's currently ranging between 0°C and about -5°C where I live. Despite this not exactly being t-shirt weather, I have a colleague who constantly cracks open windows in random rooms at work and leaves. She does in the loo, in the office kitchen, in the meeting room, everywhere. She only works half a day, so she doesn't have to suffer the cold herself- she opens the windows, then takes off a few hours later and someone else (often me) then comes into a room where your breath makes little clouds and has to deal with it. And of course, when she comes back next morning, all the rooms will be nice&cozy again and she can restart her little mission to freeze us to our desks.
I have tried to talk to her, of course. Asked her to close the windows she opened after a few minutes, explained to her how unpleasant it is to be afraid that your teeth will chip from chattering while you wait for your tea water to cook. To no avail. Her answer is usually something along "I usually close the windows, of course. If I occasionally forget, then please do me a favour and close it yourself and just turn up the heater a bit".
Since to me this problem isn't worth the hassle to take it to our boss, I just went around closing her damn windows every day, even specifically making rounds for that.
Until this week.
See, her and I usually don't have 1:1 meetings due to our work being pretty different, and any bigger meetings are over video calls in our company. But this week we did have something to talk about and agreed to meet wednesday at 08:30. At meeting time, she came knocking and expected to come into my office, but I share it with a coworker and told her that the coworker needed quiet time and that the meeting room was empty.
At this point you can probably guess that when making my window-closing rounds the day before, I left the meeting room alone. You can also probably guess that I made sure to wear some extra warm clothes to work that day. And you don't even need to guess that I made sure the meeting took longer than necessary (about 15 minutes) and that I was ignoring her signs of growing discomfort while I noticeably dragged my feet.
"Oh no, not necessary to send me an e-mail, just tell me and I'll write it down right now. No, really, writing it down helps me think. Wait, this pen is garbage, I'll get a new one. Didn't they use to have those good black pens just a few months ago? Haven't seen them since, but maybe one of them got forgotten in one of these drawers here.... ah, no, that's a disappointment. Well nevermind, I'll just take one of these. Maybe after our meeting, I'll ask the front office if they have more. Anyway, please continue!"
Thank you!
I hope so, too. We will see next week.
I only have to deal with the cracked windows in shared spaces, like kitchen, loo, meeting room, copy room etc.
Also, not that it really makes a difference, but this is happening in Europe where we don't put up our windows, we crack the upper part by turning the handle upwards and then pulling.
Probably because it's been so long in this drawer in a freezing room!
We don't really use the heat, or very sparingly, so that is the lesser problem.
I think she's just airheaded (pun intended). She is a really friendly and competent person in general, it's just this one thing...
I hope you put out the blow-up palm trees and sit out in an aloha shirt with a cocktail in hand!
Yes, she's exactly that type of person!
We usually don't even turn on the heat. When the windows are closed the majority of the time, it's pretty manageable. And on days where it isn't, I use a hot water bottle when I'm at my desk.
Yes, but due to the Ukraine war and needing to save natural gas, we use the heaters very sparingly. So if it's cold in the office, we don't turn up the heat, we simply freeze our asses off. I even have a hot water bottle in my office as I don't want to waste resources.
I think she just didn't think of it as an actual issue and underestimated the effects on others. This week it was a lot warmer where I live, so no issues with open windows. We will see whether she stops leaving windows overnight when it gets cold again.
Well then you must be very happy that I accomodated her last Wednesday!
We don't have fire sprinkler systems.
I hope that my petty revenge helped her see that she's in the wrong.
We don't have vents. We have something like this: https://cdn0.scrvt.com/fb8496fd305492cbfa1c87030c44a4e8/ad6c7c8f8b7b2949/b9e78a09b2a7/v/27c20276ff8d/heizung_wissen_neue-heizkorper_fotolia-92374037.jpg
Don't take this the wrong way, but you're making a whole lot of assumptions.
First she's probably allergic to her own sweat, then she probably has ADHD.
To be frank, I am not her doctor or her therapist, so I don't really give a fuck about why exactly she freezes 20 people to their desks on regular basis. If she has medical reasons, she should have gone to management and requested accomodations instead of just continuing her behaviour. She kept blowing me off when I talked to her about it, so I made her taste her own medicine. There's not really more about it, at least to me.
She forgets and leaves it open nearly every day? Did you even read my post? This is not a once in a blue moon occurrence,
How will the window being open overnight help that?
Let me get this straight: You think she needs the window in her WORKPLACE stay open overnight while she is HOME?
Please explain to me the physicalities of that.
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Thank you!
I must admit that I can't quite stop cackling.