Summer Sizzling Heat

Nurses General Nursing

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Specializes in Telemetry, Med-Surg, ED, Psych.

Every summer this happens on my unit.

I live in the Southern California desert area - in the summer it get VERY hot here (July/August daytime temps are normally 100). I work with many people who like the unit at 75 degrees. I AM SORRY - 75 is too hot to work in and be running all over creation for 12 hours.

They complain that they are cold - think about that for a minute. It is 105 outside and they bring winter coats to work because they are "cold". Add like clockwork, these same people raise the thermostat up to 80 - 80 in the summer is bull.

"We need to go green -- save the environment - Oh PLEASE PEOPLE GET A LIFE.

START WORKING - LOG OFF FACEBOOK, GET OFF YOUR BUTT, AND HAUL IT - Then tell me your still cold!

Frankly, I like it on the cooler side around 70.

1 - I am a large guy and I would rather be cool and clean than sweaty and funky (visual - drip drip - you see my point!).

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Specializes in Hospice, ER.

It's been in the 90's & above here in NJ w/about 100% humidity. And yet I hear the same complaints from my co-workers. It is just too hot to crank up the thermostadt, but if all I was doing was sitting around, cruising the internet, texting, and socializing, I guess I would be cold too! Boo hoo go get a warm blanket and leave the thermostadt alone!!!

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I live in the south and it has been a hot summer here.

I frequently face the arctic blast of A/C all the time.

I am a skinny chick who feels cold easily. The thermostat is controlled mostly by a secretary who has hot flashes.

I simply wear an undershirt and bring a sweater.

No worries, right?

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I can not tolerate heat because of a previous heat injury so I can feel your exasperation. What may be comfortable for someone else will most likely be very uncomfortable for me, yet I always have to give in and suffer. Then somebody wonders why I move on (if it is a work place).

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Oh my. I know all about that. We've had the temperature battle at just about every single job I've had, regardless of what kind.

I was working in a manufacturing plant and this was a daily battle. We are having a meeting and when the complaints began, the supervisor (who was always sweating) told that bunch of old bitties that their a$$es weren't working hard enough if they were cold!

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If a person spends most of his/her time sitting down of course they are going to be cold. When you move from one place to another and you find work to do you are not going to be cold anymore. Even when it snows outside and it really is cold , when you work and move a lot you won't feel as cold.

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If a person spends most of his/her time sitting down of course they are going to be cold. When you move from one place to another and you find work to do you are not going to be cold anymore. Even when it snows outside and it really is cold , when you work and move a lot you won't feel as cold.

I figured this fact out many years ago when I worked night shift in a climate controlled computer center.

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Something I have observed over the years is the "damsel in distress" phenomenon. I've worked with women who would constantly complain (very dramatically) about how cold they were to any man who would listen.

I guess freezing is much sexier than sweating like a hog...

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Something I have observed over the years is the "damsel in distress" phenomenon. I've worked with women who would constantly complain (very dramatically) about how cold they were to any man who would listen.

I guess freezing is much sexier than sweating like a hog...

Maybe they were waiting for the guy to flirt back with "I can help you warm up" hahahaha. :)

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Maybe they were waiting for the guy to flirt back with "I can help you warm up" hahahaha. :)

Oh yeah! Some of them? Definitely.

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Specializes in Nursing Education, CVICU, Float Pool.

Can you say Heat Stroke waiting to happen. I like it cooler myself. Matter a fact when the heck will fall and winter come and relieve us of this ridiculously humid and hot weather we're having in NC?

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Set the thermostat to 72 degrees. Politely tell anyone who is cold to please put on a sweater, otherwise you will be forced to disrobe. If you look anything like me, that would not be a pretty picture! :eek::eek:

But seriously, just put on a sweater if you are too cold!

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