UK branch of a
dot-com. Five years here, with no
heating each winter.
One of the amusing things about working for my company — the EMEA offices of a Silicon Valley .com — is that despite being based in a modern business park with nearly all of the mod-cons, our building’s air conditioning system only works when the weather is warm enough to go without a jacket or jumper. In May we will have been here 5 years and in that time, whenever it’s cold outside the heat exchangers freeze over and it only provides us with cold air.
Nothing the maintenance company does seems to fix it, despite waving a blank cheque under their noses. Something on the system blew up in October, leaving the occupied half of the building with no climate control at all, so this winter has been spent in jumpers and coats, and with fan heaters at our feet.
Technology and service industries, eh? You have to laugh.
