Friend working in shop - heating broken and it was freezing

kelpie35

How about a hot water bottle resting on her knee or put against the back of the chair.

ohreally

kelpie35 wrote: »

How about a hot water bottle resting on her knee or put against the back of the chair.

Could be a concern if it bursts and spills onto socket outlets, computer etc etc.

Say_who?

Your friend has my sympathy. I work in a large store and part of the heating was broken for a couple of years, in freezing temperatures it was truly miserable. Thermals, thermals, thermals, especially the socks! Surprisingly it finally got mended after a visit from some high mucky mucks on a cold day.

ValHaller

ohreally wrote: »

Could be a concern if it bursts and spills onto socket outlets, computer etc etc.

Or on to a scarf which is then blown onto some food by the blast from a passing meteorite.

snowcat75

I find this thread laughable, I have spent all my working life self employed, Conditions are something you get on with or starve, about 10 years ago I was a standby welder for a Baltic shipping company. Vesals damaged at sea would often need repairs these would very often have to preformed within a few hours of turnaround day or night, I can remember one particular Sunday working early evening in January at -2 with a wind chill of at least 10C bellow that. In those days I could often pull a 90hr week.

Com'on Man up, there's plenty of us slopping around in the cold the wet, the muddy, smelly, dirty.... with no one to winge too.

sulphate

I don't think the argument of "well other people have it worse" is valid here. Personally I know I wouldn't cope well with working on a outside in freezing temperatures so I would choose a shop job over that as I expect the shop to be heated effectively. Many of those working outdoors are in active jobs and can't be compared to sitting around at the tills.

Is the heating being fixed?

ValHaller

snowcat75 wrote: »

I find this thread laughable, I have spent all my working life self employed, Conditions are something you get on with or starve, about 10 years ago I was a standby welder for a Baltic shipping company. Vesals damaged at sea would often need repairs these would very often have to preformed within a few hours of turnaround day or night, I can remember one particular Sunday working early evening in January at -2 with a wind chill of at least 10C bellow that. In those days I could often pull a 90hr week.

Com'on Man up, there's plenty of us slopping around in the cold the wet, the muddy, smelly, dirty.... with no one to winge too.

Point well and truly missed. OP's friend is doing the equivalent - working away in cold conditions and in some respects if the job is stood at a till rather than moving around, the cold is just as unpleasant as yours was. This thread is not about the injury of working in the cold, it is about the insult of the idiot manager telling people off for wearing scarves.

If anyone was whinging it was the idiot manager, not the employees who adapted to the conditions by putting on scarves and carried on .

The real comparison is what would a welder such as yourself working under such conditions have done had an idiot manager told you not to wear something which was keeping you warm.

snowcat75

ValHaller wrote: »

The real comparison is what would a welder such as yourself working under such conditions have done had an idiot manager told you not to wear something which was keeping you warm.

Probably in the same way as iv dealt with, Wearing a buoyancy aid and land yard, which made it impossible to access a small opening, Wearing Cross Rail Regulation Hi viz over trousers which were inflammable, Having to swap Hi viz vests continually because they were becoming soiled too quickly........ The list could go on....

One manager and a scarf child's play, a wrath of company's with whole HSE departments watching your every move, now that's irritating.

ValHaller

snowcat75 wrote: »

Probably in the same way as iv dealt with, Wearing a buoyancy aid and land yard, which made it impossible to access a small opening, Wearing Cross Rail Regulation Hi viz over trousers which were inflammable, Having to swap Hi viz vests continually because they were becoming soiled too quickly........ The list could go on....

One manager and a scarf child's play, a wrath of company's with whole HSE departments watching your every move, now that's irritating.

I don't think you are a real welder, because if I were a welder and an idiot manager told me not to wear whatever was keeping me warm for the 2 hour turn around job in freezing conditions, that manager would probably find himself welded to the job in his underpants with his warm clothing just out of reach for a few hours.

kazwookie

Buy some thick tights/ stockings/ long johns / leggings, thick socks, and those self warming hand gel hand thingys.