I had recently given an office job, and I loved it.
The only thing I didn’t like about the new position, was that the temperature in the office was so cold that my fingers ached.
I asked my boss if he would turn up the thermostat and he refused. He said that if it was too warm in the office, you weren’t productive. I tried to tell him I wasn’t productive because my fingers weren’t working well. He said I could bring in a jacket and wear it, but he wasn’t turning up the thermostat. I brought a space heater to work the next day. I had it under my desk to keep my feet warm, and the heat was spreading up to my fingers. When my boss realized I had a space heater, he took it away. He told me I could have the space heater back at the end of the day. I was talking to some of the ladies when I went to lunch, and they laughed. They said that was why he went through so many secretaries. He didn’t believe you needed heat to work. The one girl told me he thought that if you worked hard enough, you would produce your own heat. That afternoon, I knocked on his door and walked in. It was so warm in his office that I wanted to sit down and feel it permeate my body. He told me to never enter his office until I was invited. I asked him if that was rule was because he didn’t want the heat to escape, or he wanted to turn his thermostat down first. When I got to work the next day, the temperature was up to seventy in my work area.