I don’t think I’d like the temperature setting as much if I could really change it myself, but there’s something so frustrating about not having any control at all.
Not having control over the thermostat makes the temperature of the room guess so much worse, however at work, there is a single thermostat that controls the space that I toil in with multiple other people, and don’t get me wrong, the space is amazing and it’s comfortable for all of us to be working together under a single roof. There are also a ton of other things that are available to us throughout the day that make where I toil fantastic. For example, there’s an unlimited pop bar with a barista 24/7 that’s there to keep all the people caffeinated and productive. The only thing I don’t love about our office space is the thermostat settings. There are two people in the entire building who are able to change the temperature and they rarely do. In fact, I think the only time they touch the thermostat settings are in the Springtime and the fall when they have to make the manual switch between the a/c and oil furnace. I don’t think I’d like the temperature setting as much if I could really change it myself, but there’s something so frustrating about not having any control at all. The temperature setting is something that all the people in the office is consistently complaining about and I’ve come to realize that it’s because there’s nothing else to complain about. If all of us could change the temperature, I think most of us would end up changing it to the same or a similar temperature anyway. It’s the same concept of wanting what you can’t have.