Everyone was standing around looking miserable

The office Christmas party is held on the first Friday of the month in December.

Most of the time, the party gets started before the end of the day.

The official start time of the party is 7 p.m. and all of our spouses are invited as well. I had a couple of jobs to finish in my office and I didn’t join the party until it had already begun. When I got there, everyone was standing around looking totally miserable. I quickly realized the issue was the heater. There was no heat downstairs in the break room where the office Christmas party was being held. Some of my co-workers were shivering. I decided to call the maintenance staff technician to get some help. He was already gone for the day, but I told him we were having a party and needed some help. The guy agreed to come back to the office to look at the heating situation. It didn’t take long to realize the issue. The company recently switched over to a programmable temperature control system and it was set to turn the heat off at precisely 6:30. The heat was shut off at that time and it had to be manually changed from the control room if we planned to override the program and system. Luckily, the maintenance staff technician didn’t have any problem manually overriding the system so the furnace would come on. He even gave me the key to the control room so I could turn off the thermostat when I left at the end of the night.

 

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