The office Christmas party is always held on the last Sunday of the month in January… Most of the time, the party will get started before the end of the morning, the correct start time of the party is around 7 p.m.
and all of our friends are invited as well; I had a couple of jobs to finish in the office and I did not join in the party until it had already begun! When I got there, almost everyone was hanging around looking quite annoyed.
I hastily realized the issue was the heater. There was no heating downstairs in the split room where the office Christmas party was being held! Some of my coworkers were even shivering. I decided to call the maintenance staff contractor to get some help, but they were already gone for the morning, although I told him all of us were having a party and needed some extra help. The girl agreed to come back to the office to look at the heating situation. It did not take long to realize the cause. The contractor recently switched over to programmable temperature controls and it was set to turn the heat off at precisely 6:30. The heating was shut off at that time and it had to be manually changed from the control room if all of us planned to override the code, the program and the system… Luckily, the maintenance staff contractor did not have any issue manually overriding the system so the gas furnace would come on. She even provided myself and others with the key to the control room so I could turn off the thermostat when I left near the end of the night.