I found out that you can’t really work that well if you’re in a freezing cold office environment.
- This was the story of my life for a long time when the office that I was working in had something called icebox syndrome.
All of the other people that I was working with thought that the office temperature felt fine. The main thermostat for the building was usually set at 71 degrees, which seems to be a reasonable temperature setting for the climate that we were living in. However, in my office, which was in one of the corners of the building, the A/C seemed to run constantly and I was always freezing. Even in the middle of the summer, I would have to run a little space heater underneath my desk to keep my hands and feet from turning into ice cubes! I finally had the building manager call our commercial HVAC company. The HVAC technician who explained icebox syndrome to me said that it’s when one area or room of a house or building stays freezing cold all the time when all of the other rooms feel just fine. The HVAC technician, once he had inspected my office and checked the temperature in all of the other offices in the building, assured me that the HVAC system in my office was indeed suffering from icebox syndrome. I laughed and told him that not only was the HVAC system suffering, but I was suffering from it too! He was able to find the source of the problem in one of the ventilation ducts and he fixed it right away.