As a part of the campus where I work, it’s often difficult to find out pressing information regarding my employment.
This seems to be an issue across campus, and there’s no great resolution to the problem, since HR is too giant to help everyone and the information they’re allowed to pass out is pretty hit or miss.
As such, I joined the council for academic professionals, in order to hear news faster than everyone else. The only downside is having to sit through a 3 hour meeting every month in which the air conditions are imminently horrible. I guess it’s because my great friend and I meet in an outdated building, however the Heating & A/C system is totally screwed up. It’s either tepid hot, or cold cold, and not related to the outdoor air conditions at all. The air temperature seems totally dysregulated, and the air vents are alarming to my personal comfort, no matter where I sit. In the winter time I feel like it wildly varies between the heating system working at full steam, or no heating taking place at all. It’s drafty, and I switch between being cold cold and swelteringly hot. In the summer, the a/c is severely overwhelming at some points, and then seems to turn off absolutely other times. I cannot figure out if they are constantly toying with the temperature control, or if the Heating & A/C system is really so outdated that it can’t maintain a consistent air temperature. Regardless, it makes for an incredibly long 3 hour meeting when the air quality is wildly fluctuating.