Italian kitty! He longs for the pasta! Lol

An almost empty food dish… My cat starts meowing when there’s like 1/4 of the food still in the dish lol

It’s a failure of terms used in US politics. When we say “left” and “right” we pretty much exclusively are talking about their position in respect to one another as opposed to the actual policies the parties hold.

Republicans are much more “conservative” (right wing) than Democrats (liberals) are, so the Republicans are the right and the Democrats become the “left” as they aren’t as conservative and therefore they are “to the left” of Republicans.

If you were to look at global definitions as to what it means to be a left wing party, Democrats really don’t fit there.

I definitely feel for you guys in Europe, a lot of tough arguments to be had with employers coming up… If I understand correctly AC isn’t that common because it historically hasn’t been as necessary as it has been in the US. The future unfortunately is looking to make it necessary pretty much everywhere :(

While generally true, I think “the media” does what I mentioned in order to “manufacture consent” in cases like this. They want to create the image of what is “real” and what “people you should believe” think. God forbid you should think for yourself and agree with a spooky spooky socialist, no no we need to make you afraid of him! We need you to believe that only “freeloaders” vote for him and “real taxpayers” will be hurt by him!

Nope lol unless you own a yacht you’re more than likely not looking for these things

“The media” love nothing more than to find the absolute most disgusting scum in our country and interview them for their opinions…

Oh, yeah I’m on record for that for sure. I’m part of the health and safety team so every month each summer I bring up the heat lol

It’s a small enough company that decisions that involve any expensive expansions go to the owner. He’s already denied a request to set up a few fans near the ceiling to get airflow from one side of the building out to the other so anything like an actual a/c are out of the question.

The general response is “we told you it gets bad in the summer, if you don’t like it there are plenty of doors to walk out of.”

Even if I shared the name “we” already don’t buy from them, we make stuff for rich people and some military applications. It’s a weird combination lol no weapons thankfully.

I’m in NY and that’s the language I was able to find in the states laws regarding factory conditions, but it’s not really regulated since their only stated “metric” is a completely vague, subjective amount: “reasonable.”

Nowhere in the language do they define reasonable, and when I reached out to my “representative” asking for clarification they never responded, naturally lol

Lol I appreciate the help, but there is literally no AC unit. All we have is oil heat for the winter so the pipes don’t freeze

Thanks for the image, I’m definitely saving that for future use!

Apparently we’re in “extreme caution,” even though it feels humid the forecast says we’re around 50% humidity

It is “hilarious” that you would mention that because I joked with the guys at work that I bet they bought a thermostat that isn’t capable of reading 100° lol

I’m in the US, and OSHA has only ever shown up once on a perfect 75° day and we apparently had notice ahead that they were coming.

I’m sorry to hear that! I definitely appreciate your help, I hope you’re able to find something soon!

Thank you for the detailed response! I’ll have to keep an eye on the wet bulb temperature for future discussions about the heat at work.

The regulations really are frustrating especially since I’ve reached out to local “representatives” about how vague they are and naturally got no response lol

By the end of the day we do!

Not the kind you’d buy, unless it’s some strange Japanese used clothing vending machine lol

Good on them for at least trying to provide something! I’m in manufacturing and we thankfully lack the 40+C issues, but we also lack the great pay and cool break room lol if it’s bad enough on our allotted breaks (2 15min per day + lunch) we’ll just go to our cars and run the AC. They don’t give any extra time to cool off though just the same break structure as usual.

I brought that up once during a health and safety meeting, but the issue is the state law being so vague we can’t really force a change and since this isn’t a corporation they seem less inclined to care about legal issues. We’re just a small “mom and pop” factory, like the health and safety meeting I have is myself and the QA inspection guy lol From how he’s described his interactions with “the office” in relation to things mentioned in the meetings they seem to just want us to write down the minutes of the meetings as a formality for OSHA if they ever did come to inspect.

I’ll mention it again so it is on record multiple times though.