I love my job. It’s not too far from home, I get to work with amazing clients, and my fellow employees are fun to be around. I can’t see myself ever leaving the corporation, but there is one thing that makes my time working in the office certainly difficult, and one of my coworkers brings a portable heater to keep at her desk, and she says that she’s naturally chilly and that it’s certainly difficult for her to work on the tablet when she’s chilly and her fingers feel numb. I understand her discomfort with working in a cool environment, because our office is certainly cold. The control unit is set to 69 degrees and the only person who has access to it is our boss. There’s one key that unlocks the clear box around it, however I don’t know the temperature has changed in months, even though the office is cool, I don’t know it’s cool enough to need a portable heater. The coworker who brings her portable heater is right beside me, and all that heat makes its way to my desk; At first, it felt good. However, after an hour, my desk feels like it’s resting in the sun. It’s so warm and uncomfortable, but my coworker doesn’t care. She’s so blinded by her own discomfort that she doesn’t know mine. I began moving to other areas of the office to work, but then I started resenting her for making me transfer when I wasn’t the one with the original problem. Instead, I’ve submitted a notice to the boss and asked her to handle the temperature situation. There has to be a compromise.
