air con
Our office has air con. It doesn't work properly, it's either freezing cold or boiling hot.

Our manager jealously guards the key to the cupboard where the controls are, even though he's hardly ever in the office and will cheerfully bugger off somewhere more comfortable with his laptop if it gets too hot/cold.

'Can we have access to the control panel please?' us engineers ask.
'No, its very complicated and you'll bugger it up.'

We pointedly look out on to the shop floor and the several hundred millions pounds worth of top-end multi-axis CNC machines that we program to thousands of a millimietre tolerances for critical oil and gas oil rig safety systems.*

He pretends not to notice.


*(including BP. ooops, wasn't me. I hope.)
(inflateable, Sat 12 Jun 2010, 11:37, 4 replies)

A bunch of engineers can't pick a lock?
Or just take a drill to it.
( speedyballbangpots, Sat 12 Jun 2010, 13:19, closed)

see...
we're engineers. We're not locksmiths. Nor mechanics. Nor carpenters. Nor air-con technicians.

Which is why we can't fix it ourselves.

Besides which, I think he'd notice if we drilled the lock.
(inflateable, Sat 12 Jun 2010, 15:29, closed)

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I'd have taken it as a personal challenge to get inside that cupboard, must be able to find the controller details online somewhere or get a copy of the programing manual from the company.
( speedyballbangpots, Sat 12 Jun 2010, 16:53, closed)

Alternatively...
Find the connection to the air con unit and fit another controller in a more accessible location.
( notmyrealname, Mon 14 Jun 2010, 18:28, closed)