I ran a single manned little kebab shop probably about the size of an average bathroom. 3 grills doing pretty constantly. The summer 2years ago we hit the low 30s outside. My thermometer inside the building where I stood most of my night was sitting at 52. Think it’s the worst kitchen I’ve ever worked in.

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Rh-27@reddit

I don't miss being a teenager and working in the kitchens during peak summer.

Easily around 40c inside and very humid.

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orrlicks@reddit

yep totally

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empethee@reddit

Don't think people's realise this with chefs. The heat they are complaining about working in this week. Yeah we work in that most days 🤣

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godstar67@reddit

Just finished a nine hour shift. The aircon that on a good day is like being blown on by a cat was non-functional today. I’ve had a coffee, two cans of sprite, and three litres of water with lime juice. Stood between gas flames, a flat top and a boiler on one side with the service fridges pumping out heat on the other. I might manage a wee in a couple of days.

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thebigread@reddit

My girlfriend is a chef.

And Im an air conditioning engineer-the most ironic job in the world.

RabidHamsterSlayer@reddit

I also worked in Greggs and we had a cafe. Washing dishes in the steaming hot, unventilated sink area. Cooking food in the tiny, metal, hot box of an oven that had warning signs all over it because it was scorching hot on the outside. Customers would come in and complain about the AC 🤬and the manager would turn it off!

I fit ceiling track hoists in domestic houses.

So mainly in the houses of elderly people

Mainly in the lofts

Always hot, always full of 50 year old insulation.

It gets in your bumhole.

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How did taking the Aircon out save money? Surely it cost money to have it taken out? Am I missing something?

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Spam_Frittering@reddit

Probably because to keep it cool they left the engine running whilst doing their deliveries, so the employees now sweat their tits off getting into a stinking hot van to save a few quid.

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Almanis46@reddit

It's the weight, the limiting factor to how many deliveries fit on 1 van is the 3.5 ton weight limit, rather than space or time. Removing the AC means each van can do 3 more deliveries per day.

Aircon is powered by the engine. If you want it on, the engine works slightly harder, reducing fuel efficency by around 8-10%.

Cold drink usually, but make it from a sealed container. I had numerous people ask me if I wanted a drink and then proceeded to hand me a dirty glass filled with tepid tap water.

Also, to make the delivery easier for both of you, grab an empty clothes basket and chuck everything straight into it. You can put it away at your leisure without the anxiety of being watched, and the driver gets a couple of minutes extra to cool down.

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peanut_butter_xox@reddit

Thank you will be sure to keep drinks in the fridge

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Electronic-Trade-504@reddit

This is my job. They can justify having a freezer and fridge in the van but nothing to cool down the worker. Stingy bastards!

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Midgar918@reddit

Laws on cold chain for food. No min or max temperature laws for working conditions.

Hell supermarkets aren't temperature controlled for employee comfort, it's purely for customer comfort. If it weren't for the customers they'd happily allow workers to sweat or freeze their balls off.

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YGhostRider666@reddit

I'm a supermarket HGV driver and all of our units have working AC. It's was part of the union negotiations that all vehicles must have a working and maintained AC unit for device welfare.

We also have a "hot weather action plan" where drivers are given bottles of water too and allowed to wear shorts to work.

Unions... Great aren't they

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thepoliteknight@reddit

Sadly the recognised union for the one I worked for were notoriously shite. So no, not all unions are great.

They were Useless Seven Days A Week

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Tim6181@reddit

I hate this penny pinching. It really makes so little difference to the purchase or lease costs. And no effect on fuel economy. Since I assume you’re driving with the window down not to die.

But twice I’ve gone into senior logistics roles and seen fleet managers do this to apparently save money that delivered no saving.

Not so much me but more my bf. He works as a bin man and running around in this heat to hit the 2000 bin a day with no air con in the trucks along with cramming 3 guys into said trucks is hellish. His manager is so thoughtful that he thought giving everyone 1 small 500ml bottle of water would help them get through the 10 hour shift…… lol however, some people do come out their houses and give out cold drinks and ice creams to help when it’s especially hot which he really does appreciate.

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ContestMassive9071@reddit

Yep, a certain company that begins with T (esco) not only has decided to skimp on air con to save money but they've also chosen the cheapest van model they could find to save money, which obviously breaks down constantly.

You've gotta love how some wank sitting in a cool, air conditioned office making 100K+ a year makes decisions that gradually makes your job worse so that they can save a few pounds.

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thegreyman1986@reddit

Honestly not bad. I sit in an air conditioned office looking at a bank of cctv cameras.

Still not comfortable, but at least I have some form of air conditioning to take the edge off

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mjpip@reddit

Farming. Imagine wading through slurry which is only marginally thicker than the flies above it, while doing hard physical labour and avoiding various potentially life threatening hazards.

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Defiant-Tackle-0728@reddit

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paddzzz@reddit

I work for a local council on the street cleaning team. I feel bad for the bin loaders

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Educational-Web-6263@reddit

Home carer!

YGhostRider666@reddit

I'm surprised there is no AC. I'm a truck driver at sainsburys and all of our units have working AC. It's literally part of the union negotiations to have a functioning AC units for the welfare of the driver.

DelGriffiths@reddit

Not for male staff.

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HikingHarpy@reddit

Have to wait for the headteacher to give the go ahead in ours.

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quite_acceptable_man@reddit

I hated that rule when I was at school, and I hate it now. The previous headteacher at my children's school was obsessed with jumpers. In fact it seemed like all she did all day was patrol the school looking for kids not wearing their jumpers.

I told mine that if they're hot, take it off and I will deal with the headteacher.

Luckily, that old bag retired, and the new head teacher is more concerned with educating kids than with minor uniform transgressions.

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DelGriffiths@reddit

I used to work in a school where men needed the Headteacher's permission to remove their tie. There was no AC because it was a 1960s style comp. Madness.

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Repulsive-Pangolin58@reddit

I got lucky in that my lot were too melted to argue so could be gently told to do work and they would because not doing what they were told required too much in the heat.

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kelleehh@reddit

Surely a lot of kids would still be in polyester if there wasn’t a uniform.

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BRIStoneman@reddit

We told our kids to come in gym kit today.

I'm due in September... This summer is going to be interesting 🫠

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braziliandarkness@reddit

Ugh, having been on the antenatal and postnatal wards during the mini heatwave in early may...why on earth is the heating on!?! It was like a sauna in there, and I was just lounging around on a bed...can't imagine what it's like working in it day in and out.

No.

It's not

Too expensive to retro fit.

Some office spaces/theatre/physio gyms will have but not the wards

WesternEmpire2510@reddit

I'm currently delivering for a supermarket. I'm in the middle of nowhere. No public toilets. No shops. No shade. Van has no aircon.

I can't ask customers to use their facilities or for a drink. That's gross misconduct.

I can't go to the toilet in the wild. That's gross misconduct.

I can't drink whilst I'm moving along, they have driving facing AI assisted cameras, and it's gross misconduct.

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Private__Redditor@reddit

This person works at the Home Office.

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Private__Redditor@reddit

What's it like down the London Underground ? I remember it used to be really hot down there in summer.

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jennye951@reddit

Teaching teenagers can get really smelly and they complain a lot!

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Electronic-Goal-8141@reddit

As a street cleaner, I have to be out in the sun all day.

I deliver Groceries. In this heat it’s rough, but it really depends where we end up.

My depot covers the whole of Kent and South-East London. So; if I end up heading down to the coast or some nice countryside it’s tolerable. Nice shade, a bit of a breeze and I can usually chase down an ice-cream van if I’m desperate.

However, Wednesday night I was in London and it was my own personal hell. Rotherhithe and Surrey Quays mostly, so it was a majority blocks of flats, many without lifts. So, particularly hot and hard work even on a good day.

When the weathers is nice, it’s supplemented by people buying extra bottled water, booze, bags of charcoal etc.

Not this summer (thank the gods) but last, I worked in a semi-big chain coffee shop.

It’s the hottest day of the year and the shop front has 20ft tall glass windows that face the sun for the entire day. Due to a genius design choice, the small kitchen/food prep area was located directly in front one of these windows. The mini-kitchen contained a massive oven that blew nuclear blast levels of heat directly at your face whenever you opened it (which was every couple of minutes), but there was also two pancake makers kicking out heat, a dishwasher kicking out heat, aswell as several fridges around me which are all constantly kicking out heat from their little internal fans desperately trying to keep the fridges cool.

Having to stand there all day processing multiple orders a minute, constantly being blasted by ovens, overheating fridge fans, and the sun itself directly shining down on you through glass felt at the time like the heat based version of being waterboarded. I’ve never sweated so much in my life. I was borderline delirious at the end of every shift and would often vomit on the walk home.

And this happened every single time there was a hot day.

A hot days work in that place was easily the top of the list of worst shifts I’ve ever worked in my life.

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bluepeacock3@reddit

Laundry in a care home……. Yes, the heating is still on 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Forgetful8nine@reddit

Driving instructor.

Spent nearly 9 hours in the car today. It was terrible! The AC blows ice cold on the drivers side, but only pretty chilly on the passenger side. It was horrible!

...does anyone believe me that it was dreadful? Or are you all calling me an arsehole for bragging about it? Even I'm calling me an arsehole!

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Imstayinganonymous42@reddit

Delivery driver. I deliver light and heavy goods. I’ve been one sip of water away from heat stroke for the past few days :(

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FritzlsChild@reddit

Hairdresser. It's vile, everyone's sticky and I'm In your personal space, you're in mine there's up to 20 peoples in a fairly small environment with hot tools. I'm miserable 😒

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Mobile car valeting and detailing.

Mm I dont think so. Most the year round its very hot. Even winter is 20-25 typically...

I think some people attached to unions arent expected to work if it gets over a certain temperature, but I'm by no means an expert on it.

Teacher. In the UK. No aircon. No openable windows.

It’s horrible

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poundstorekronk@reddit

I drive a bin lorry.

I work in renewables, and spend today in the nacelle of a wind turbine (top part) with an internal temperature of 36 degrees

Even with the roof hatches open you still felt like you couldn’t catch a breath 😂

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Adventurous-Abies-31@reddit

School kitchen. Need I say more…

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Novel-Structure-2359@reddit

Not disgusting at all. It's actually quite delightful.

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I work in a foundry. Pouring metal at 1500C.

Teacher - SCIENCE teacher. 30 sweaty teenagers, 15 Bunsen burners at midday, immediately after their PE lesson.

The heat, the smell, the horror.

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NovoCastria70@reddit

Awful. Domestic cleaner. People still have their heating on!

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audigex@reddit

Sitting at my desk in my spare bedroom/home office

It got a bit warm yesterday so I got the portable AC unit(s) out at teatime and it's blasting away on the landing

I'm not sure exactly what the temperature is but I put a thin hoodie on about 20 minutes ago so presumably in the low 20s now

(The missus is pregnant and due home soon, so I'm deliberately leaving the AC running to generally cool the house down and reduce humidity, before anyone asks why I'd put a hoodie on rather than turn the AC off)

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TeeblesTee@reddit

Laughing at you from Australia!

No, seriously, 13 months ago I really would have been laughing at you, but I was in London last summer for 3 days when it was just under 30 and it felt SO different to even 38 - 40 here in Western Australia. I can't explain it, even outside it felt hotter at a UK 25. I can get it when it comes to working inside, where there might not be air conditioning, but WTF is with it feeling so much hotter even outdoors?

I'm a gardener. Most of customers don't have gardens with a large amount of shade. Add into the mix that my job is quite labour intensive, it's quickly stacks up to awful. The days are long as well - make hay while the sun shines and all that.

I used to work as a mechanical fitter in the waste side of the water industry, you don’t know the crap I’ve seen and smelled, literally!

Delivery driver for a high street pharmacist. Thankfully, as of last year, all vans now have aircon, however i've still had to deliver a few "full loads" of monthlies, which has meant lugging multiple trays of drinks and other heavy stuff up multiple flights of stairs.

It's pretty painful. Hobs, grill + two ovens on full blast all day. Service kitchen is probably 40 degrees.

Digging in the rain is actually preferable. You stay warm, you stay cooled down, ground condition is perfect. But underfoot is a problem.

Concrete in heat is horrible. A pour cures much faster than you want. And then cracks.

Concreting the rain is horrible because settling water on a surface removes ability to see the finish (although it does announce hollows)

Concrete in the cold is best.

Lots of different aspects to my job, weather affects them all.

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J1mj0hns0n@reddit

Working in the waste transfer shed. The heat brings out the maggots unfortunately. Becomes a part of my job to monitor how many maggots are knocking around. As well driving shovel loader and loading waste into artics for the picking line or landfill.

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SojournerInThisVale@reddit

blisteringly hot

Is it?

wider question

Nah that's half the fun - especially if they say they're difficult and others have struggled before, enjoy a challenge!

It's impossible to give you a totally accurate answer without having seen your anaesthetic chart but feelings of euphoria are generally caused by strong acting pain killing drugs such as morphine and fentanyl.

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zool_52@reddit

Between 45'c and 50'c where I work. It's not ideal

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Gobshitescotty@reddit

Postman.

Imagine walking around aimlessly for 5 hours, in this heat.

Yeah it’s that fun.

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pantyperverted@reddit

Roofer, we only do metal roofs, there’s no place to hide from the sun, touch a part of the roof with bare skin and you instantly burn. We have a copper roof to do next week, can’t wait, it’s like slowly frying yourself, and you can’t see anything because of the glare off of the copper.

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AARonFullStack@reddit

Software engineer. Triple monitors, laptop, my own laptop and pc. Small room, smaller window. No fan

That was a bad year.

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Up_The__Toffees@reddit

Working from home partially naked with a fan aimed directly at my balls

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indelible_inedible@reddit

I've done warehouse work on a mezzanine floor up near the roof that topped out at 43C. That job was a miserable hell enough as it was, that heat made it only marginally worse.

I work in a nursery. The room I work in is upstairs and has no A/C but the other rooms which are downstairs do have it. We're constantly on the move, it's a stressful environment and it's in no way safe for staff or kids but apparently as long as the fans are working and they have water it's fine to work in.

Make it make sense.

My current job is fine, I work in an office that has AC

During Covid I worked in an Amazon warehouse and that was hell on earth, it would hit 20c in there in the middle of winter, during summer it would be pushing 40

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Intelligent_Put_3606@reddit

I was a secondary school science teacher for nearly forty years. The final year, I got to teach in a new room with air conditioning. It wasn't noticeable in the winter (just like central heating) but you can bet I noticed how much more comfortable it was during the summer term. 19°C - < chef's kiss >

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Inevitable_Thing_270@reddit

I’m a doctor and during Covid we had to wear full ppe more often.

In the height of summer, on 24C day, had to go into an isolation room wearing: 😷 - my own scrubs (and underwear) - full surgical gown - face mask with tight shield - eye protection shield - double glove over the cuffs of the gown (seals you in at the arms and it was tight around my neck with wrap around tie around the body) - I’m short so the gown bundles up around my feet and doesn’t let any air flow.

And the room had a big window and no cooling ventilation so basically I was a greenhouse within a greenhouse.

And the equipment I was using got hot in my hand.

It was soo uncomfortable and I was sweating so much that at one point I had sweat in my eyes, but no one could wipe my brow to stop it.

When I got out of the room, one of the nurses helped we disrobe from the outer layers because she said I looked awful. The inside of the gown was wet from the personal greenhouse effect.

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cyclingisthecure@reddit (OP)

Home bargins sells these blue oshee hydration sports drinks that are quite large possibly over 500ml that are spectacular frozen and are only 69p or so! Im sure they would enjoy them. Kinda like powerade but cheaper and much larger

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melanie110@reddit

Perfect. Thank you xx

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Ok-Jacket8836@reddit

Extremely cushy.

I'm either in a temperature controlled lab, or in my air-conditioned car.

Graphite engineer working in an outdoor factory, having to wear full protective coversuit which also covers your entire head/face depending on the job.

Machines are running at full power, there's no AC and the sun in shining on the factory all day and it pushes 40c+ as the ventilation is shite, honestly its grueling and peeling off the drenched protective suit while sweat and carbon stick to you is nasty.

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Jakeball400@reddit

Council landscaper in Scotland. Absolutely fucking brutal

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ThickTadpole3742@reddit

I work in the upstairs office of an engineering factory. Feel terrible for the lads downstairs. No air con or windows. Just a few fire doors. We have air con in the office so I leave work without breaking a sweat all day.

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robertm94@reddit

At the risk of inciting the wrath of everyone here, I work in a nice air conditioned office and my flat is more or less perpetually shaded so at home I'm not feeling the heat that badly.

I'm working on a 'cool the human, not the room' approach. The fan is blowing cooler air on me from outside.

Also, i've got a smart thermometer tracking the temperature drops/increases.. the fan is working.

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ChestMinimum@reddit

Firefighter.

It's tolerable once you had a few ice creams and a water fight though!

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Futhamucker1@reddit

Me too. Unfortunately for a service that makes us wear fire gear for every job rather than having RTA gear etc.

Just putting the gear on is bad enough, never mind doing anything in it.

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JakeCMMA@reddit

Same here. Luckily been on leave through most of this hot weather. Plenty of good about our job however if i’m going to complain - our station only has aircon in 2 rooms, the gym and the community room. Only time the community room seems to be booked by the public is on days when you want the air con. Gym is barely big enough to get 2 people in at a time. On top of that our appliances don’t have working air con and even when it does work it’s only in the front for gaffer and drivers enjoyment.

My dad and brother are both fabricator welders. They say during the hotter, sunnier weather, they have lots of jobs to weld, all in their workshops with no air con, fans, or any other cooling device. The moment it comes to going out to fit it, we get that one little bit of rain. The moment they've finished and got back into the van, the rain disappears.

Motorcycle instructor.

You'd think it be nice. Riding your bike, taking in the sun. Having a day out.

It's awful (for me). Most routes being 20/30mph. Lots of traffic. Bike gear. Outside all day. Hot bike. Having to speak while riding just adds to the humidity inside the helmet.

And while I fucking hate the weather. I'm still more than capable of riding to a good level without much effort. But the poor students. Not only are they under pressure with the learning and concentration. They've got this weather to contend with. Some having never worn bike gear before. So I've really got to stay on top of my duty of care to them and stop more regularly for breaks. Which just adds extra time onto an already long day.

People drive shit in the summer. Nobody likes being stuck in hot traffic or behind a moped going 27mph in a 40. Being tailgated is worse. Drivers rushing is worse. (Drivers chance pulling out in front of students more) I have more "close calls" in the summer.

Waterproof gear is great. I could swim in my gear and be dry, warm and comfortable. In the summer I'm wearing the bare minimum to be safe and it sucks. Sweaty all day. Helmet wet with sweat. Eyes stinging. Sun burn.

Stopping for a coffee to warm up a little is a nice chill break. Stopping for water every 20mins and having to de-gear for a while just to breathe is torture.

It's easier when it's raining. If the weather is unsafe during the winter training can be stopped, tests cancelled etc....I'm actually not quite sure what the limit is for the heat at this moment in time.

I used to deal with washroom replenishment. In theory it was great - load your van up with all of the things that you need at the beginning of the week, hammer through the envelope of work that you are given, then the rest of the week is yours, albeit on call.

Sounds great, right? The only problem was you could only go to the incinerator once a fortnight. So you have a van full of lovely, used stinking, festering sanitary towels. Not so bad in winter, but in summer or any kind of warm-ish weather, it absolutely reeked.

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tommmmmmmmy93@reddit

I mean it's only gross because my flat has no air con or a way to really get a good airflow going. Standing fans are not even touching it.

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Honestly, you don't understand how hard it is to work in a 16-degree air con office. Its too cold.

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mittenshape@reddit

Loooool I work in a greenhouse doing heavy work. Send help.

(Garden centre/nursery).

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Dantwon@reddit

I work for an industrial bakehouse, my job isn't too bad as it's an air conditioned lab, but it's the lads on the shop floor that have it bad. It can be 25+ degrees in there on a cold day. So with heatwaves like this it's uncomfortable to walk through, let alone work a 12 hour shift, moving 25kg bags

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random_username_96@reddit

Not me but my partner. He chops down trees. Today will go one of two ways:

Ground work. This will mean he has to wear heavy, thick chainsaw gear - trousers, boots, gloves, helmet, all of it - and is constantly on his feet shifting heavy stuff around. He will be at genuine risk of heat stroke even with appropriate breaks and access to water. It's one of many jobs where we're going to have to start risk assessing whether it's safe to be doing in this heat at all.

Machine work. This will mean he gets to sit in a temperature controlled cab, albeit in a bit of an air-conditioned glass house. Uncomfortable, but manageable.

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NiixxJr@reddit

Hotel Porter. Running luggage up and down floors in a no AC hotel sucks. The 3rd and 4th floor are like ovens. Honestly I don't know how the guests survive in their rooms.

Materials set really quickly in the heat and gloves are difficult to put on (I've had to go from XS to L in the heat before, and that's completely useless as the fingers are twice as long as my own fingers and they just wobble around like saggy sausages, I have about as much dexterity as I do with oven gloves on).

Sometimes the decontamination rooms are saunas all year round, which is lovely in the winter but horrible for the rest of the year. Autoclaves are constantly pushing out steam and there isn't always enough ventilation to remove the heat. Fortunately I don't have to spend too long in there but sometimes I can be in there for an hour at a time.

I think the worst thing in the heat is wearing surgical gowns, they're usually plastic lined so liquid can't get through so you basically end up cooking inside of the gowns. COVID was great fun when we weren't allowed to use air con but had to wear the equivalent to plastic bin bags for every patient when it was 30°c+ outside.

I offered the binmen drinks today. Poor guys. Not a great job in this weather I bet

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PsychoticDust@reddit

I walk to work, so I'm sweating by the time I arrive, but we have really good air con in the office, so I spend all day rather comfortable. A long time ago I used to work in retail, and I do not envy anyone hauling around cages for a delivery in this heat.

I also used to work for the NHS, and we were in a small, stuffy office, with a small window and a small desk fan.

i-love-rum@reddit

It's shit isn't it haha. Don't even end up pissing cuz you just sweat all the water out 😂

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SeaworthinessOdd9380@reddit

Luckily I mostly work from home, all my site work has been cancelled due to the temperatures and lack of PPE. But the office is horrible, think of a large concrete building with large areas of just glass windows, no AC, no fans, and windows that don't open very much.

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nilesintheshangri-la@reddit

Absolutely awful. I work on a farm and it's hot and sticky in the summer. It also gets very humid where I live, my glasses often fog up when I go outside. Unloading wagons of small squares in a hay loft that only has the small opening for the hay elevator to fit in, no circulation, and it's 32 out, feels like 45 in the loft. I spend the days with sweat stinging my eyes. Still love the job.

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PhilsomeFour@reddit

We have air conditioning in our office, so yay. The nay is I'm one of 2 men in an office with 8 women. We get maybe an hour of it on before jumpers and cardigans start getting put on and complaining that it's cold

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Fallenangel152@reddit

Sorry everyone. Lab based engineer in a temperature controlled room at 20c.

when the air conditioning works? miserable but do-able in just a t-shirt.

I worked doing manual labour in Cyprus in 40+ degrees. It's 27ish here in London. It's summer.

Used to be a prison nurse who worked days...no air con, no air circulation, everyone from every department stealing fans. Theres a bit of breeze between wings when you go through the corridor/tunnels but not much as the windows wouldnt open properly and you could easily walk about 1/2 mile between wings.

Now im going to be working nights, just me and ALL the fans.

Physio and I remember being on a elderly care ward in July that had an outbreak of diarrhoea and vomiting bugs simultaneously. It was a locked ward due to wandering patients and it was sweltering hot. When I would enter the ward in the morning the smell would hit my face in the face like a slap in the nose.

This one isn't bad,

grimseverrr@reddit

I work in a kitchen with 6 pressure fryers and a three across open fryer as well as hot hold - it gets veeeery hot and humid and no windows or open doors due to pest entry points 🫠

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b_of_the_bang_@reddit

I am doing head spa treatments in a room with no window, using lots of steam and hot water. But it’s fine, a million times better than being in a professional kitchen. That’s not fun, good luck to all the kitchen staff out there, drink plenty of water!

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cyclingisthecure@reddit (OP)

Ive had massages before that is legitimately hard work I felt kinda bad for her having to have a workout just to iron out my knots

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Annual-Cookie1866@reddit

Ambulance service.

Our uniform is not designed for the heat and the often physical nature of the job means I sweat like fuck.

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cyclingisthecure@reddit (OP)

Yes I do see you guys around in what appears to be quite heavy duty pants and polo shirts / boots. Does the ambulances have ac?

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Annual-Cookie1866@reddit

They do but they’re often faulty.

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That_Northern_bloke@reddit

I've been doing forest school this morning and we've been cooking on campfires 🙃 I am now WFH and about to have a very cold shower

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HipHopRandomer@reddit

I’m a scaffolder on power stations. It’s fucking awful in this heat. The furnaces burn at 800°C which causes a lot of residual heat in the boiler hall, then factor in when it’s 28°C outside that big metal building suddenly turns into an oven.

I work in construction, currently in a massive block of council flats above a shopping centre.

I work construction in a hospital, they have the heating on during the summer.

Shorts aren't allowed.

WingiestOfMirrors@reddit

I've managed to avoid it but is should have been doing site visits during the design of sewerage treatment works. They smell at the best of times but with less rain the sewerage is more concentrated and the heat enables more of the smells emanate especially from the sludge holding tanks

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objectablevagina@reddit

Welding it's about 38° in here at the moment.

Feel free to drown me if you see me.

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Class 2 truck driver. Mostly ok, I have an air conditioned cab. Occasionally I have to do physical like just, pulling 600kg with a pump truck. But that's not so often.

I feel for any factory / construction / road workers today. Yall are heroes.

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ImFamousYoghurt@reddit

Candle making isn’t the chilliest profession

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LastofAcademe@reddit

To adjust the air conditioning we used to have to speak to facilities, who would have to put in a call out to the air conditioning company to come and adjust it.

We were asking so frequently that they caved and just paid for us to have a thermostat installed. Literally the only office in a 3 story building that has one lol

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