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why shops are freezing cold?

  • 18-11-2016 5:54pm
    #1
    sweetsugar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 79 ✭✭


    Call into a shop to get a paper, it was like walking into a freezer. The door was wide open and there was no heater on. The poor woman at the counter was rubbing her hands and stamping feet to keep warm even though she was wearing a high neck woollen jumper inside her blouse and a fleece jacket. I asked her can she closed the door or put on the heater but she said the door has to be opened at all times and heater only comes on for few hours in the morn. I know the temp in the shop is supposed to be around 16c or more but it was like less than 5c as it was really freezing in the shop. What's it going to like as the weather gets colder! Surely this isn't right?


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  • #2
    Arcade_Tryer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭Arcade_Tryer


    The owner is saving up for a self driving car.


  • #3
    buried
    Registered Users Posts: 9,659 ✭✭✭buried


    Armed robbers and thieves don't like the cold. Sure look at the Costa del Sol

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



  • #4
    Jan Laco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 284 ✭✭Jan Laco


    It's new measures to cut down on aul wans taking up time at the till for a chat. Buy your lotto and your milk and get lost.


  • #5
    Fleawuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    sweetsugar wrote: »
    The door was wide open and there was no heater on.



    /end thread


  • #6
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Her employer has an obligation to heat the shop during cold weather.


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  • #7
    maudgonner
    Registered Users Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Was it a branch of Iceland?


  • #8
    DontThankMe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 732 ✭✭✭DontThankMe


    It's a shop not a fvcking sauna!


  • #9
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    How can the shop be freezing if the temperature was above 0c ?


  • #10
    Goya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 464 ✭✭Goya


    Jan Laco wrote: »
    It's new measures to cut down on aul wans taking up time at the till for a chat. Buy your lotto and your milk and get lost.
    And to make them have their money ready instead of spending an eternity rummaging around for it after the cashier has advised them what the total cost of their goods is.


  • #11
    maudgonner
    Registered Users Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    snubbleste wrote: »
    How can the shop be freezing if the temperature was above 0c ?

    Many substances have freezing points above 0c. Most building materials, for example, would be solid at temperatures much higher than that. So yes, the shop can be freezing at temperatures far, far above 0c.

    /Crappy Physics lesson. :D


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  • #12
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    Flimpson wrote: »
    And to make them have their money ready instead of spending an eternity rummaging around for it after the cashier has advised them what the total cost of their goods is.

    But if their fingers are numb from the cold, or wearing gloves, then it well take longer to get the right change.
    Nothing nicer than going in to a shop in winter and getting that blast of warm air.


  • #13
    TallGlass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,935 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    snubbleste wrote: »
    How can the shop be freezing if the temperature was above 0c ?

    Could have been a shop with an atmosphere of Benzene but if that was the case I doubt the OP would be just complaing about themselves been freezing.


  • #14
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    I say Snowflake.


  • #15
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    sweetsugar wrote: »
    Call into a shop to get a paper, it was like walking into a freezer. The door was wide open and there was no heater on. The poor woman at the counter was rubbing her hands and stamping feet to keep warm even though she was wearing a high neck woollen jumper inside her blouse and a fleece jacket. I asked her can she closed the door or put on the heater but she said the door has to be opened at all times and heater only comes on for few hours in the morn. I know the temp in the shop is supposed to be around 16c or more but it was like less than 5c as it was really freezing in the shop. What's it going to like as the weather gets colder! Surely this isn't right?

    What baffles me is why she was wearing a woollen polo neck jumper inside her blouse.


  • #16
    Ted111
    Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭Ted111


    snubbleste wrote: »
    How can the shop be freezing if the temperature was above 0c ?

    The shop is made of bricks.
    The freezing point of bricks is not 0°C.

    Ridiculous post.


  • #17
    Goya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 464 ✭✭Goya


    DontThankMe wrote: »
    It's a shop not a fvcking sauna!
    Bitterly cold shop
    > sauna - there's a fair bit of a difference in between. ;)

    Bad working conditions for the shop assistant - surely an "open" sign on the door is sufficient in this kind of weather, rather than having to keep the fecking thing open all the time, that's horrible!


  • #18
    soups05
    Registered Users Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭soups05


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Her employer has an obligation to heat the shop during cold weather.

    correct, her employer has to provide reasonable working conditions, including heating, a seat if the job can be done sitting down etc.

    its been law since around 1990 i think. that being said i worked in a shop for 14 years with no heat so i always brought my own little heater and refused to budge from in front of it lol.

    some owners are just tight fisted


  • #19
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    sweetsugar wrote: »
    why shops are freezing cold?

    Really glad you're calling them shops!

    ...so many people nowadays calling shops 'stores' :mad:


  • #20
    Ted111
    Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭Ted111


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Really glad you're calling them shops!

    ...so many people nowadays calling shops 'stores' :mad:


    Some day soon, we'll all be picking up supplies in the local store. :(


  • #21
    machiavellianme
    Registered Users Posts: 12,377 ✭✭✭✭machiavellianme


    Winterlong wrote: »
    But if their fingers are numb from the cold, or wearing gloves, then it well take longer to get the right change.
    Nothing nicer than going in to a shop in winter and getting that blast of warm air.

    It's to keep her fingers numb so she can't go sticking it up mens rear ends.
    Apparently its a pandemic according to the other thread.


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