Energy Friendly Buildings in Singapore

No one can say that I never do anything for the environment. One thing that office workers like me can do to contribute to the well-being of the environment is to work in an energy-friendly building where you pay for air-con but you don't actually get air-con, unless by air-con, you mean hot 35 degree air wafting vaguely around the room.

We asked some people to come in and look at the air-con system to resolve the no-air-con issue, and by their responses, you would think we literally dragged some random people off the street and asked them for a really wild guess. The responses varied from "Don't know" to "Why don't you use your own private air con" to "The air con is actually working". To get my point across, I asked them to bring in all their equipment for a really good look, then I stayed in the room to make sure no one left for a good 20 minutes. After that, no one tried to claim "the air con is actually working" anymore.

Sometimes I wonder how people who manage offices decide on their sub-contractors. And how sub-contractors find suitable people to carry out their jobs. It must be a challenge. If this continues, I'm going to have a glorious tan on half my face, and a permanent squint. Right now the afternoon sun is out in all of its glory, and I am almost sunblind looking at my screen. People walk into my office and cringe from the wall of heat.