I need to explain how thermostats work

[conuly]

Your furnace has one setting: off/on.

Your air conditioner has one setting as well.

The thermostat is just a way of automating the offs and the ons.

Turning the heat to 80 doesn’t heat the house faster. Turning the a/c to 60 doesn’t cool the house faster.

Keeping the heat on 80 so your employees are forced to run the a/cs constantly in order to keep the house merely “sweltering” is deeply wasteful, and I have spent considerable time trying to discreetly open the case to the thermostat. Alas, I cannot pick the lock.

Trying to draft a text to the manager about this that doesn’t involve the words “I don’t want to tell you how to do your job”. Calling attention to what I’m doing is unlikely to help.

Comments

[mtbc]

Goodness, yes, one of my pet peeves also in situations where heating has been off and has now been turned on and the cold people crank the target temperature up high.

[watervole]

Our lodger struggles to understand thermostats as well, but at lest he doesn't touch the controls.

Try phrasing it as a cost saving suggestion. Explain that someone, probably a long time ago, set the thermostat incorrectly, and it's costing a lot of money.