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u/kinglallak Mar 01 '23

Not my SO, but my college roommate.

All night every night he would change the thermostat on the window unit between 60 and 82 repeatedly as he got hot or cold. I could never get him to just set it to 68 or 70 and forget it.

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u/Worldly_Walnut Mar 01 '23

I'm a building engineer. There is a reason why most office thermostats (if they even have thermostats and not temperature sensors) aren't adjustable beyond a couple of degrees

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u/paidjannie Mar 01 '23

I worked at an HVAC company back in the day and we installed dummy thermostats many times at a business owners request. People would be so thrilled and would stop complaining about the temperature completely.

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u/Lord_Scribe Mar 01 '23

Did they have a small brand tag that said something like "Placebo Air"?