"Very Important" Man Demands AC Turned Off In Mid Summer

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Eric Lund
Jul 24, 2021 9:00 AM EDT

It just so happens that the people who demand things the loudest are most often the people who know the least about what they want. But hey, he's a very important man, so what he says goes. Here's a Karen who demanded exact change, then got upset when she got it. There's just no pleasing some people.

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    Font - Posted by u/Cantstandyuh 23 hours ago 610 3 15 , 11 Mr. "Very important" doesn't want any AC on him in the middle of summer oC M I work in building operations for some highrise office buildings in sunny Southern California. I maintain electrical systems, plumbing, HVAC, basically anything within the building I fix. My background is HVAC, with plenty of certifications and experience in how things work. The building I'm currently at has covers on the thermostats to prevent tenants from mess
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    Font - Side note: Our HVAC system is a pneumatics system that uses air pressure to operate everything. You need a specialty gauge to check what the pneumatic signal is calling for, heating cooling or nothing. This is why we dont let tenants adjust their own tstats because without the gauge your only guessing what your doing. Anyways Mr very important puts in a call he is way too cold. No problem I go up and find his thermostat has had the cover pried off and set to 68 degrees and then half put b
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    Font - standard temperature and let mr very important know someone had messed with the thermostat and that's why he was so cold. Half way through telling him he cuts me off and says "I dont care about the thermostat I want these vents shut down. I dont want to feel any air." I try to explain it will be a lot more comfortable in a few minutes and shutting the vents is not a good idea in the summer. Well mr very important isnt having it. After all hes very important and knows better than me how co
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    Font - damper at AC box. No air will come out. Well I've dealt with "very important" people before and I know what to expect. So I put a note on the work order "Mr very important asked for no air to come out of the vents in his office despite my objections, so vents have been shut per tenant request." If your aware the west coast in going through a gnarly heat wave right now, so naturally mr very important puts in a call office is too hot. I accept the call, but I go on my way doing my normal du
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    Font - to allow the air to flow into his office and cool it down. Dude looks like I just kicked his dog when he realizes closing the vents was his demand that I tried to talk him out of. I open them up real quick because it's very easy and I leave. Apparently he didnt like being called out like that and called my property managers to complain. I'm not sure what they said back to him but I certainly got a good laugh out of the whole thing.
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    Organism - tsloteconomist - 23h · edited 23h 9 2 This is the true spirit of Malicious Compliance. It should be an episode in the official tv series. I'm thinking 10 episodes, 5-15 min each, with a different celebrity actor playing the bad guy and an unknown actor as the protagonist in each episode. Released on Netflix.
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    Font - 2lovesFL · 22h I work in IT, and if I get one of those types of requests, I say send me an email for my records to CYA. saved me more than a few times, hard coding something being demanded by important рeople.
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    Font - CantEatCatsKevin - 21h "Sorry sir, but you threatened to have me fired if you felt any air flow, and opening the vents to cool this down isn't worth my job". Vote Reply Share Report Save Cantstandyuh OP · 21h I had a woman threaten to sue me personally because I didn't have an oscillating tower fan she could use, only a box fan. People are wild man I tell ya
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