AUCKLAND OFFICE LOCKED IN THIRD-DAY STANDOFF OVER WHETHER 18 DEGREES IS A PUFFER DAY
A Christchurch correspondent looks on from four degrees and a nor'wester, weeping into a cold pie.
An Auckland marketing office on Karangahape Road has entered its third day of internal debate over whether 18 degrees constitutes puffer-jacket weather. No resolution is in sight. One resignation has been threatened.
The dispute began Monday when account manager Felicity Carrington-Webb arrived in a knee-length North Face and declared the office "absolutely arctic". A colleague in a linen shirt suggested she might be overreacting. HR has been looped in.
"It was eighteen degrees," said designer Marcus Tipa. "Eighteen. I grew up in Invercargill. My nana hangs washing out in eighteen. In a singlet."
Felicity, contacted at her standing desk, held her ground. "It's the wind chill off the harbour," she said, from inside a building. "And the air-con. My circulation isn't what it was since I went plant-based."
Down here in Sockburn it was four degrees and blowing sideways through a half-built townhouse. My father walked to Lancaster Park in a cardigan in 1974 and called it summer. He'd have had words for Felicity. Most of them would've been "bugger off".
The office thermostat read 19.5. Felicity has ordered a second puffer for layering.
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Reader Letters
Garry (Halswell)
Wouldn't have happened in '94. We had standards back then, not this furniture nonsense.
ropeable_dave
mate '94 was thirty years ago what are you on about
MumOf3_Riccarton
Honestly fair enough. Council inorganic is Thursday and my berm is a war zone anyway.
Margaret_F
Gerald would have sorted it with one phone call to the council.
BarryBishopdale
Bloody typical. And while we are at it, the council has been useless since 1987. Cyclists probably love this.
Margaret_F
Reminds me of Gerald. He would have had opinions about the pallet, I can tell you that.
couchgremlin
Lol
long_winded_garry
I remember when the whole street used to argue about whose turn it was to mow the berm and now we cannot even agree on a mattress without someone invoking the Resource Management Act for forty minutes straight like it is a royal commission.