#ITS LIKE 75 DEGREES BUT THE THERMOSTAT WONT TURN DOWN

[thatoneluckybee]

i just sneezed unexpectedly and fell off the bed, proceeding to bonk my head on the same wall i ran into earlier and rip my phone out of the charger

help

[flockofdoves]

godddd. was like . jesus christ our electric bill is so high this month when were not doing anything different and if anything it should be less than past months where we were even using the AC. and the only correlation i could think is one of my roommates keeps putting the thermostat up to 90 fucking degrees

(both bc she wants it wildly hot in general at like 80 and then justifies it by saying ‘well my friend from new zealand said that the university keeps their heat at 75 degrees and thats normal’ when like. 1. why are you using your friend from new zealand as a reference for US indoor heating norms 2. the university we both go to has a steam heat system that makes it way more efficient to do that than with normal heating systems because its just run off from other processes and people complain its way too hot there all the time 3. 75 is still not 80 lol. and bc she doesnt listen to me when i say that really wont make it heat up any faster and is just gonna be counterproductive if she actually wants it lower than 90 bc once it reaches that and you turn it down its either gonna be 90 for a while or the ac is gonna go on. and then she forgets to turn it down regardless)

but then i was like. wait no our lease says we dont pay for heat but do pay for electricity so we must not have electric heat so the ac going on alone after my roommate turns it down from 90 degrees cant be making That much electricity right?? i’m not having my lease violated in such a blatant way right????’ but there was no info anywhere online or on our lease about the type of heat we have and when i asked the apartment office they literally were like ‘uhhhhh idk what type of heat the buildings have sorry!’ lmao???

so i decided to double check the thermostat again today and it was in emergency heating mode???? and i feel like it mightve been for a while without me even realizing which like. my bad. but godddd that must mean its been a while of us having giant fucking electricity bills from my roommate putting it up to 90 degrees when we dont even fucking have electric heating someone mustve accidentally switched it to emergency heating mode where it uses electricity instead???? goddddddd