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We're expected to continue working when it's 90 F and 100% humidity indoors. Dude our paper is so soggy I punch holes in it when I try to write. I am straight up not having a good time.

Also our managers didn't even come in today. What even is capitalism

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

I didn't even have to work in that kind of wetbulb at the bug farm. Highest it ever got was 88° and 90% humidity- but I was 20 feet from an external door where I could step outside anytime for cooler air. And eventually I ended up just turning the humidifier off during my shift because...

You are in a situation where the brain will start to think less clearly. You literally can't work in that for more than half an hour at a time, even someone who is heat-tolerant will be much slower and make all kinds of mistakes.