My Jimmy Carter Story
When Carter was president, I was working for the US Census Bureau in Suitland Md. During his presidency, there was an oil embargo and Carter, through executive order, reduced the temperature in all government offices to the mid-fifties. So, we sat there freezing for a couple of days getting no work done. Then someone figured out how to break into the office heaters and by the end of the week the temperature was back to normal and we could work again.
So Carter, at least at the Census Bureau, disrupted work for a couple of days, and probably made a number of people sick.
Mason
I converted values to farenheit.
When I grew up in the winter our house was aroun 50 farenheit and about 60 degrees with heater on.
We had just a pullover and were fine.
Right now I have about 62 inside my flat and Im in tshirt.
I also truly feel my story is as interresting as Mason's.
Actually, it’s significantly better as it is a current event!
I'll check it out and get back to you. Might be a couple of days.
When Carter was president, I was working for the US Census Bureau in Suitland Md. During his presidency, there was an oil embargo and Carter, through executive order, reduced the temperature in all government offices to the mid-fifties. So, we sat there freezing for a couple of days getting no work done. Then someone figured out how to break into the office heaters and by the end of the week the temperature was back to normal and we could work again.
So Carter, at least at the Census Bureau, disr
Malmuth, brave citizens fought and died so you could have the right to reject your nation's call for a minuscule sacrifice in a time of need.
Let's be real almost nobody was doing any work anyway at some government job before the room got cold.
When Carter was president, I was working for the US Census Bureau in Suitland Md. During his presidency, there was an oil embargo and Carter, through executive order, reduced the temperature in all government offices to the mid-fifties.
Hi Mason,
This never happened.
Best Wishes
Thank you for your service!
my heart warmed anticipating a nice old timey tribute from MM about when he met jimmy and shook his hand, with carter smoothly slipping him a peanut mid-shake
instead it's a post bitching about freezing and being physically unable to work because it was mid-50s
Politics aside, even most republicans would have at minimum granted that Carter was one of the most decent humans to ever be President. Imagine being such a loser that you choose the occasion of this man’s death to make up a bullshit grievance to try to attack him.
Take your moralizing to the East Timorese
damn luckbox beat me to it.
he also supported the Khmer in those years too. but I guess they were mostly done with their genocide.
Sorry, I’ll stick to just making fun of Mason for making this story up. That’s at least something we can all agree on right?
My Mason Malmuth Story:
When Mason Malmuth was the owner of this website he hitched his wagon to a guy who egged a suicidal woman into committing suicide. She committed suicide.
So Mason partnered with a guy who flosses with parrots and pushes people off the edge.
SRM
Sorry, I’ll stick to just making fun of Mason for making this story up. That’s at least something we can all agree on right?
Looks like he had an edict for no more than 65 degrees: https://time.com/archive/6854446/living-....
Men long for the mines. We must send them back.
Looks like he had an edict for no more than 65 degrees: https://time.com/archive/6854446/living-....
Correct, and 65 is not remotely the same thing as mid fifties. Surely someone who worked for the census bureau and made his career writing books on gambling theory understands the importance of precise data.
Mason instead chose to use an exaggerated temperature knowing that he’d immediately get ridiculed for claiming that him and his coworkers were freezing due to the inhumanity of a 65 degree thermostat.
Bet Time Magazine (who named Hitler man of the year) isn't accurate.
To be fair to Mr. Malmuth here, I set the temperature in my office at 74 and am a giant baby about it getting anywhere below 72. Though, the entire north wall of my office is floor to ceiling windows of questionable R-value and the thermostat is on the interior wall.
I would also probably hold a lifelong grudge if made to do literal paperwork, by hand, in 50 degree temps before the invention of fingerless gloves. I take back my initial snark.
Going from memory. This happened 46 years ago. The buildings we were in had an old, even for that time, central heating system which would be turned on during the winter (or whenever it was cold). It didn't have a thermostat that could be set. So, the heat was just turned off and it's why everything was so cold.
The General Services Administration (GSA) and not the Census Bureau was the agency in charge of the heating. But there was a way to break into each individual heater which some employees figured out and the heat was turned back on in our office.
If you read the bio in all my books you'll see that it says that. I worked for Census for over six years and th idea for "non-self-weighting strategies," see my Gambling Theory book came from some of the work I did there.
Also, for what this is worth, a very close friend of mine, John Thompson, who I went to school with (at Virginia Tech) eventually became The Director of the Census Bureau.
Looks like he had an edict for no more than 65 degrees: https://time.com/archive/6854446/living-....
"Carter made me half as cold as I remembered one week in the 1970s" isn't quite the same.
You can make this sort of argument against virtually any leader of a major Western country. If you became president, we surely would be able to make this argument about you after the fact. U.S. presidents obviously have not been well-intentioned all the time. but even if you are well-intentioned as president, you are likely to faced with foreign policy situations in which both options in a strategically important country are repressive. Iran in the 1970s is a perfect example. The Shah obviously was repressive, but so was Khomeini.
so close to getting it...
ok, brb bout to take down Western Civ
