High turnover; get burnt out quickly without AC in the warehouse

I swear to God, I have somehow become a recruiter at my company. This is not the job that I ever signed up for and I don’t feel as though I’m qualified in any way to continually provide young labor workers to our warehouse. However, it seems like we simply can’t keep anyone employed out in the production space. Therefore, we keep hiring new people to take on the job so that we can keep business chugging along. I tried talking to my boss about this unfortunate employment problem, but he doesn’t want to deal with it. I’m quite sure that the issue is our central cooling system and nobody wants to hear that we have a large HVAC expense lying ahead of us. You see, when I was first hired here the warehouse had a massive commercial air conditioning unit that effectively kept the production floor at a tolerable temperature. I wouldn’t say it if the indoor air was crisp and cool, but it felt much better than standing in the sun outside. These days, we don’t have an operable heating and cooling system stationed out in the warehouse. When the massive commercial AC unit broke down last year, my boss said that he would worry about the cooling system destruction before summer rolled around again. Well, our summer season came and the professional HVAC repairman never did. For the past several months there has been absolutely no air quality control out in the warehouse space and I think that it’s creating employee burnout at an increasing rate as the summer heat and humidity kicks into gear. Our new hires are only lasting a week or two before they quit the sweltering environment and we have to find replacements. I know it’s not what my boss wants to hear, but we really need to get a new AC unit rather than new workers every week.

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