The HVAC industry is important in so many ways. There are the obvious reasons that pop into everyone’s head such as keeping people comfortable. Further down the list would be fighting crime.

While Major League Baseball is in full swing (pun intended) and the NBA Finals are upon us, I want to talk football. More specifically, I want to talk about the Super Bowl.

According to an article by the Associated Press, a Texas man was arrested last week for attempting to cash a check at a Fort Worth bank. The funny part of the story - the check was for $360 billion dollars.

Except, possibly, for soy smoothies, you might consider a health fair. It could make for more fit and productive employees as well as lower health care costs.

I recently came across the story below. Hopefully, it will give you something to think about as you are pulling 16-hour days to secure the perfect retirement…

Some bosses are laid back. Some bosses are strict. Then there is the Qwest supervisor who according to the Associated Press (AP), tried to cut down on bathroom breaks by telling workers to use disposable urinal bags in the field.

In a story broke by our sister publication from the U.K. - The ACR News - Carrier Corp. will be keeping Prince Charles and Camilla (to be honest I do not know her title and it wasn’t worth my time to Google it) cool.

Larry Taylor does not just want fellow contractors to think outside the box, he wants them to throw the box away. That was the message Taylor, owner of AirRite Air Conditioning Co., Fort Worth, Texas, delivered at his workshop titled “Selling Air: Marketing HVAC as a Service, Not a Box” at the 2008 ACCA Annual Conference and Indoor Air Expo.

I am sure every technician has a story about the craziest problem they have found when doing a service call. The question is, can you beat finding an air conditioning unit that has been doused with deer urine?

It might be an uphill battle for me to spend eternity upstairs rather than downstairs. But I hope when my number is up, I end up at the pearly gates for Judgment Day surrounded by the lowlife thieves that are stealing HVAC equipment from churches.