Robbery
I have been robbed, and I cannot complain.
I got the notification today morning that daylight savings has been activated (deactivated?). That was a surprise to me because 1) I didn’t fully understand what that meant, 2) I still don’t fully understand what that means, and 3) I woke up surprisingly fully rested on a Sunday morning.
Because the alarm technically rang an hour later.
Because we “fall back” to an older time.
And I am furious.
According to my math, I was supposed to get an hour now, and they will take away an hour in March next year. +1, -1. I am an immigrant in the US; this is the first time I am experiencing this. But they didn’t inform me in due time; as far as I am concerned, an hour was just stolen from me. Because I passed through the hour in my sleep, and sleep is for the weak, and I could have done so much with the hour in daylight - it was daylight savings after all.
So if my math is right, I will have -ve 2 hours in my account by the next year. 2 hours of my life is just GONE. Somebody took it, and I don’t even know who to complain to!
And this is valuable, okay, something called time value of … time in this case. I could have been working, and this is one hour of my hourly wages. I am not working, but I could have been. This hour sometime in the future would be worth much more after my six promotions, but now it is gone. In some ways, it is impossible to attach a value to the hour I have lost.
And for what, daylight savings? I have looked it up; I spent a couple of hours researching what is happening. It is because of capitalism. I am kidding; it is due to energy conservation: because it gets darker earlier, we have to start turning on our lights earlier. That is a huge waste of energy.
That makes little sense.
For one, the amount of energy we lose is insane everywhere else. My roommate has a leak in the showerhead, and maintenance elected to straight up replace the entire bath unit. Just saying. Also, isn’t it compensated by the time we spend in electricity in the morning prepping for work? Overall, we are still saving energy as a country? But no. The companies are losing money (during the evenings). Turns out it was capitalism after all.
For people who really want to work in daylight, change your schedules? It can’t be that hard - Start your day at 9; winters start at 8. Easy, right? So easy. But no, the whole country needs to abide.
Who is responsible for this daylight robbery? Who do I sue? I was promised I can sue to get reparations. All the lawyers have laughed me out the door, saying the defendant is the federal government, and I gotta just suck it up.
This is unacceptable, man. Booooooooo.