Today, at 11 a.m. my time, I’m supposed to receive what should be – better be – the last call from the phone support provider contractor, to get our main switchboard changed over from a desktop computer to a laptop.
And I have no idea what time the agent will call.
Yes, no idea. None. He could call at 11 a.m. as scheduled on Friday. And I hear you now, over there, asking, Well, duh, dude, why wouldn’t he call when he’s supposed to?
Because, O Reader, when that appointment was made, the disaster that is Daylight Savings Time wasn’t in effect yet. That happened at 2 a.m. US time on Sunday morning, depriving all decent people of an hour’s sleep and peace.
The service provider company is located in Sophia, Bulgaria. They don’t move their clocks until March 27 at 3 a.m. local time. So they’re still on standard time there.
That means he’s still on standard time. Last week when we spoke, we had the commonality of being on standard time, but now, I’m not sure if the agent will take the change into account. If he even knows when the time changed in the US. (I had to look it up for Bulgaria; why would they have ours committed to memory?)
So now I await the phone call from the agent, any time between the writing of this post and our allotted time at 11 a.m. But I fully suspect he’s going to call me at 10 a.m. my time because he isn’t aware of the time change.
This is one more reason why DST doesn’t work. I’ve never liked it, and I probably never will. And experiencing jet lag without ever leaving home is BS of the highest order. I’m tired, I’m sick of this, and I hope someone has the courage and conviction to do away with it someday before I die.
So, I gotta run. I’m expecting a call that shouldn’t come for an hour but will.
Happy friggin’ Monday, eh?
-jdt-
En*DANE*gered 
Is it true that the state of Indiana does not employ DST? If so, maybe a move can be in the cards for the clan.
Not anymore. Arizona now has the last bastion of un-moving clocks in the US.
From my understanding of Indiana, all you really need to acclimatize yourself is:
– a written declaration stating your love for college basketball
– learn all the words to John Mellencamp’s Rain on the Scarecrow
– figure out what the heck a ‘hooser’ is
Actually, it’s “Hoosier” – as in, “Hoosier cabinet”. Other than that, with a little help from Google, I should be good to go. 🙂
…but, like I said, Indiana’s fell in step with the other drones back in ’06. *Sigh*
Goodness, it’s one of those things, those “unintended consequences” that are never thought about before a thing is implemented. Why can’t we just have one time, one standard time, for every time zone, that’s always the same? Why is that so hard? It used to be that way and the world functioned just fine, absolutely fine, without governments messing things up.
Jet lag from getting up in the morning. It’s absolutely stupid. Just plain stupid. 😦
Yeah. If someone wants to borrow an hour of my time for 6 months, I want them to pay INTEREST on it. We shouldn’t just get an extra hour of sleep when daylight savings time ends. It should be, like, an hour and a half!
No doubt! And it’s not six months here in the US, Spark – it goes from March to November now!
Oh, okay, I didn’t actually count. Canada changed its/our DST schedule to match the US’s a few years ago, to make doing cross-border business easier.
Bulgaria??? What kind of company outsources critical stuff like that to Bulgaria? I can understand a call center being outsourced to places like India (had contact with a very nice person from that continent when I was having computer issues) but something like that makes absolutely no sense.
Apparently, Siemens is the kind of company that outsources that stuff to Bulgaria. Since Siemens is a German company, it’s actually not a big stretch. 🙂 And most of the contact I have with customer service representatives from the sub-continent is pleasant, but not always. And I still find that makes less sense than keeping the work at home, but I’m retro that way. Probably always will be. 🙂