An Open Letter to America’s President and Congress [rant]

Dear Congress and George W. Bush,

Fuck you. Fuck you and your dumb ass Energy Policy Act of 2005. Do you have any idea the headaches you cause across the globe now because of this dumb ass idea?

For those of us who don’t work solely within the collapsing economic bubble of the United States of America’s borders, changing Daylight Saving without the rest of the world on board severely screws up anyone who does business in both the US and anywhere else in the world. Let me clarify.

I spend at least an hour (at least) every day during this week trying to sort out what time my meetings are scheduled for. For example, a weekly project call might occur every Friday at 4pm in London aka 8am in Los Angeles, but during this lovely week in October, the shit hits the fan. 4pm in London is now 9am in LA…but who has to rearrange their calendar? Where was the audio conference scheduled? If it’s in the US, the rest of the world has to call in an hour earlier. If it was scheduled in the rest of world, the US should join an hour later. But of course, more of my business colleagues are in the US, so it’s easier for us to change, but then I have to confirm the meeting times with everyone then reschedule all of the conflicts with my non-US meetings. Confused yet? NO SHIT SHERLOCK. Even after spending hours with my brain exploding trying to keep everything straight, a good 25% of the participants can’t join b/c of scheduling conflicts.

Mr. Bush, Senators, and Representatives, do you have any idea how much fucking time I waste doing this? And not just me, but EVERYONE IN EVERY BUSINESS THAT WORKS INTERNATIONALLY?!?!?! Any savings you think you might make with people turning their fucking heat on an hour later in the morning, or whatever dumb ass reasoning you had (made up) for this piece of shit Act, is immediately gone by the loss of productivity as millions of people try to rearrange their schedules to suit your fucked up new law.

You’re all fucking idiots and I hope you die.

Sincerely,
The Rest of the World