[Beltalowda]

The conflation between "not a morning person" and "lazy" is completely ridiculous, and seems to prevail mostly in countries with a "protestant work ethic" background.

I've literally been fired from jobs where I was one of the better performers for the singular reason for struggling to be there at 8am every day, and where this didn't matter at all for the position if I started at 8am or 10am (for some positions it obviously does matter). That I often worked longer than many others didn't seem to matter; people take it as a marker and that's that.

5:30am is utterly ridiculous; that's just the middle of the night.

[recursive]

> 5:30am is utterly ridiculous; that's just the middle of the night.

There's actually a time that's generally closest to the middle of the night as measured by the start and end of the night. In fact, it's shortened from that very phrase "middle of the night". It's called midnight.

In summer around here, 5:30am is approximately the end of the night, as measured by the sun.