I hate being on call.

First, I have to clarify I work for a software company. I don’t get paged in the same way a doctor does when there’s a medical emergency.

My situation’s worse. At the end of the day, a doctor can at least luxuriate in the feeling that they have saved a life.

That they have contributed to the preservation of humanity.

That they have done, in a word, good.

I get paged when our site, for some reason, no longer supports language translations into French.

I say this with all goodwill and harmony: screw the French!

The French don’t need translations. Most of them know English, anyway, and that’s what our website’s written in.

I always get paged at 3:14 in the morning.

As if the French have anything better to do with their time than cause problems for us Americans.

Then, fighting sleepiness, I have to........

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