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Many younger programmers wouldn't want to get into mainframe Cobol programming because of the almost compulsory requirement to provide after-hours support duties in most of these jobs. Many managers find it easier to let programmers get woken up at night to fix the problems instead of allowing them to prevent the problems from occuring beforehand during the daytime. Years of getting woken up at 3 in the morning to fix those types of production problems tends to make many people look for other lines of work. The people who do stay employed doing after-hours support are often the ones who deliberately put the problems into the code during the daytime, generating those money-making callouts. US businesses with some India-based programmers will utilize them to fix those overnight problems because of the time zone difference.