[throwhauser]

After-hours on-call is a thing that needs to be destroyed. A company that is sufficiently large that the CEO doesn't get woken up for emergencies needs to have shifts in other timezones to handle them. I don't know why people put up with it.

[bckr]

Part of it is a culture that discourages complaining about after hours work.

There's an expectation that everyone is a night owl and that night time emergency work is fun, and that these fires are to be expected.

Finally, engineers seem to get this feeling of being important because they wake up and work at night. It's really a form of insanity.