I got my cell phone ringing today morning at 5.30. ‘Good morning Joseph’, my team lead was on the other side, ‘we have a production problem. I want you to come over here at the earliest. If you want I will arrange for a car pick up’. If I take a car pick up then coming back will be difficult, so I refused the pick up and said that I will be there in an hour. A quick shower and then on to the road.

It is always difficult to clean up other’s shit. Add to it, there are no comments explaining what the code is. It took me sometime before I got the logic. Once the lousy logic was understood, it was easy to fix. Around 11, the shit was clean.

What I found strange is, there is no please or thank you. Also when there is a need, the firm goes out of its way in arranging a car pick up. But when it is over, you are just left on your own. The only satisfaction I get is, I have what it takes to put up with the shit and clean it as well.