I was pressured into relocating to a different state. On a holiday weekend I drove 6 hours home to see my family. Just as everyone was showing up I got a call f

I was pressured into relocating to a different state. On a holiday weekend I drove 6 hours home to see my family. Just as everyone was showing up I got a call from my boss that he desperately needed me on a huge outage. I retreat to a spare room and get on the call. There doesn’t seem to be much for me to actually do. At one point he asked me to do a vlookup in Excel, but someone else took care of it, as they were already managing the spreadsheet. The boss told me I should be in the office the next day, as there would be a lot of cleanup to do. So once I got off the call I drove 6 hours home. 12 hours in the car for maybe 2 hours of seeing the family. The next day I walk into the office and the ops team asks, “what are you doing here? There’s nothing for you to do, go home.” Holiday weekend killed, family time pushed off for another 6 months until the next holiday worth the 12 hour drive, all for some optics and being available if they needed me, when they didn’t actually need me. The worst on-call is the on-call that never should have happened, because your boss doesn’t understand what you do and has no boundaries.