The Quiet Displacement

The Slack channel was quiet. The customer went live. No escalations. No questions. No one asking for my read on anything.

I checked the logs. Everything worked. The team had anticipated an edge case I would have flagged, handled it, and moved on. They didn’t need to loop me in. They didn’t want to.

I should have felt proud. Instead, I felt strangely left out.

This is the part no one warns you about.