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If the company wanted to undervalue my work, then I decided they would finally see everything I had been carrying. I agreed to train my replacement with a calm professionalism that my boss mistook for acceptance. On the first day, I placed two stacks of papers on the desk. One contained the official job description. The other was much larger—an outline of everything I had actually been doing: crisis management, system fixes, client issues, and responsibilities that were never written down but always expected. My boss’s expression changed immediately as he realized how much of the department depended on invisible labor.
