> Well, there is this problem with all support and maintenance tasks: if you do everything perfectly, no one notices. It takes you leaving (or a threat of you l

> Well, there is this problem with all support and maintenance tasks: if you do everything perfectly, no one notices. It takes you leaving (or a threat of you leaving) for people to realize that your contributions are important to the operation. I'm not sure I follow. If threatening to quit is sufficient in making your work visible, then your work should've been recognized to begin with. And if it takes you quitting for people to notice things falling apart, then the threat wouldn't be enough regardless. If people came out of the wood-works to ask you not to leave, it means you were doing good work that people saw, but you weren't sufficiently rewarded for.