Dimmed: What to Do When Your Boss Needs You to Feel Less

By David R.

You are not the problem.

You show up. You do the work. You bring ideas, preparation, experience. And somehow, slowly, you started to feel invisible. Not because of a single moment. Because of a pattern.

DIMMED is for the person carrying that weight quietly. It names what is happening - the dismissal, the invisibility, the minimization, the intellectual insult, the slow erosion of who you are - and gives it a framework you can see clearly and talk about honestly.

Then it builds your armor: how to protect yourself, document everything, find your people, and guard your identity while you are still employed.

Then it walks you through the door: the finances, the exit plan, the resignation conversation, and the strange, important first week on the other side.

Written in second person with cinematic precision and grounded in research on social pain, relational devaluation, and workplace ostracism, DIMMED reads like a conversation with the smartest friend who has been through it and wants you to be okay.

This is not a book about revenge. It is a book about return.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GVT74V21
• ISBN13: 9798254649748
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"