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Eight of Cups
"The Quiet Resignation"
Cups · People & Team▲ Upright +1
The engineer who looked at the codebase, the roadmap, and the team dynamic, and made the clear-eyed decision to walk away. Eight of Cups is not rage-quitting — it is the quiet, considered departure of someone who knows they have outgrown this place. Respect the exit. They are not wrong.
▽ Reversed -1
The engineer who mentally quit six months ago but is still showing up, merging the minimum viable PR, and collecting a paycheck while the team slowly realizes the person sitting in standup is already gone. Nobody noticed for three weeks when they finally put in their two weeks. That is the Eight of Cups reversed.