Ask HN: How to handle being sidelined gracefully? Our team's engineering and project managers are based overseas. This year I've been acting as the local manager as well as a developer on some projects. The company has recently hired an additional project manager overseas who has already started excluding me from project meetings. Another project manager has been hired to work in the local office and is starting next week. I get the feeling I'm now meant to be sitting in the corner with my headphones on. more