Returning From Vacation

Senior devs come back from vacation to 99+ unread Slack/Teams messages and just want to end it all. Meanwhile, juniors return to a measly 2 notifications and casually flex with "Wow, must not be very busy." The brutal truth? Seniors are tagged in everything—architectural decisions, production fires, code reviews, random questions about that legacy system they touched once in 2017. They're the human equivalent of Stack Overflow for the entire team. Juniors? Nobody's asking them to approve PRs or explain why the database migration failed at 3 AM. They're living in blissful ignorance while seniors drown in @channel mentions. Plot twist: those 2 messages the junior got were probably both from HR about mandatory training.