You send a message to your manager. Within seconds, they reply: "Noted." One word. No punctuation. No emoji. Nothing. And something in your chest just drops. You know, logically, it probably means nothing. But logic isn't driving right now. Your brain may run through every possible thing you could have done wrong, every interaction from the past week, every sign you might have missed. By the time your next meeting starts, you're barely holding it together, and you have no ide