I chuckled, then cried inside reading this, so true.

But there is something to add to this, I got burned out, took a mini-sabbatical and came back a rockstar with a pay raise.

I guess the invisible work became visible in my absence. :-)

An additional side-benefit, I became human again.

When my coworkers bitch about being underpreciated I tell them to take a week off and find out if they're right. if everybody isn't on the same page it's time to move on.