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When on-call partnerships break down and responsibility becomes uneven

My site reliability partner and I have been on-call together for two years and lately when systems go down he disappears for hours without explanation and I end up handling everything alone, but when I try to bring it up he acts like I'm being dramatic and I'm starting to question whether I'm the problem.

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Your partner keeps leaving you to handle everything alone, then makes you feel crazy for bringing it up.

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