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Have a discussion. Present your case and listen to your manager's response. I can't speak for all managers, but I've never met a reasonable manager who wanted to drive our a good engineer even in this economy. Perhaps there was a misunderstanding along the way? Don't listen to the people who presume all managers are bad, have bad motive, want to screw you for stochastic reasons, or are 100% willing to execute their manager's bad plan. A lot of managers are ex engineers just like you that want to build great products, enjoy work and their engineering brains still exist and don't want to be a*h*les.