Thank you. It felt good to deactivate all of his shit lol.

I’m glad you got out of the helpdesk trenches. Being a tech support grunt is harrowing. I have a mild breakdown about once a quarter, but that’s been a thing since my college days (yes I’m in therapy lol)

I don’t mind talking on the phone because I make a lot of calls outside of work. I just hate people being absolute idiots and being proud of not knowing how to do the most basic shit. Got a ticket from a client asking to help a different user connect her new mouse to her computer. It was just a wired mouse. That was the start of 2025’s Q3 breakdown.

I mean, I enjoy the work a lot. It’s the people I don’t like. The worst part is that I’m really damn good at this job, the users adore me, and I am somehow very productive. So now I’m dealing with being important on top of everything else.

I’m not internal IT either. I work at an MSP, so every day I am guaranteed to see a new horror and interact with some of the worst specimens of humankind.

Think the worst thing I’ve experienced at this job was the time I called a dude and he spent the whole 45 min call sexually harassing and fetishizing me and begging me to marry him. I fixed his computer, threw up because I was so disgusted, then told my boss. My boss reviewed the call, which the user knew was recorded because I told him so when he answered. My boss was like “what the fuck. I’m so sorry he did that” And sent the recording to the big boss, who responded to me in the same way before sending it to HR of that dude’s company. Dude was fired immediately. I got to deactivate his stuff and HR of that company personally apologized to me.

I would leave this kinda job, but I have insanely good benefits, make more money than I should at this stage in my career, and I am full time remote. It’s kinda hard to top this shit, esp with how the US is right now. I’ve accepted that I’m here for the long haul.

And I can’t even help myself as much as I need 🥲

My one history teacher in high school drank vodka from a water bottle when he was teaching about the Holocaust. He drank more the days he showed us uncensored concentration camp liberation vids. Nobody said a damn thing about it because he deserved to get a lil blitzed for enduring those videos in every class of the day for a week.

He showed them to us because he thought it was very important that we know the awful, ugly, disturbing truth about what happened so it doesn’t happen again.

Guess the rest of the US didn’t have that sort of history lesson.

cries in helpdesk technician

I truly went into the wrong part of tech.

This is more like physical therapy than chiropracty. There’s no actual cracking or popping of joints. It’s called chiropracty by most folks because it’s simpler. I’ve never had a people chiropractor do proper body work and stretching on me ever.

The vets recommend this stuff for horses, too, so it isn’t quack science. Each vet, at least the ones I know, have chiropractors they work with.

I was very hesitant about the whole practice until I saw it being done and saw how great it was for the critters

Aw thanks for the kind words! It means a lot to me! I’m so glad Sandy has made you happy!

Same! He’s great.

Oh he is. I can’t wait until the other kitten grow up so he can play with them. He was a litter of 1, so he only has adult cats to play with. He’s learning how to play with people.

Thank you! It’s been such a journey but so worth it. One of the hardest but most gratifying things I’ve ever done. Now that she’s in good shape, we gotta get her manners and training back to what they used to be years ago.

She looked AWFUL a year ago. She was so underweight and weak that she was going to die if I didn’t get her living conditions and diet changed immediately. Moved her to a new barn and got her on some good feed and increased her supplements and she’s back to great health now. Took so much, sweat, tears, money, and a little blood to get her in good condition. My profile has her whole saga going back like 2 years

I’m sorry your dad had to get rid of his horse. It’s never easy.

These speedruns are my fave social media trend. It’s so ridiculous and the energy is great

Yes

She’ll be 27 this year. She sure as heck don’t act like it tho lol. People think she late teens to early twenties when they see her strutting around like she’s hot shit lol

There’s one dark orange one, one gray one, and one that’s light orange. I am def gonna call one Crouton once they’re old enough to be handled. They were still a lil wet when their mama showed them to me today.

He was the first kitten born this year at the barn where I keep my horse, Sandy. I’m trying to tame Broccoli Cheddar so he can be my helper around the barn.

It’s going okay lol. He let me hold him today and we played and he kept trying to sneak up on me.

Yes! There’s also a brand new litter of kittens that should start running around relatively soon.

I didn’t see any injuries or bugs bites or anything. This is a common thing with horses, especially older ones. There’s a number of things that could cause it. The biggest contenders I can see causing this for her are: rolling, kicking at another horse, and running like a dingus.

Yeah. It’s very different than people chiropractors. It is body work and stretching and massage to get things back into place. It’s expensive, but it’ll be worth it.

I’m almost 29 and we got a new guy at work who is 23 a few months ago and the age difference is just barely large enough for us to not understand pop culture references from childhood.