Polar bears, for one. Their politicians for two.

Kinda. There was this guy who was somehow related to the owner of the company. He got a new laptop, and wanted me to install some stuff on it.

At the time, one tech always had to be in the call queue, and that tech was me. I told him, “hey. I’m stuck in queue and I’m on a call. You can either bring me your laptop so I can install it when I’m done, you can wait until I can get out of queue, or you can put in a ticket and maybe someone can remote in and take care of it.”

He went and told my boss’s boss that I wouldn’t install his shit unless he put in a ticket (a thing we were explicitly not allowed to say).

Grand boss calls me in, let’s dude tell his side of the story, then asks if it was true. My vision goes red for the first time since middle school, and I said, “absolutely not,” and recounted what actually happened. He says, thank you, you’re dismissed.

I go outside and smoke half a pack of cigarettes before my boss’s boss comes outside and says, “thanks, man. I was looking for rope to hang that asshole with. You’re good.”

This is one of my favorite things the Internet has ever produced.

If it’s not now, it will in the future.

If someone is asking strangers for help to stop a behavior, you should believe that the behavior is an issue.

Would you ask this if the question was about alcohol?

This is just shifting addictions to another unhealthy parasocial relationship.

Someone with this type of issue needs to shift their focus to something different than idolizing a person, fictional or not.

Or anything involving the outside world. Nature walks, bird watching, geocaching, etc. Doesn’t need to be anything competitive or strenuous.

Yeah, my job didn’t pay for any of that fancy stuff. This was a wmic command.

I’d say it’s more accurate to say there’s no more conservative party.

Make sure you have a new job lined up first, because the job market is fucked.

It was a civil rights violation.

Ditto. If you don’t work from home, it’s likely you just miss it.

The whole reason he ran for president is because Obama made fun of him at the White House correspondents dinner.

Yeah, he doesn’t have the same loyalty from the cult that Trump does. No one is afraid of him.

America has never been a melting pot. Every new group of immigrants to this country have been horribly abused and hate crimed. Not just brown people either.

It’s not necessarily abuse to not react strongly to your child having a minor injury, but that could be a reason why. It could also be you learned to mask your pain to avoid further abuse.

I also have a stupid high pain tolerance (like making it through my vasectomy without anesthesia while only saying ouch under my breath, because my surgeon didn’t believe I could still feel everything), but my mom knew about this from her masters degree and applied it to me.

I just say, “Let’s go ahead and try it again so I can check that box off.”

It really is true that our response to pain is in part a learned response. If your parents overreacted to your minor injuries, you’ll learn that’s how you’re supposed to respond to minor injuries.

My record was 18 months from a user who swore they restarted 3 times.

Once I had a user swear up and down they restarted the computer 3 times, and asked if I thought they were an idiot.

I said, “No, I’m not saying you’re an idiot, but your computer is saying it’s boot time was 18 months ago.”

Not if it starts killing off plants.