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Oh. My. GOD! The TRAUMA of returning to Windows after being seduced by macOS's sleek interface is just UNBEARABLE! Five minutes of Apple's polished perfection and suddenly your Windows desktop feels like trying to use a stone tablet with a chisel! The cognitive whiplash is so severe you might just need to dramatically collapse in the dirt and question all your life choices! The OS equivalent of tasting filet mignon and then being forced to eat a gas station sandwich! 💀

The universal scapegoat of the tech world strikes again! When your Windows crashes, your Microsoft Office subscription expires unexpectedly, or that weird bug appears after an update — just blame Bill Gates. Never mind that he hasn't actively run Microsoft since 2008. The best part? This excuse works equally well for non-tech people trying to explain why their printer isn't working and senior developers who can't figure out why their legacy code is suddenly failing. It's the tech equivalent of "the dog ate my homework" — except everyone nods in understanding.

CONGRATULATIONS on your instant promotion to senior dev! One minute you're just minding your business, writing questionable code, and the next minute BAM! Your mentor abandons ship and suddenly you're expected to know where all the bodies are buried in the codebase! That thousand-yard stare says it all - you're now drowning in legacy code that NO ONE documented, fielding questions from management who think you're the expert, and chugging coffee like it's the only thing keeping your imposter syndrome at bay. Welcome to tech leadership, sweetie! Hope you like being tagged in 3AM production emergency Slack messages!

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