u/kahlyse

The bar at the top of Preview has been green since I’ve been in HRIS. Over the weekend it has decided to become a slightly brighter orange than Sandbox. They basically look the same. Just spent 5 minutes trying to figure out why something was broken in “Sandbox” when it was working in Production….I miss the green already. 🤦🏻‍♀️

What does everyone think about these? Do you have a preference? Do you think they’ll be valued the same or do you think one will be worth more?

Personally, I’m torn. I really like both of them and I’ve been picking up as many as I can from markets.

I have an employee in HR/Benefits who is going to job shadow me (HRIS Manager) for a day. Any recommendations on what to show them? I’d like to show her some cool stuff but not overwhelm her. :)

She’s likely not going to be in HRIS in the future, but she’s shadowing all of the division’s areas as part of her management development training.

We need to require a Date of Birth on the Change Beneficiary BP. I tried a simple validation of Date of Birth - Proposed is blank, but that is triggering an error when I create a trust, even though that field doesn’t exist for trusts.

Any advice, or has anyone else been able to do this? I’ve tried playing around with it a little bit and I’m not sure what else to attempt.

I witnessed a lesson at my barn that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. Reddit is going to tear this apart. I would too. It’s not okay.

I’m newer to horses but the more I experience, the more I realize not necessarily how much I know, but how much others don’t.

There was a lesson yesterday with one horse who is a saint. She doesn’t spook, super safe, a complete beginner can get on her and ride and she won’t do something nasty. Great lesson horse. Anyway it’s a split lesson between 5 and 8 year old girls. The 5 year old rode first.

She’s five years old. Sweet, adorable little girl, but she just isn’t old enough to be riding. She can’t steer the horse, she can’t kick the horse to ask it to go forwards. She can’t groom the horse. She can’t mount the horse…So the whole time she rides, the horse wants to stop because…well, it’s a horse. The mother of the girls chases the horse with a crop to get the horse to trot…every lesson. It’s bad. Like I was riding a few weeks ago and my horse almost ran into her because she’s in the middle of the arena in the way. Instructor said not to do it, but doesn’t actually make her stop. Non-horse people shouldn’t be in the arena at all when horses are out (this wasn’t even the only horse in the arena-the others were young/green). Accident waiting to happen.

So as the mom continues to chase the horse, the lesson horse goes from walk straight to a canter, the girl falls off and starts crying. The mom starts crying. The horse did nothing wrong. It was actually a pretty controlled lope. It could have been so much worse. Little girl was scared but ended up being okay.

Common sense. This never should have happened. The mom never should have been in a situation where it was possible to do what she was doing. The little girl should be on lead line lessons only. And I shouldn’t have been in a situation where I could have said something, but it wasn’t my place to do so as just a boarder. The instructor with decades of experience should have stepped in. I’m over here stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Then the older sister rides, and the younger one was wandering around the barn and walked directly behind one of the green horses that is known to kick, and has kicked out multiple times this month alone. No one was watching her.

I am really struggling today.

My horse refuses to back off the trailer. This diva will find a way to spin and jump off it. I want to work on this but I don’t have a trailer so we are going to work on fundamentals somewhere else until someone gets a trailer out for a show, then practice there.

We have a ledge at the end of the aisle that’s maybe 5 inches tall. It’s not big, but it’s enough to start practicing there. This horse refused. I backed him up to it just fine but once one foot went over the edge, he zoomed forward and refused from then on out. Head down to his chest giving to pressure but feet planted. I tried walking him up it and backing, that was a no. I tried walking just his front two feet and backing, that’s a yes. We can do that without a problem.

How do I build up to the back feet? I spent about ten minutes on it but 120 pounds against one thousand isn’t going to win. I went back to just the front feet and ended on that note.

Once we get good at this, I’ll work on it with a stall (no ledge, but smaller space with a roof), and then a trailer.

This is too good not to share. On my main account, my first IUH was a Chestnut Mossy Andy. One of the least liked horses in the game. But it was an IUH, oh well, and it was back when they were harder to get.

I started an alt. I just caught its first IUH. Red Chestnut Leafy Andy.

Come on!!!! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Well I know how to bend my arms, but my body does not want to bend them when I’m riding.

Any tips for keeping your arms bent versus holding them straight forward? I feel like a beginner asking for this advice but I just watched some videos of myself riding and I look ridiculous. It’s better at a lope, but my posting trot needs work. It’s bending my elbows and also keeping my arms down versus wanting to reach out straight.

If anyone has tips I will take them!! And yes I already take lessons and this is something he tells me to fix every time I ride.

I think it would be fun to ride my horse bareback. I’ve done it a couple times on other horses but never with him. I’d like to improve my balance and “stickiness” too.

I’ve had him for a couple years. His previous owners roped off him and there’s a good chance he’s never been ridden bareback before. Any advice for getting him used to it? I ordered a pad and figured we would start there. Maybe a little more comfortable for him that way, and for me.

Pad Link: https://a.co/d/0fOtowJW

I was looking into sunglasses with cameras inside them. Has anyone had luck with these for recording their rides? Any recommendations?

It would just be for fun.