Nic, you should never worry about venting, instead you should actually use the word "Vent" in your title, as often people do when venting. This is text based, so it comes with no emotion. Venting can be easily interpreted for sympathy, absolutely. Topics like this help new members understand how to best vent without looking like sympathy, being to ensure the words are clearly used in headings and even text, ie. begin the vent with something like, "I need to vent this out because....."
This topic is already achieving learning for newer members. This topic is not new, do a search and you will discover. I raise this point every so often because new members arrive and fall into habits that are not new here, quite existing, though also closed down before they get out of hand. An ongoing thing really.... and no, a sticky nor FAQ does it as people just do not read everything before posting.
That is another topic though, being to get new members to reference existing threads and posts to point one another towards for ease of reading, discussion, etc... all of which has often been talked about here.
