My grouchy boss is grudgingly giving me the first several letters of "Ninja". So, he is rather amusingly walking around responding to my ninja assertions with a strongly voiced "ni" vaguely reminiscent of Monty Python. To cement my ninja status, I managed to automate the several hotfixes and registry changes necessary to apply the profile fixes. I also included a vbscript that wipes out only student profiles. So in short, my fix cleans the machine of damaged profiles without reimaging, applies registry changes to disabled IPv6, and installs two windows group policy hotfixes. The only thing I have to do manually at this point is run the high lsass utilization hotfix on each of our DCs. Granted, there are 50+ DCs, but that shouldn't be too difficult. The only thing the technicians have to do is manage to correctly remove the teacher profiles if necessary after doing a thorough backup. Will they do this? Maybe. Can they do it correctly? Even less likely, but I can't follow all 26 of them around and hold their hands, nor would they let me since most of them hate me.
Now, Laney, why would the majority of 26 people possibly hate you? Because the vast majority of them are so lazy it should be criminal. The laziest of them are also intractably stupid. A goodly portion of those also dislike the fact that I was promoted very quickly and I am significantly younger than they are, despite the fact I was the most qualified applicant. They drive me crazy because it's practically impossible to fire them and frankly most of them need to be fired. If you don't know how to find an IP address, you should not be a "technician" of any sort. You especially should not be on the same pay scale as me. It's insulting and infuriating. I'm totally fine with people telling me they don't know something that isn't basic, in fact usually I like it. The problem comes in when it's something fifth graders know how to do or something you can easily google. If you don't know how to install a complicated piece of software, please ask. I'll be happy to make you instructions with big ass pictures and arrows. If you don't know how to rename a computer (when there is a tool in a folder on the desktop to do it that you've been informed of repeatedly in training), get the hell out of my office.
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