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Ramblings of a Sleep-Deprived Caffeine Addict

I have no idea why you bother reading but don't stop X)

Angry-Stunned

Friday, November 20, 2009 @ 3:25 PM

It's 2.26am and I'm pissed, very very PISSED.

My business class team members are a whole bunch of hateful people. I have never ever felt so terribly angry towards anyone before. So this is the story:

We have this strategy report due tomorrow (technically, it's today) and we had a late start. So, knowing that I will be extremely busy during the dateline period, I started the research on my own (with Jonathan's help) and laid out all the essential points into a word document and sent it to them. In the e-mail, I also stated that I wanted to start doing the most difficult sections first so the other easier sections will be their responsibility. Hoping for an instant reply, which they normally would give judging by the previous assignment, (which btw, went pretty smoothly, hence, I am totally flabbergasted with their attitudes right now), I waited but no reply ever reached me.

Hence, we met up yesterday night and to my surprise, or should I say not to my surprise, none of them even looked at the word document. Whatever 'research' they have done was bullocks, for they just copied some information from the company's website (our report is basically a swot analysis which is supposed to be easy). Also, I gave them a printout of my word document but they just set it aside without even glancing through! To make matters worse, none of them had any idea about what the assignment asks for!!!! This girl keeps wanting to add unnecessary information when our number of pages is extremely limited. Also, there is this guy who is really the definition of pain-in-the-arse. He kept mocking me by laughing at everything I have said like I'm talking nonsense. Even the girl (let's call her N) said that he was being mean. Anyways, it wasn't a big deal for me but both pain-in-the-arse and another guy (S) were busy talking nonsense and surfing you-tube. The last member of the team is this clueless english major girl (J) who was absent in almost all of our meetings and till now, is completely clueless about our current assignment.
The meeting ended and we all agreed with our responsibilities. I volunteered to do the swot analysis but girl N insisted that she and girl J would finish both the swot analysis and the strategy analysis. I was like, okay, so I would write on the executive summary and the company's strategy then.

Just now, when we had another meeting, the swot analysis was incomplete AND the strategy analysis was untouched. So, in the process of the meeting, girl N finished the swot analysis and since we couldn't stay at that place (J's apartment) for long cuz she has some partying to do (wtf right) we had to leave in less than 2 hrs. I then suggest that pain-in-the-arse and S to finish half of the strategy analysis while girl N do the other half. I wanted to do the conclusion but no, girl N INSISTED that she does the conclusion too. Wanting to trust her for once, I agreed. So, my job was to help Jonathan to do the in-text citations and referencing. Before we leave, we ALL AGREED that everyone would send their work to me and jonathan so we could complete the referencing and formatting.

HOWEVER, after waiting until 12am, I did not receive anything from anyone. So, I called girl N first and she said: why not we both do the half of the strategy analysis and compare? To tired to argue, I agreed and finished at 1. At the same time, I called S to ask about his progress. INTERESTINGLY enough, he said he had finished and sent his part to pain-in-the-arse who will then join their parts together. Earlier on, I have contacted pain-in-the-arse and told him specifically to send me the document so that I can cite it. MORE INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, when I contacted girl N to ask her whether to do the conclusion or not cuz I had a feeling she's not doing anything, telling her I'm just waiting for pain-in-the-arse to send me his completed work, she told me that he had already SENT IT TO HER!

!@#$%^&*(

I was rly utterly speechless at that point. It did not make ANY sense at all to me. It still doesn't. SIGH. To make the long story short, jonathan and i sent the incomplete document to girl N who claims that she will add the work from pain-in-the-arse and guy S, and her conclusion herself and hand it in today. Oh, I forgot to mention, my business class is in another university down the street and these guys are all from that university. Since Jonathan and I have class tomorrow, we can't hand the assignment in. So we HAVE to depend on either one of them.

I have no idea how she's gonna achieve consistent formatting when so much is involved. Page numberings, reference numberings, font styles....and she's a tech-noob.

I'm missing a lot minor details about these guys but that's the big picture. I still can't fathom how these guys are thinking!! By slowing me and jonathan down, none of us would benefit! I really really am stunned and angry right now, but after writing this, I'm just amazed by these people.

BIG SIGH. Going off to bed.

I pray that none of you guys will meet such people as group members.
Love,
ash

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