Sunday, April 01, 2007

groupmates from hell!!!!

i really don't like working in a group, especially when the people you're with don't share the same amount of dedication that you have for a certain project. i hate it even more when people decide to turn into megabitches when it's cruch time.

take my art studies group for example. I am left with 26 hours to produce a written output and a CD of a tour plan about death and burial practices in the Philippines. We divided the work among ourselves "equally" with 5 members. I was given the task of researching on coffin makers in manila. and since i missed the actual tour yesterday, i volunteered to compile everything and burn the CD, out of the goodness of my heart just to show them that I am a team player and I don't just bum around.

WRONG MOVE!!!!!

Of course, some of them took advantage of this and declared their own summer holidays already. Only three people have sent their parts to me and almost all are incomplete.

I texted Megabitch1. "hey, thanks for sending your part early but it's in the wrong format and it's incomplete. send me the maps and list of resource persons asap."

Megabitch1 replied, "sorry, i'm our of town. just text our other groupmates. besides, i did ALL the reporting last time."

I swear she put the word "ALL" in big,fat capital letters. Since it was just ten in the morning, I decided not to call her up and yell obscenities. What the sammilbee was she talking about???!!! She might have done "ALL" of the verbal reporting, but guess who gave the contents of the said report??!!! By the way, she was the same bitchy person who told me to plan the tour ahead cos she doesn't want to waste gas again. Yeah,ooh cos she drives a nice car.

What the fuck??! A final project will and shall require a person to lose something - be it time, brain cells, money and yes, you megabitch1, GAS!!!!

Don't worry, after all this I can give you some of your gas back, Just tell me if you want me to put it in your car or pour it on your head.

Then megabitch2 texted and told me that I would have to wait until lunchtime tomorrow cos she wasn't done with her part yet. How the hell does she expect me to produce a CD in an instant without her part of the report??!

I told her, I could just send her all of our parts, compiled, edited and formatted. She'll just have to insert her part and burn the CD herself.

You know what megabitch2 just told me??!!

"No way! I'm in Laguna right now. I can't go all the way to UP tomorrow just to pass that."

I can't believe you just told me that, you megabitch2,you!!!!!
You know what, I live in Cavite and I will go to school tomorrow to pass "our" FINAL PROJECT.

How can some people be all inconsiderate in such a blunt manner??!! She could have told me she was sick or someone in the family is ill or she lost their home in a fire or suddenly a civil war broke out in Laguna, and I would lovingly tell her that it's okay. But to tell me "No way!", this is ultimate proof for being the groupmate from hell. She will not do it just because she won't.

Why do I do this to myself? Why do I always come to the rescue??!! Well, I can't afford to have low grades. And don't fucking tell me you really don't have time for this because this isn't your major.

I hope we won't be groupmates ever. And I am seriously hoping that UP professors will stop giving out groupworks, because seriously, I am not learning anything from them. You expect us to learn teamwork and cooperation and all that crap but it's not happening.

Note to self, if possible: go solo!
Or, clearly inform partners/groupmates that you are positively capable of leaving permanent scars on their happy faces.

Grrrr!!! I will hunt you down!!!!

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