Post by peterh on Dec 16, 2005 23:51:15 GMT
What a damned week. I have to vent so bear with me!
I cannot remember when I last needed a weekend as much as this one. I've been extremely busy at school this last week and have been up to aproximatly 3 am. and up by 7.45 most of the week just to get the writing for the group project done. I've been behind schedule due to my mothers illness but, of course, I've sacrifised everything else to catch up. It's my responsibility to do so!
Now, this is a group project and there's five people in my group. One member has been away quite a lot and hasn't contributed to anything but the web design, which we've only begun yesterday. This means he's done absolutely NOTHING for four weeks. That's a burden, and I wanted to throw him out two weeks ago. For some reason my group members didn't feel the same way even though he had already let us down three times before that. So now, in the final stages the complaining starts, especially from one person who feels it's all unfair that he gets to do our website, since it's the only thing he wanted to contribute to from the beginning. Well - what can I do? I was right two weeks ago. Democrasy sucks sometimes!
We're doing a pretty extensive report for this project and we're a bit behind our schedule (though we WILL make it) so I've been working overtime and writing stuff certain other members should be doing. Elisabeth was supposed to get some stuff done by Wednesday but she didn't due to personal reasons. Same thing happened Thursday - she was homesick and didn't finish her stuff but promised to have it finished by Friday. Her and I were going to analyse the last few things we needed for our report today and write it. Guess what - she didn't finish a thing. Wednesday she'd wrote all of three lines of her text and today it wasn't much better! I got pissed - we've entered an agreement to do our respective writing - a group contract we signed at the beginning actually. She didn't see it as a big thing, and neither did Britta - I was just being a dick apparently!
The thing is - we're in [Censored]ing time trouble here. There's plenty loose ends and I keep reminding people we need to get things done. I have the overview of things that the others apparently lack! But I'm talking to deaf ears. elisabeth and Britta has the attitude that things will go okay and we have plenty of time so why not wait till Monday to finish the rest. It's a lost cause. I've tried motivating them, I've tried persuasing and finally I got pissed. It changed nothing.
The only member I really trust is Michael. we worked together in the last project, along with Elisabeth, and decided to work together again,. Michael did NOT want to work with Elisabeth again but through freak circumstances we ended up working with her again. He thought me to be very harsh on Elisabeth today too, until I told him that elisabeth promised me to finish her work twice. Then he agreed with my stance. Michael is too afraid of conflict though, that's his personality. I'm all alone in this, unfortunaly!
Funny thing - the only members who've never been late are me and Michael. Britta and Elisabeth has been late by halt an hour (at least) four times or more in a month! That's not tolerable!
Now it's weekend and I'll have to do the analysis Elisabeth and me we're going to do. Then I have to get the writing done - all by myself. Britta isn't going to do it and she can't be persuaded. Elisabeth still has some writing to finish, and I honestly doubt she'll get it done this weekend. Michael could do it but he probably needs some leisure time this weekend. The work still has to be done though, so I'll take have the responsibility once again. If we don't get things done we won't make it. It's just damn frustrating that I have to be doing other peoples work again. It has ruined my mood and will probably ruin my weekend as much as my week was ruined.
I just need to get this project done before I go absolutely insane....Damnit all! I just want my christmas vacation!
I cannot remember when I last needed a weekend as much as this one. I've been extremely busy at school this last week and have been up to aproximatly 3 am. and up by 7.45 most of the week just to get the writing for the group project done. I've been behind schedule due to my mothers illness but, of course, I've sacrifised everything else to catch up. It's my responsibility to do so!
Now, this is a group project and there's five people in my group. One member has been away quite a lot and hasn't contributed to anything but the web design, which we've only begun yesterday. This means he's done absolutely NOTHING for four weeks. That's a burden, and I wanted to throw him out two weeks ago. For some reason my group members didn't feel the same way even though he had already let us down three times before that. So now, in the final stages the complaining starts, especially from one person who feels it's all unfair that he gets to do our website, since it's the only thing he wanted to contribute to from the beginning. Well - what can I do? I was right two weeks ago. Democrasy sucks sometimes!
We're doing a pretty extensive report for this project and we're a bit behind our schedule (though we WILL make it) so I've been working overtime and writing stuff certain other members should be doing. Elisabeth was supposed to get some stuff done by Wednesday but she didn't due to personal reasons. Same thing happened Thursday - she was homesick and didn't finish her stuff but promised to have it finished by Friday. Her and I were going to analyse the last few things we needed for our report today and write it. Guess what - she didn't finish a thing. Wednesday she'd wrote all of three lines of her text and today it wasn't much better! I got pissed - we've entered an agreement to do our respective writing - a group contract we signed at the beginning actually. She didn't see it as a big thing, and neither did Britta - I was just being a dick apparently!
The thing is - we're in [Censored]ing time trouble here. There's plenty loose ends and I keep reminding people we need to get things done. I have the overview of things that the others apparently lack! But I'm talking to deaf ears. elisabeth and Britta has the attitude that things will go okay and we have plenty of time so why not wait till Monday to finish the rest. It's a lost cause. I've tried motivating them, I've tried persuasing and finally I got pissed. It changed nothing.
The only member I really trust is Michael. we worked together in the last project, along with Elisabeth, and decided to work together again,. Michael did NOT want to work with Elisabeth again but through freak circumstances we ended up working with her again. He thought me to be very harsh on Elisabeth today too, until I told him that elisabeth promised me to finish her work twice. Then he agreed with my stance. Michael is too afraid of conflict though, that's his personality. I'm all alone in this, unfortunaly!
Funny thing - the only members who've never been late are me and Michael. Britta and Elisabeth has been late by halt an hour (at least) four times or more in a month! That's not tolerable!
Now it's weekend and I'll have to do the analysis Elisabeth and me we're going to do. Then I have to get the writing done - all by myself. Britta isn't going to do it and she can't be persuaded. Elisabeth still has some writing to finish, and I honestly doubt she'll get it done this weekend. Michael could do it but he probably needs some leisure time this weekend. The work still has to be done though, so I'll take have the responsibility once again. If we don't get things done we won't make it. It's just damn frustrating that I have to be doing other peoples work again. It has ruined my mood and will probably ruin my weekend as much as my week was ruined.
I just need to get this project done before I go absolutely insane....Damnit all! I just want my christmas vacation!