One moment I felt like I was at the top of the world, and the next, I felt like I fell in to hell.. Why do people change their behavior or thinking or intention or whatever you wanna call it, so quickly?!? Seriously.. But funny how things have turned out.. I just thanked God for them and leave it to Him..
Anyway...
Projects are over!!! Wooo!!! Exams are here!! Boooo!!
So reluctant to start studying.. Gotta start tomorrow.. But damn, not sure if i can find the energy to get out of the house.. Gonna study alone! Or maybe wait for a study buddy to drop from heaven.. I think the latter is unlikely though..
Anyway, it was decided that my useless group project partner is sacked from the group as of the end of this semester. My other good partner cannot stand already! LOL!!
It isnt enuf that the useless guy pissed me off so badly last semester that I, me, a guy who avoids conflict, can gather so much "hatred" within myself to actually tell him off about how useless and how irresponsible he was. He ended that semester "begging" for us to partner with him for this semester. But the phrase, a leopard never changes it's spots is very apt for him.
Last semester, he tested my fire by by totally pang sehing his part of the project work. Sum how he always believes that his excuses are genuine reasons.. Cos the day before submission, he did not complete his tasks and then he attended a wedding dinner.. He tot just by offering to "help", but not actually helping in any way, would make him an ideal partner.
This semester, probably he thought he has improved tremendously or something. Now he does his work.. Sents it probably a little over our own deadline that we set. So he tot he has fulfilled his part and was a good team mate.. Cos after he sent his work on the day before submission, he just disappeared. It never crossed his mind that editing or compilation or other tasks required by the project still needed to be done. It's not his job. That is our job. His job is to sent shitty work, make a living hell for the both of us, go out and enjoy with friends, and then enjoy the grades as well.
Cos once you open up to see his work.. You'll just wish that he never should have done anything at all cos whats the point of "helping" someone, when all you did was create more problems than there was in the first place.
I'd rather from the start, I'd just branded him as useless, and the work is split between me n my other good partner, so that I feel it is my obligation to do these parts that I am assigned. Comparing that to the work split between the 3 of us, and when I got his work, I felt like I'm doing extra work. You know, sometimes perception really matters.. Perception of fairness is especially impt when marks are shared between a group.
And I now know I have a higher tolerance level compared to my other good partner.. Cos my good partner was the one who said enough is enough and told me to abandoned him next sem.
Firstly, last semester, my good partner did not work with me and the useless guy for this certain module's project, so he did not feel the "wrath" of the useless partner like I did. So if anything, I should be the one who is more pissed off than he is.
Secondly, this semester, my good partner did not work with me n the useless guy for this other module again. So he did not get to feel the pek chek-ness of editing the useless guy work. And when we 3 are finally grouped together for this other 2 modules' 3 projects, my good partner did not edit his work till the last project.
So in total I edited the useless guy's work 3 times this semester, each time, I really felt like I've lost 1 year of my life after editing his work. It's so badly written that almost every sentence, I have to take time to understand what is he saying, and then think of the correct method of phrasing the sentence, cos his engrish is so bad! So when my good partner finally edited the useless guy's work on our last project for the first time, he cannot stand! 1 time only!!! And he lost it liao.. Cant imagine what wld happened if he had edited the previous few times..
Let me give you a sample of his work:
His words:"With this scheme, can help companies who got their cash or investments held up in productivity....."
What it means:" This scheme helps companies which have cash or investments held up in productivity....
His: "Income Tax Act is some forms of formal decision or law made by government in regards to..."
Means:"The Income Tax Act is made up by the Government in the form of formal decisions or laws in regards to..."
His: "After reading a number of articles on tax sparing credit, notice that the information provided is merely copy and paste from the official website such as IRAS"
Means:"The article from the IRAS website on tax sparing credit is being used by a number of other websites as well."
I can go on and on cos he had so many bad sentences that you would think maybe it was a dog that typed out that report. You may think I'm being mean by comparing him with a dog, but the fact is a dog is more useful than he is cos I believe a dog could make me more happy. Trust me, just edit one of his work, and u'll be joining me, criticising him as well.. He used the words " copy and paste" in a report!!! WHO THE HELL USES THIS KIND OF LANGUAGE IN A FREAKING REPORT! Seriously.. WTF!
Plus, there is just no effort to produce decent work. If it is just becos his english is bad, i gladly change it for him if I can see the point he is getting across is good, but honestly, that is rubbish work.. If I had time, I would just delete his file and restart a new one. But sadly, no, I dun have so much time or energy to do that. And he is wasting my time and energy already to edit his work..
So bye bye useless guy, torment somebody else next semester!
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