Current mood:	pissed off
Current music:	My Chemical Romance - Disenchanted

Irresponsible People...
I've had my fill of irresponsible people yesterday.. Actually to be specific, I only encountered one directly and the other one is provided by Ping... But stilll, it was enuff to make me mad like hell...

I always considered myself as a nice project mate.. I mean I have never really blow up on anyone before nor strike off a person's name from the project list.. Maybe i've been lucky (according to Ping) to have met nice project mates and never had to encounter darn free-loaders.. Or maybe not... Coz my requirement from project mates (even if that means i have to do extra parts and edit ppl's part like nobody's business) is pretty simple:

Rule No 1: Try your best, be it your project part or submission of deadline
Rule No 2: If you cant submit by the deadline, at least let us know and give us a gauge on when we will be expecting your part in

And that's it... Very difficult is it?? I don't even care if you give me crap, as in of course "put-in effort crap", I jus want responsible people... I know everyone has their limitation and some people's command of language is just so atrocious, they cant help it.. But at least let us know you've tried and is worth the group marks you gonna get right?? Tell me I am not demanding...

Lo and behold, after yrs and yrs of project churning, I met one of the most irresponsible project mate EVER!.. Before I go on, I know there are ppl who jus simply don't care and wont even turn up for project meeting and stuff... BUT if i ever meet this kinda ppl and I know they dont care, neither will I... I will jus submit without his/her name... Who cares what they think? They fail also not my business...

But this one... HAIZ.. I don't even know wats his thinking.. So here's how the story goes:

After weeks and weeks of rushing for all kind of things, including assignments, work, classes and my dearest prezzie (which i am happy to do btw)... I am simply pooped out.. Physically and mentally.. Of course I am not the only one in this boat.. Joining myself is Yan Ping and Jieyin... Complaining about it is not going to help any of us so we have no choice but to complete all the stuff since that stupid paper we gonna get out of it is deem SO IMPORTANT in the working society...

Out of the tons of things we have to do, there is this Cross-Cultural Management project which in my team, beside Jieyin and Ping is this other girl called Ng Qi and this other guy called Marcus.. Wanna guess who's the f-up one?? Yepz u got it right.. It IS this other guy called Marcus.... Now, 4 girls and 1 guy... Does that give the only guy enuff reason to make our life even more miserable than it already is??? Sad to say, sorry Marcus, that's the priviledge that come ONLY when you are a gorgeous FEMALE in an all-male group.. And you are neither gorgeous nor a female... =.=''

Let's continue...  So there's this project and all five of us has various parts to do.. And when come submission time, we were all late coz the previous day we were rushing another project.. So fine.. We tried.. But when the day past and Ping, the editor, tried to get us to submit our parts, Marcus remain missing.. Even when we decide to meet that Sat (which is the last sat already coz we were suppose to pass it up that Mon, 31 Mar), he remain missing... After tons of speculation from our end, he FINALLY send in his part of the project, which suspiciously looks like he copied from somewhere and his charts has no citation.. 

Then Sat came and we were still speculating if his gonna turn up.. Called him once, din pick up.. Msg him, din reply.. Finally, Jieyin got thru and he said his on his way.. So fine, we waited and waited.... Hrs past and still no sign of him.. Called him again and again, din pick up... Ng Qi was still wondering maybe he walked from Malaysia!! When in fact he is suppose to come from Dhoby Ghaut to Raffles Place.. 2 stops take hrs??? *sacasm oozing out*

When he FINALLY turned up... We had our discussion and he remained quiet, as if smth got stuck in his throat, unless Ping asked him a direct question which he always give a noncommittal ans.. And instead of reading the project parts, he was busy copying my presentation slides coz he didnt turn up for classes... In the end we decided to ask him to do the abstract and conclusion (since this is the only 2 parts that will not affect the progress of the project), he still dare to say "Huh u trust my english ah?".. And all of this only got me mildly mad okay... He has broken my rules when he became uncontactable and missed the deadline but still I did not blow up... Not at him anyway...

Now let me give you a clearer picture:

1) Our assignment due date is Monday, 31 Mar
2) We met on Saturday, 29 Mar for the project discussion till about 4pm

Which means we only have Sat after 4pm till Sunday to rush our final parts out and send to Yan Ping for editing and lastly printout since Monday, 31 Mar is a working day and there's nothing much we can do abt it...

Okay so what did Marcus do that caused my full-fledge anger??

Right!! He f**king only send his parts in on Monday despite promising Ping that he WILL get it out by Sunday.. Guess what time he send in his parts? Bloody one at 10am and the other one at 12pm lar! As if that is not enough, he gave us TOTAL CRAP!! I mean seriously, who in the right mind will give summary that is fucking copied and paste from the other parts of the report??? COPIED AND PASTE okay!!! Word for word... He went to do a 3-page crappy summary with all the parts copied from the introductory para of all the various points we have done in the report... "Marcus, if I need you to do such a thing, I might as well go get a primary sch kid... Oh actually i think a primary sch kid like my sister will have more sense than you!! As for the abstract, I specifically said 500 words and you gave a 200 plus words report that dubiously look like its copied from Ping's introduction.. Superb!" We all think his trying to placate us by sending some things even if its atrocious stuff.. Doesnt he think that we have the right to take him out of the project??

Therefore, because of this.. Jieyin, Yan Ping and myself had to struggle to RE-DO his parts... I meant re-do okay.. Not even edit.. His report was so crappy, it actually cost us lesser effort to re-do than edit... =.=''

FYI, Yan Ping was doing the editing of the whole report, Jieyin was re-doing the abstract and I was doing the summary.. I took from the time we realised he sent in the conclusion at about 1pm till 6pm to do a sensible conclusion during working hours!! and Monday is usually my most busy working day!! I really don't understand how come he has more than 30 hrs and he cannot produce something better than copy and paste...

So all 3 of us end up rushing to do Marcus part, do editing, do content page, do layout, do printing and binding and left the office at 9pm.. Ping left later coz after she finished rushing the project, she still got work to do... Yesterday my brain was so fried, I really didnt think it could work anymore.... Even when my dearest called me last night to ask me why I am still in the office, I was too tired to repeat the whole agitating story to him...

Yes if we had more time for the project, I probably wont be this mad... We will jus throw it back at him so many times, he either remove himself from the team or he give us some decent stuff.. But fact is there is no time and all three of us is bloody pissed at him...

As if one Marcus is not enough, Ping jus told us yst that one of her dealer went for a course and has some homework to do.. And he went back to the office to bug Ping to do his econs homework for him.. Arsehole!

Msg from Ping to Marcus:

"Dear Marcus

Lindy and jaye and me had to pia this out during work.
Plz bear in mind that other pple also have jobs.
Having to completely over haul your work is not our job.

And YES we are pissed at you. "

Msg from Me to Marcus:

"Dear Marcus

Ping told me this morning that you are probably mad at her.
If you are not happy, not like i care..
I am not particularly happy with you too!"



This is a screwed-up world...