[Organized Chaos]

... and do what? Chastise that person? He/she is not going to care, if he/she was unwilling to do the work in the first place, and then you're back to where you started - doing all the work yourself anyway. I HATE GROUP PROJECTS.

For my major's capstone class at college, we were assigned a group project. When the semester ended, the end project was not very impressive or professional looking. (In my defense, this was my most physically draining semester. On average, I'd get less than three hours of sleep per night. I still don't know how I made it through.)

The problem was that I was assigned two other people in the project that were slackers (one was only barely a slacker (The type that will work if given a task, but can't take the initiative), and one was full-on slacker.)



When we were presenting our final product, we had to do it in front of a medium sized group of people (15 to 20). The barely-slacker did fine, and I knew exactly what I needed to say, but when it came to the total slacker, he stood in front of the whole group for about a minute in absolute silence (part of it was fear, I'm sure, but part of it was also incompetence.)

I ended up having to do random crap like scratch my face and quietly feed him his entire speech, just to try to save face.

At the end, we were required to evaluate our partners and the level of contribution they gave to the project out of 60 possible points. I decided to be nice, and I spread out the points as 30-20-10, but if I'd have been honest the points would have been more like 40-18-2.

What makes this worse is that I'd had uber-slacker in a group project before and knew he was bad news but our groups for this class were assigned by the teacher, so I didn't have any say in the matter. F****** group projects. I HATE THEM.

[Spiny]

Talking all day with nothing to say
Your shallow proclamations all misinformation.

How can I be sure I'm here?
The pills that I've been taking confuse me
I need to know that someone sees that
There's nothing left, I simply am not here

@WamphyriThrall - Fan of the band? That's the first song/album I heard from them and I now have most of their discography.

[Yardiff Bey]

But what can I do? If I keep running into unfortunate club-related circumstances, I could end up losing my position and making another enemy. I guess I'll just have to take it in stride and "reprogram" myself mentally. Tell myself before the dinner to act casual. To put on another face as I've grown used to doing over the past year. Engage in a bit of pseudo-friendly conversation, fake a few laughs, crack a genuine-looking smile for the picture some idiot board member with a camera will take. I can always gag and unwind after.

Sounds like a plan.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming. What would James Bond do? Put on the Roger Moore mask and knock 'em dead with your suave moves, 007.

[SoftBoiledLife]

Neuro-Linguistic Programming. What would James Bond do? Put on the Roger Moore mask and knock 'em dead with your suave moves, 007.

I'm barely a beginner in the art of acting, so it'll be tough to get the act down 100%. But I'll probably do some geeky rituals before heading off to that silly dinner. Meditate in front of a picture of Roger Moore on my computer and tell myself "For the next three hours, you will adapt your image, your identity, and your personality to fit James Bond's. Although you will not necessarily have to drink a martini that's been shaken, not stirred, your objective is to blend in and please the crowd."

[Sela]

At the end, we were required to evaluate our partners and the level of contribution they gave to the project out of 60 possible points. I decided to be nice, and I spread out the points as 30-20-10, but if I'd have been honest the points would have been more like 40-18-2.

In the group project that I did for one of my later major classes, we were required to do an evaluation of our fellow group members as well. It was worth 30 points (i.e., we were required to do it). There were four or five categories with a point scale of 1 (worst) to 5 (best). I was unable to score the slacker zeroes because of this; however, I didn't hesitate in giving her 1's across the board.

[Organized Chaos]

In the group project that I did for one of my later major classes, we were required to do an evaluation of our fellow group members as well. It was worth 30 points (i.e., we were required to do it). There were four or five categories with a point scale of 1 (worst) to 5 (best). I was unable to score the slacker zeroes because of this; however, I didn't hesitate in giving her 1's across the board.

It's weird. My Thinking preference is my strongest preference, and yet for some reason, I still feel some sort of empathy to others' feelings. Bizarre...

[MBTI Enthusiast]

It's weird. My Thinking preference is my strongest preference, and yet for some reason, I still feel some sort of empathy to others' feelings. Bizarre...

Uhh... that's not weird.

Luckily, now that I'm in college, I haven't had to deal with as many slacker types. But someone would have to do a pretty horrendous job to get a 1. To me, that would entail being uncooperative and unproductive.

[CorgiGirl]

There's a strong NF on Oprah today. I think I'm going to throw up, lol.

Ok, so I don't know if he's an NF. But I'm sure that a lot of gullible NFs would swallow what he's saying hook, line, and sinker.

[CorgiGirl]

Rave: My fish moved to my house! I enjoy watching it swim around it's fish bowl.

Rave: Orchestra starts tonight. Playing music for the first time is always fun.

Rant: Orchestra starts tonight. Two and a half hours is going to be tiring. And I haven't really done anything with putting my life back in order. Laundry is a must tonight, I have run out of underwear. But that will have to wait until after orchestra.

Rave: I have no classes on Tuesday! So all this procrastinating won't bite me quite as hard.

[nosilla]

Rave: I started work today at a medical office. It was fun (well, as much fun as filing and pulling charts can be).
The ladies who work there are wonderful and extremely nice. The time went by really quickly.

Rave: I LOVE my professors this semester. Seriously, I love them all. This is going to be the best semester ever.

Rant: Problems with my mother. ¬_¬

Rant: I hate reading "Mary Barton" by Elizabeth Gaskell. Ughhhhhhhhh.

Rant: I haven't been on PerC lately. I also don't really feel like posting on the other threads. Hm.