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OK, this is a rant - but I really need to say this.
I am currently on a GCSE Psychology course, we were assigned to groups of three with people in our class to collect data and do a unit of coursework together, and were given 6 weeks to do it. On the day we were given the assignment I asked everyone in the group for phone numbers and E-Mail addresses so that we could contact each other to do the work.
When I asked them for their numbers/E-Mail addresses they just ignored me and turned away. I tried three times and eventually gave up, but made sure they had my contact information. I tried to arrange times for us all to meet up to get the work done, but neither of them ever turned up.
I told them in class we needed to split the work so that we all do our share - I would write the legal agreement and debriefing for participants of the experiment we were asked to do, the introduction, and outline of the experiment. The other two were asked to come up together with a list of 21 words on any subject that took their fancy. Then they were asked to write a 20 question survery regarding the experiment. (I composed the experiment so I did a major part of the work.)
After asking them for a month they still hadn't done it, and they tried to blame me saying I didn't phone them. I was so pissed off, I'd done my work over a month ago and had tried to talk to them about the coursework at College (they would avoid me after lessons). And the teachers refused to get involved with the issue.
On the day the coursework was due in they tried to blame it all one me - but I stood up for myself. The teacher said we had one week to do the whole peice of coursework - one week!
They started fart-arsing around and trying to blame everything on me, demanding for the results that weren't there, refused to work, etc. I told them if they didn't get off their asses then I'd just go do the work without them and they wouldn't get the results. They waited one day before the coursework was due in before I snapped at them both and shouted. I went to the College computer room and carried on with the work, one of them started complaining and told me to "hurry up" because he wanted to go home and play his guitar. >_>
I told them I was going to my lessons (I was already late because I had to print off that work) and when I got back after 2 hours they should have come up with a 20 question survey, with relavant questions to the investigation. I came back, and they'd done five questions that were totally irrellavent to the topic. I told them it was crap, to grow up and do the work properly. They said they didn't know what questions to ask (despite the fact I'd lent both of them a few books on how to write good surveys relavent to certain topics).
The next day (today) I was sick from food poisoning, had a migraine during the night, and had been throwing up all morning. But I still made the effort to go in, despite how crap I was feeling and went to both of their houses to make sure they actually came in to do the work (they hadn't turned up for the meetings again). I found out that one of them had actually cheated and stole the data from someone else, leaving me and the one other person high and dry. I yelled at him and said "why didn't you do the work a month ago? Maybe you can go get results off of someone else, but you don't go f****** up someone's GCSE grade" (if you don't pass all your courses in the year you cannot go on to further education at this college, and this coursework makes up 50% of my final grade). He then responded "I've just been feeling a little stressed lately", he tried to play the sympathy card to make out that he was oh so miserable. I'm sorry, but I have suicidal tendencies, and have been diagnosed with major depression, insomnia, and OCD. And I still got the work done. >_>
He then said to me "well this is how I do things, it's worked in the past before" I responded by saying
"is that why you're on a GCSE resit course?" I then stormed off because I don't like being angry.
Frantically I collected the data, making me miss my Chemistry lesson with my tutor (he helps me learn for next lesson, otherwise I get put on a Stage 2 {if you get a Stage 3 at the college it's their last step from kicking you out}. After going and pleading with the teacher, she said she's mailing off the coursework to the examination board at 12pm tommorrow, so if I saw her before then she'd take in the work. I had to eat my dinner on the bus on the way home, before I got back at 9 and had to work straight away. I'ts 2:25am now and the only reason I'm on here is because I feel like I'm about to implode. It's one of those times when killing yourself is just a really easy way out of all of this. ;_;
I'm so sick of people trying to blame their problems on everyone else. I have problems, but I go about my way to deal with it. Sure everyone has differen't stressors in their life, but they shouldn't use them as an excuse to abuse others. I'm lazy, but when something important needs to be done I do it. I encounter so many people like this everyday it's ******* unbelievable, today when buying my dinner this woman with a buggy decided to ram it into anyone who didn't step off the pavement onto the road to let her take up the whole side of the pavement. I just stood there when she repeatedly rammed the buggy into me. She said "can't you just move?" I said to her
"just because you're pushing a buggy doesn't mean you have the right to be an a*****e".
Instead of blaming our own problems on others, and trying to shirk off our responsibilities to other people, why don't we just accept that we messed up - but actually make an effort to do something about it? Sure we may encounter problems in our lives, and I can understand people needing time to grieve. But at the end of they day everyone has to make a decision as whether to stop or do something about the situation.
Bah, sorry for the rant, and sorry if it offended anyone. :mellow:
I am currently on a GCSE Psychology course, we were assigned to groups of three with people in our class to collect data and do a unit of coursework together, and were given 6 weeks to do it. On the day we were given the assignment I asked everyone in the group for phone numbers and E-Mail addresses so that we could contact each other to do the work.
When I asked them for their numbers/E-Mail addresses they just ignored me and turned away. I tried three times and eventually gave up, but made sure they had my contact information. I tried to arrange times for us all to meet up to get the work done, but neither of them ever turned up.
I told them in class we needed to split the work so that we all do our share - I would write the legal agreement and debriefing for participants of the experiment we were asked to do, the introduction, and outline of the experiment. The other two were asked to come up together with a list of 21 words on any subject that took their fancy. Then they were asked to write a 20 question survery regarding the experiment. (I composed the experiment so I did a major part of the work.)
After asking them for a month they still hadn't done it, and they tried to blame me saying I didn't phone them. I was so pissed off, I'd done my work over a month ago and had tried to talk to them about the coursework at College (they would avoid me after lessons). And the teachers refused to get involved with the issue.
On the day the coursework was due in they tried to blame it all one me - but I stood up for myself. The teacher said we had one week to do the whole peice of coursework - one week!
They started fart-arsing around and trying to blame everything on me, demanding for the results that weren't there, refused to work, etc. I told them if they didn't get off their asses then I'd just go do the work without them and they wouldn't get the results. They waited one day before the coursework was due in before I snapped at them both and shouted. I went to the College computer room and carried on with the work, one of them started complaining and told me to "hurry up" because he wanted to go home and play his guitar. >_>
I told them I was going to my lessons (I was already late because I had to print off that work) and when I got back after 2 hours they should have come up with a 20 question survey, with relavant questions to the investigation. I came back, and they'd done five questions that were totally irrellavent to the topic. I told them it was crap, to grow up and do the work properly. They said they didn't know what questions to ask (despite the fact I'd lent both of them a few books on how to write good surveys relavent to certain topics).
The next day (today) I was sick from food poisoning, had a migraine during the night, and had been throwing up all morning. But I still made the effort to go in, despite how crap I was feeling and went to both of their houses to make sure they actually came in to do the work (they hadn't turned up for the meetings again). I found out that one of them had actually cheated and stole the data from someone else, leaving me and the one other person high and dry. I yelled at him and said "why didn't you do the work a month ago? Maybe you can go get results off of someone else, but you don't go f****** up someone's GCSE grade" (if you don't pass all your courses in the year you cannot go on to further education at this college, and this coursework makes up 50% of my final grade). He then responded "I've just been feeling a little stressed lately", he tried to play the sympathy card to make out that he was oh so miserable. I'm sorry, but I have suicidal tendencies, and have been diagnosed with major depression, insomnia, and OCD. And I still got the work done. >_>
He then said to me "well this is how I do things, it's worked in the past before" I responded by saying
"is that why you're on a GCSE resit course?" I then stormed off because I don't like being angry.
Frantically I collected the data, making me miss my Chemistry lesson with my tutor (he helps me learn for next lesson, otherwise I get put on a Stage 2 {if you get a Stage 3 at the college it's their last step from kicking you out}. After going and pleading with the teacher, she said she's mailing off the coursework to the examination board at 12pm tommorrow, so if I saw her before then she'd take in the work. I had to eat my dinner on the bus on the way home, before I got back at 9 and had to work straight away. I'ts 2:25am now and the only reason I'm on here is because I feel like I'm about to implode. It's one of those times when killing yourself is just a really easy way out of all of this. ;_;
I'm so sick of people trying to blame their problems on everyone else. I have problems, but I go about my way to deal with it. Sure everyone has differen't stressors in their life, but they shouldn't use them as an excuse to abuse others. I'm lazy, but when something important needs to be done I do it. I encounter so many people like this everyday it's ******* unbelievable, today when buying my dinner this woman with a buggy decided to ram it into anyone who didn't step off the pavement onto the road to let her take up the whole side of the pavement. I just stood there when she repeatedly rammed the buggy into me. She said "can't you just move?" I said to her
"just because you're pushing a buggy doesn't mean you have the right to be an a*****e".
Instead of blaming our own problems on others, and trying to shirk off our responsibilities to other people, why don't we just accept that we messed up - but actually make an effort to do something about it? Sure we may encounter problems in our lives, and I can understand people needing time to grieve. But at the end of they day everyone has to make a decision as whether to stop or do something about the situation.
Bah, sorry for the rant, and sorry if it offended anyone. :mellow:
