It’s once again time for a “Where the hell is Jinxi?” post.
Well, I was doing a project of course with my *gag* group. Did I mention I’m the only female in the group1 ? Well, this past week I really saw where Beth was coming from regarding women in the technology field. She dealt with it at work, but I’m getting it from cheeky little just-out-of-teens geek boys.
I was the team leader for this project2. We were to load our database up with some useless information that dealt directly with other useless information we’d made up for a previous project. It was all very simple and direct. I got right to the point, gave out the individual assignments and did my leaderly duties. One dude was all “Yeah! This rawks! We’re so going to get this shit done early!” and he did his job lickety-split. The other dude? Waited…and waited…and waited some more. He didn’t respond to any of my threads on our team forum, nor did he offer any input into the design process. He just wasn’t there. He acted like I wasn’t even giving instructions and he wasn’t a part of our team. Finally, on the day before everything was due, he posted his part of the assignment and went straight into directing the rest of us for our next fucking project.
Motherfucker.
Then, of course, we had to do the uber-stupid team evals. The guy finally responds to a week old thread, saying that he had expected us to show up in chat and we left him hanging. Except we didn’t agree to meet in chat. We agreed that particular weekend wasn’t a good time for that for all of us. So, why would he say something?
He told the other dude that he wanted to give me low marks on my leadership. He said that he felt left out of the entire project and that I did a bad job of running it. He told this to the other dude in email, of course. An email that was summarily sent on to me, because the other dude felt this leg of the project ran incredibly smooth and that I did a fantastic job. Other dude told me3 that he wasn’t going to mark me low. But Idiot boy was.
Fucking asshole.
So, I did my eval and put in comments that the professor should look at our threads. I don’t know if and/or how often she looks in on us, but she does have access to our forum. All the proof is in there. I did what I was supposed to do, but this guy didn’t like it. Why? A good question that will be posed when our last project is finished. This is, of course, the same freak that declared himself our very first team leader. He was all gung-ho to get everything organized when it was his turn at the helm. But he didn’t like what I did with the last project and/or the fact that I’m better at certain things than he is. I’m not really sure why he’s trying to sabotage me, but he is. And that doesn’t bode well for him.
I will wring his neck.
In other news, I was somehow nominated for the My New Favorite Blog 2008 contest. I’m going up against A Haiku for No One. I’m really curious as to who nominated me. I’d also like to thank that person. Whoever she/he/it was. Wish me luck!
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Ugh, groups. Hate ‘em. Hopefully your prof will check the forum and grade appropriately, but who knows. My daughter S had a bad experience with a group recently, but it worked out okay after she basically took over and convinced half of them (the slacker half) that they’d be much happier forming their own group, which they did, and the teacher approved it. Now she has a group of 6 or 7 good peeps who actually care about finishing the project and getting an A. But what a hassle!
Some people just don’t like working under a member of the opposite sex - crazy! that’s my favourite posit … wait, too much info - but I’ve seen that in both men and women. Too much testosterone. Probably over-compensating.
I hate groups too! Sucks when your evaluation is partly based on others that in all reality…you have no real control over. There are just some folks out there that can’t take anything but the leadership role. And they will do anything to prove that others aren’t as competent. Hang in there…I’m sure that with the other team member evaluations the professor will be able to see the whole picture!
I hate when people pull that crap. Sounds like he’s scrambling to make you look bad because he’s trying to take the focus off of his lack of teamwork and shoddy effort in the project. What a tool!
I’ve been doing a lot of leadership seminars lately and we talked about that type. The “do what I tell you and I’ll think of everything” style of leader. Or, as they’re known in the IT world, “IKE” (I know everything). They usually self destruct at some point because they have no concept of team.
I can give you lots of tips on leadership, though it depends on your style. However, sounds like you did a great job in your turn as team leader. Congrats!
I’m in another fight with this freak ass bastard. He has decided that our group report shouldn’t include pronouns such as “they”, “she” and or “he”. He wants us to replace all of those pronouns with variations of one.
How’s this sound?
Now, it originally read thus:
But nooooooo. It’s not stuffy enough. Doesn’t make us all sound all important and shit. Blah, blah, blah.
Speaking of which: That’s not how you use ellipses, fucker!!
*sigh*