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!
And the only female in my Web Scripting class. WTF? [↩]
For some reason we’re supposed to trade off each week. I went ahead and put our names in Random.org so that it was fair… I was not appreciated for that. [↩]
I Hate Me Some Group Work
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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