sielwolf's Journal: MORE PHLUCKING

Well I skipped class as planned and spent 5.5 hours working on the first two-thirds of the presentation. Why? Because the third guy vaninshed! Yep, he decided to ignore our email (we know he read it as we finger'ed him and found that he had hit his mail spool). So he might be working on his third... or he might not. Who knows.

But this is the classic part. We went to the prof to tell him this (along with some other questions) and this was his response: "well I don't think its unreasonable for the two of you to do the entire presentation."

WHAT?!? The third guy gets off the hook and we (the responsible ones) get to take his burden?

I then explained to the prof that I had two labs to teach this evening so there was almost no way that I'd be able to do that.

"Well try to do as much as you can. It would be a shame to not cover it."

Um... I think you missed the moral of this exercise. Somebody fucking gimped out on an assignment and you instead fuck over those who had the courtesy to do the work assigned!

Even better is that tomorrow in class he is going to crucify us with questions and probably be angry that we didn't find more "examples" (ok, here I'm being a cynic. Although its a Papadimitriou paper, we got to the "moment of clarity" part so we actually will understand it instead of trying to bullshit our way through the problem).

But what lesson does this teach us: do not do any work if you want a good grade.

Welcome to fucking Bizarro World...

This totally reminds me of Dilbert.

[eugene ts wong]

This just so bizarre, that I almost have difficulty believing it happened. However, it should be plainly obvious to most people that if there is a wrong way to do something, then there will be someone who will find a way to do it.

whee

[pjgeer]

Finish the presentation (sigh). On sticky notes, write idiotic and senseless remarks about parts of the text and stick the notes on your presentation cheatsheet at the appropriate points. Appeal to give your presentation instead during office hours but don't tell the deadbeat. If the prof agrees or the deadbeat doesn't show up to class on presentation day, attribute the remarks to him. If he shows up to class without his part, make sure everyone in the class (to pressure the prof) knows that he did no work on the assignment. If all three of you get a good grade, brag his situation to those who did poorly, who will see to it that he fails the assignment. If he shows up to class with his part, remove the sticky notes and throw them away. Then get his number and his cell number. If it happens again, submit them to adult novelty telemarketers.

The third guy

[Tet]

Why? Because the third guy vaninshed!

At University, we had a similar deal. We each split into groups, three per group, and did a project to write an email system. At the end of the project, each group got to present their work to the rest of the class. The lecturer said "if any of you feel that a member of your group hasn't been pulling their weight, let me know, and I'll adjust the marks accordingly". So one of my friends gets up to do his group's presentation. All goes well, and at as he's finishing he adds "I don't think Spuddy[1] should get any marks for this project, because he's ignored all my email, and we haven't seen him all term". At which point, a voice pipes up from the back of the lecture hall: "Errr.... that's because he's missing, presumed dead. He got drunk at the beginning of term, stole a fishing boat and headed out to sea. The empty boat was found a few days later. His parents came and collected his personal belongings a few weeks ago". Cue stunned silence...

[1] No, I can't remember his real name. We all called him Spuddy, though, because his login name was "spd" (from his initials).