Friday, April 01, 2005
sarcastic mail to MA grpmates
just for your information, the report has been handed in at 1140.
it is funny how this entire project turned out, considering how i sorta pledged my loyalty to this project and promising to work hard when accusations -which were untrue for that matter - were made. funny how someone said the group did not put in effort. yes indeed, that has been proven right. this experience is indeed a memorable one for me. never in smu have i come across a group such as this - where i do more than half of the entire project. where people just merely copied and paste their speeches to make up their part of the report. where the rest of the grp semi-free-rided on me.
please, its time for some self-reflections based on certain facts.
1) only one grp member interviewed the company the weekend just b4 our presentation. if the project was priority, n the grp had nothing done then, it was only right to make time for a simple interview
2) points for the presentation were all nicely coordinated and written for the grp by one grp member
3) one grp member consolidated the slides
4) one grp member wrote the bulk of the report and all the annexes. the bulk which required thinking and anlaysis. a little part that member asked the grp to fill in was left undone becoz the rest of the grp feels that its unnecessary. how can the report's recommendations consist of only 1 thing when the weight of the report is based on whether or not the grp can think of suggestions for the company's CB project and analysis?!
5) the other portions of the report were already provided from the interview data and had only be constructed into paragraphs, and even so, speeches were just copied and pasted. and becoz of such slip short work, one grp member had to do major editting/rewriting the entire nite b4 the report was due. i dun think there is a need to explicit say who that one grp member is.
some friendly advice:smu is relatively small. reputations are impt. i bet u all haf oredi come across freeriders and haf oredi blacklisted them. if that is the standard of work u give to others, if that is the level of commitment u have to a project, if that is the best effort u can give to a project, dun expect a good reputation.
i wish u all the best for your remaining education in smu.
~~~ Angela 1:43 PM
