~MoO MoO~: Screaming Match

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Had a huge screaming match with my CAT project group mate just not too long ago. Shocked Ryan, Kenny and my dear totally. My poor dear. First time she's studying with me in SMU then she get to see screaming match and the ugly side of Yeesh already. But then, I seriously dunno how anyone can actually work with someone like him. Someone so idealistic. He seriously think with this *snaps fingers* means the whole system will be up and running? Fine. He's not the IS guy around so he doesn't know the difficulties of doing coding. But still, stop being so demanding. The IS guy in the group is not slacking k? He is working till 5/6am in the morning to write all the codes necessary. It's not easy on him.

He really needs to stop walking into the room and demanding that things be done the way he wants it. I know. He's coming from a business manager perspective. But still, we are doing a CAT project. In this project, we are all NOT business managers k? So quit coming into meetings demanding that things be done when you are not doing it!!!

This has gotta be the greatest clash between me and any project mate since the start of my SMU project life. Most of my project group mates are okay, if not, even happy with working with me. Even this semester, when my work is no longer as good as in the past, they are okay with working with me. Working with me is easy. I really don't ask for much. As long as you produce decent work, i'm fine. Even if i have to edit your part like crazy after you've put in effort, i'm fine. But at the very least, produce SOMETHING?

This particular group mate who actually made me so pissed that i had to scream at him? He doesn't do anything. No, not cos he is slack. He is very enthusiastic. But then he is over zealous. He keeps pushing people to work when it is not possible to do work at all. There are limitations in real life can?

In real life, fairy godmothers do not exist and even if they do, they cannot turn pumpkins into carriages just liddat *snaps finger*. Even my 5 year old darling Shimone knows that. She knows that she has to work for things and that if she wants a favour from anyone, she's gotta be guai and prove to the other person that she deserves the extra long bedtime story/hide n seek game/extra long tv time/a big hug.

So friend, quit walking into meetings demanding things. Show me that you took into consideration how things work in real life before you even demand for anything. And oh yeah... just in case you haven't realised. There are many things in life that you don't get just by demanding. You actually need to EARN them.

YYY