This story’s too juicy for me not to blog about.

Story starts with this one character, let’s name him bee. Bee looks normal on the onset but when you start to get to know him lots of tiny niggles start to bug you.

Bee’s no a very independent person, and can’t do much for himself. Let’s start with his computer knowledge. As an IT student there are certain expectations set upon compared to students from other faculties. When asked to google to find out something, Bee said “how to do that?”. When asked if he used msn, he said “what’s msn?”.

Add to that his extremely rigid daily plan. I’ve been told he wakes up really early in the day, and sleeps at 7 or 8 every night. And before he sleeps, he switches off his phone.

Did I mention bee’s a university student?

It’s obvious that he’s led a sheltered life, as his lack of self-initiative shows. He can’t find out things on his own, unless you tell him where and how. Even the simplest things, like googling for information (after we’d shown how), or how to zip and unzip files.

I had the mispleasure pleasure of having to work with him on assignments for one subject.

Like most IT subjects, this assignment required you to do a large amount of external reading and research. The internet remains to be the ultimate tool, as the thousands of online forums almost always have the solution you want, if you know how to find it.

So as such, as I figured he could not manage to do this, I took upon to doing a large portion of the assignment myself. When I say large portion, I’m talking about 88 marks out of 100 worth.

The assignment was initially due last friday, but it was decided that the deadline be extended to monday, which would be tomorrow.

On Saturday morning, as I was on the way to a relative’s house for raya, and I get a call from him. I could hear that his dad was sitting next to him, spitting out what to say to me.

“Can you do the report for the assignment, compile all the codes and put it into the report. I also need it by tomorrow morning”.

Knowing that he doesn’t have the capacity to do it on his own, or to figure out how, I had to say yes, for the benefit of the group (made up of the two of us, our marks are shared)

“Do you need me to call you tonight or tomorrow morning to remind you?”

Geez, whatthefuck.

So after getting back late from raya-ing last night, I managed to compile the whole report in an hour and sent it off to him. I did leave a few errors here and there, to see if he would spot them, because he said he wanted it early Sunday morning so he could check it.

Fast forward to today, having done almost 90% of the work, as well as compiling the report myself, I left him to “check” it and went out to the Pavillion with some friends. And I kept getting calls, and calls, and calls. All loaded with stupid questions. Politely, I answered them all.

Then later on, he started to panic, and wanted to submit the assignment now. (we have to electronically submit the assignment on a website prepared, not hard to do, doesnt take long)

He said he was worried the system would go down tomorrow and we won’t be able to submit tomorrow. I told him that’s silly, and it’s stupid to submit an incomplete assignment now. And also, only one of us has to submit it, he doesn’t have to since I already said I would when it was finished many times.

Then me and my friends went into a cinema to watch and movie, and the calls kept coming and coming. I didn’t wanna miss any bits of the movie, so I replied him saying i’m in the cinema and I can’t pick up. He then said this:

“I haf run through the final copy and it looks fine. If any amendment is needed 2 b made pls let me know now.if i do not get any reply in da next 5 min. I m going to submit”

I replied saying that there were errors I left behind, and it’s pretty obvious he’s an idiot because he didn’t spot them, and he’s threatening to submit it now. Massive fail la. He then sent this:

“Sms is not convenient for discussion. I hv checked n it is ok. I dont hv time to wait for tm. It is due tom!”

I told him to relax, it’s only due tomorrow by 12, and he sent this gem:

“I called choy he doesnt know what’s the prob! Let’s not waste time and i wont hv time tom to look at final version. This is not funny! THis is teamwrk n i am adjusting the final. You r watching movie. How to relax! I m going submit if i dont hear fr u. Call me now else i submit”

Choy’s a friend I’m working with on this assignment. He doesn’t like bee very much either.

What really annoyed me about this sms was that I’d already done huge chunks of work, and he had done so little. I got even more annoyed when I got home and looked at the report that he had “edited”, only to find that he had merely inserted a table of contents and insert page numbers. Heh!

Then I started getting calls from another number, while I was still in the movie. Smsed the number and ask who this is, and got no reply, so ignored all calls.

Annoyed, at both the movie and the situation, we walked out of the movie. I then got a call from bee’s phone, and picked up.

“Hello, this is bee’s mother”

WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

“…and I’m concerned at your lack of concern with this assignment”

I was boiling at this point, his mom was pissing me off with her condescending tone while talking to me. Doesn’t help that her son was feeding her misinformation, making me look real bad. She asked this, with reference to an incomplete question that I was gonna work on later with Choy:

“my son tells me that you’ll be working on this question with choy later. He also said that he has asked the lecturer to help him do it and the lecturer said he doesn’t know how to do it. What makes you two think you can do it?”

I hit back “excuse me aunty, if you ask a lecturer how to do an assignment question, they will never tell you exactly how to do. It defeats the purpose of the assignment”. I made sure to raise my voice, so as to quell her position of power in the conversation.

“but my son says the solution in the report is already correct”

“aunty, I DID THAT PART OF THE ASSIGNMENT (I didnt, but should have, mentioned that I did almost all parts)! I know it is wrong. Your son has clearly misread the question”.

We spoke on for a bit more, I was absolutely boiling then, so I cant remember what else transpired. I left then, in anger and rage, and when I got home I looked at the report he had “edited” while I was watching a movie in disgust, seeing how little he had done. I fixed major segments of the report, and hit him back with an email:

Proof that you did not go through the queries properly, note changes that I have made.
Regards,
Izuan
PS: DO NOT go upload yet, query 12 has not been solved fully yet.

And even after that, he still smsed me asking if he could upload it now. FUCK LA!

I made more changes, and emailed him once again:

I noticed all you did change was add in the assessment coversheet, table of contents and page numbering, what’s so stressful then? I did more work compiling all the queries into report format, as well as writing them and fixing them.
Once again do not go upload to moodle, I will do so once I am done with query 12, and as your mother said only one of us will have to upload it.
Izuan

And once again he smsed and asked if he could upload it now. Geez whatthefuck x2.

That’s all now thanks for reading. Hit me back in person/msn/onthephone if you’d like to learn more.