Yee ‘O Lost Souls

As you guys already know, I spent my weekend in KL and had just got back. But I am an accountable and responsible group leader so as the deadline for my members are fast approaching, I messaged them asking how things are going.

And guess what I get?

3 out of 4 of them hadn’t completed it. Why? lemme quote a reply  I got from that ‘unofficial deputy’ of mine:

"I’ve done it, but haven’t typed it. We went to college on Friday wanting to use the computers but none were free."

Was she expecting me to TYPE them for her??

Pissed, I replied back:

"Whatever it is, there is a cybercafe. By this afternoon, save everything in a pendrive and I’ll edit. Get it?"

As if it wasn’t clear enough, she said some more useless crap:

"But [another group member] haven’t finished too"

Now tell me everyone, how is THAT going to help us finish the proposal?

Taking on my no-nonsense, take responsibility, do-whatever-it-takes attitude, I replied:

"Get it done by 5. No excuses."

I didn’t get a reply.

I asked the other three. One said she finished late last night and will be giving me back my pendrive I borrowed her today. One more replied saying she hadn’t finished and will submit to me tomorrow. I told her we’re submitting the proposal tomorrow and how am I supposed to submit to the lecturer if she too was submitting to me tomorrow huh?? Not unless her English was excellent.

One more didn’t reply me. I’m too pissed to even call her.

So far I only got 1/4 of the contents and the one I received was pretty good. I can see the elements of copy and paste but at least everything flows together and some real effort went into it.

That’s what we want to see, people. Effort. Effort.

The last thing we want are excuses.

Now my group members may say I don’t have anything big to prepare for the proposal so I can’t say it’s not hard to do. Geez I have had my share of doing other people’s grunt work too okay? I mean come on, these people only have to do about 4-5 minutes of speech and from experience a speech that long is only about 1 page long! I could do this thing in one night!

And even if it was really hard, deadline is deadline. I’ve had, several times in my life thought things could have gone easier or my hard work would not have been wasted if I had only taken action. And I don’t blame the lack of a computer, time, or other people for it. I blamed myself. It was my lack of competence and planning that led me to my own misery, heartache and disappointment.

So far my goals in life have been to reduce those moments.

All I asked is that my group members be accountable for their own things. I gave them a whole weekend to do it and they said it was fine. How come this one member could do it, even though she got her part later, and the rest couldn’t? Furthermore, in my other group, the member who’s supposed to submit to me her info today also couldn’t do it over the weekend coz she was also going to KL. BUT! She said she’ll find the info and submit to me later tonight. She’s doing it as I type.

She may not be on time, but at least she’s doing it. What more could you ask for anyway? I excuse her because she had proven her reliability before. A good track record helps, you see.

Honestly, I shouldn’t be the one agonizing over other people’s idiocy and incompetence. But they are everywhere. Is it so hard to be accountable and responsible for your own actions? I mean geez, you’re adults already! If this keeps up I may have to take out the whips and chains on these people. If they regretted their choice, too bad.

I asked them twice if they really wanted me to be leader.

Ta. Ra.

p/s "In the success equation, other people’s idiocy and incompetence are constant variables." Atziluth, 2007.

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