I’m currently working on a group presentation due to be shown on Thursday.

While I vowed never to be that guy, I am indeed going to complain for a moment about the rest of my group since I seem to be, predictably, the only one who knows what’s going on.

These posts are really common and annoying, no one likes reading them etc. but dammit! I thought I could trust them!

So one member of our group is going away for the actual presentation, so we agreed that if she did up some slides before she went we would credit her for her portion of the work, fair do’s. We all met up today to discuss it and went home happy it would be fine. She sent in her work this afternoon and frankly, WHAT HAPPENED? Her slides don’t even make grammatical sense, and I have no idea how they’re relevant to the presentation as a whole, since they seem to have little or no correlation to the plan we spent all morning and most of the afternoon devising.

The other girl only just put up her parts, and while she at least gets what the presentation is on, she’s misunderstood what we’re presenting on, and it’s turned form an analysis of anglo-saxon literature to A Statement on the MODERN FASHION INDUSTRY INCLUDING A SHAMELESS, LENGTHLY AND IRRELEVANT PLUG FOR A CHARITY I KNOW FOR A FACT SHE’S ASSOCIATED WITH. Now, I don’t want to swat down a charity, they undoubtedly do good work, but if my degree’s gonna be riding on this, I want it out of the presentation.

In fairness, I haven’t submitted much to the powerpoint at all, but since I decided the layout of the whole thing, and exactly what we’d be talking about I wanted to see what they came up with so I could work around it without ruining their stuff— but seriously? It’s either wrong, incomprehensible or irrelevant! How am I meant to work with this?