So we had our last marketing class. My group managed to meet for 4 hours and not kill each other, and we turned in a fairly respectable product. By the grace of God, we somehow scored a 95. I'm fairly certain this means the teacher didn't actually read any of the final papers though, since 2 other groups got 95s as well. This makes me feel really good about the caliber of teaching I'm receiving. But anyway.
We also had to turn in some peer evaluations, ranking each other on a scale that we set ourselves at the beginning of the semester. The evaluations were somehow tallied, weighted, flipped, curved, smacked upside the head and BOOM out came some grades. Unlike you might assume, I actually didn't crucify my group members (on this particular evaluation). Nor did I get totally bitch slapped on my own. Thus confirming that miracles, in fact, do happen.
However, then the e-mails started rolling in. One woman wrote, "Thank you for your peer evaluations. I hope if there is someone who you don't feel is doing 100% of their share of the work on the next group project you're on, you'll be adult enough to speak to them in person, instead of hiding behind the annonymity of the peer evaluation at the end of the semester." Um okay, well I hope the next group project you work on, you actually work on it. That is my hope for you. Oh, and I'm telling Tommy that you ate dirt on the playground today. So there.
Then the Little House on the Prairie dude in the group responded that he agreed and he was contacting the teacher for more information and an explanation. 10-4 detective, good luck cracking the case of the Confidential Peer Evals. Bet you'll get real far with that.
The really unfortunate thing is that I tried to be less vindictive in my evaluation than I actually am in real life. So I gave these douches the equivalent of an 88 and a 93 on this particular element (much lower on another, but fortunately that one's not on the discussion board yet), and now they are absolutely going to believe I was single-handedly responsible for them getting a C in the class. No good deed goes unpunished!
2 comments:
Sadly they probably do think it was you - they'll expect consistency. But in the big picture they obviously didn't learn their lesson about group participation if they're already pointing the blame of their constructive feedback on the other person instead of on themselves for sucking at life. I hope for your sake you never have to work with these idiots again - although your blogs have been quite entertaining!
Backfire alert: Tommy actually loves dirt-eaters.
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