Son of a !@#$%^&

You know when you're working in a group project and you expect everyone to do their part in order to get things done? Ha, take out 'everyone' and replace it with majority or very few people. Seems as though one or two people don't do shit. This leads me to say that...I HATE WORKING WITH GROUPS! I wish I can yank their hairs out and kick them in the face! Yeah, I'm that pissed off. I can never work with people who sit there like couch potatoes while watching everyone else do their part as if this is at a sweatshop.

ANYWAY . . .

I was at my YDAPP meeting yesterday with Anna and just when she was about to facilitate the meeting, this girl [who will remain anonymous] comes in. Just when I was getting out from the bathroom, I turn around and hear her asking me 'Hey Abby, can you not tell Ernie that I'm here yet?' I had this WTHELL look and said 'Okay, sure.' Then I walked into the meeting room and assumed that she'll make it late to the meeting. A few other members later came in and the meeting started. Ernie announced the people who couldn't make it, and that girl was one of them. As soon as I heard that, I was pretty fucking pissed. I thought she stayed in the bathroom for a while and would eventually come out for the meeting. Well I was certainly wrong about that.

I told Anna about it before the meeting started and she and I were thinking what the heck was that about. Sadly, one of Anna's group members couldn't make it due to a family emergency, and since that girl'decided to take off, Anna had to do the group presentation by herself. It was obviously unprepared and the group had lack of communication. I can understand that one of the members had a family emergency, but the other was a total ditcher. I felt pretty bad for Anna as she was struggling to figure out how to make a discussion regarding a survey she made up. There wasn't enough feedback and Ernie was very disappointed at how things are going with everyone else. I don't blame him for feeling that way at all and he has every right to be. We're losing some members from YDAPP due to other reasons and we haven't exactly got anything accomplished so far. I don't even know if I want to continue with the program if the progress isn't getting better.

Once everyone left, it was Anna, Ernie and I that stayed for a while. I was so tempted to tell Ernie what just happened, but I wasn't sure because I didn't want to cause any conflict. Anna didn't have the guts to admit it and was too angry over what's been going on. If I left the office, I would regret not saying anything and my guilt would be bugging me for a while. So I couldn't continue to keep it in anymore. I told Ernie the story with that girl and my encounter with her at the bathroom. He seemed not only disappointed, but angry at the fact that she took off without notice. Obviously, it was unacceptable and something that we couldn't avoid. It was mostly me who explained of the past incidents that had to do with that girl, saying she's not contributing enough in anything to do with group work and goes around doing her own business. I was blunt and didn't care a bit on what's going to happen next. I guess you can say I don't take crap from ANYONE, especially her.

Finally, Heaven has answered our prayers when Ernie said he's thinking of dismissing her from the program due to her actions and lack of focus. I couldn't be more happier to be honest. Some members were already disgusted and tired of her crap, but decided to keep it lowkey. The only thing I'm anxious about is what's going to happen this Saturday at our YDAPP dinner. Someone might bring up the incident which is something I kind of want to avoid. Whatever, if it happens then it happens. I've said what I wanted to say and I definitely have no regrets. At least people don't have to deal with her shit anymore. Hallelujah hollaback!

Anna later thanked me for speaking up on the situation when my dad and I dropped her home. I told her I was eventually going to do it anyway even if yesterday wasn't the day...thank God. As soon as I got home, I went on Facebook to check my stuff and I couldn't believe I had more than 90 notifications OVER ONE PHOTO. No offense but that shit was beyond annoying. I couldn't read all of the comments since it was a long list. Anyway, the one who couldn't make it because of an emergency IMed me on Facebook. I briefly told her what went on and I wasn't surprised about her reaction. I kind of snucked around her profile that had a 'Wall to Wall' conversation between her and that ditcher. It was hilarious to find out that she had no idea the presentation was yesterday and said this...

'Oh I don't even know if I'll be able to come back next week because Ernie's thinking of kicking me out woohoo.'

...what a bitch, right? YEAH.