This is something I wanted to said a long time ago.
Everybody, Picture this.
A team member does a head start on the 5-member GROUP project without informing the other group members. Then this team member sends out a 30-slide powerpoint presentation to the rest of the team, and asks if anyone has anything to add on top the work he has done. Another two team members pair up and decide to edit the powerpoint by cutting out the excessive information, and at the same time leaves comments stating why they did so and why those information should be left out. On top of that, the pair adds on 6 slides that are not as in-depth as the initial 30 slides. They send their small contribution back to that team member. That was the last time they heard from him.
However the "high-initiative" team member takes it badly that the pair deleted so much of his copy-and-paste research, he in turn ignores their rationale of doing it and deletes their contributions altogether. He then keeps the final outcome of the presentation to himself and a close friend, who is also in the group, and leaves the rest of the team assuming that the it is in the modified state they had last seen. Before the day of presentation, this team member sends out the script he prepared for the entire team. Then, spliting the presentation into sections labelled only by their numbers (1-8, 9-18 and so on), he tells the remaining 4 team members to pick parts to present on.
On the day of presentation, the appaling truth on what the "team leader" had done sets in on 3 of the group members. Their contributions were gone and the whole presentation was back to square one. Slide after slide, redundant and extremely technical information was flashed, leaving the audience and themselves with very puzzled looks. The "team leader" and his friend chooses to overlook this glaring point and continues to read, word for word, off their scripts.
As the presentation wears on, the presenatation grader taps on his watch and frowns, while the moderator slums over his table. Frustration and distress begins to show clearly on thru the body language and facial expressions of the 3 group members. Soon, they can no longer hold it off, and tells the presenting party to stop reading off the script altogether. YET, he rigidly continues to do so...
'Til a point where the grader tells the group straight, to skip everything that is left move on to presenting the 3D-model. Tragically, the 2nd presentor still stubbornly tries to finish his part before the whole team screams at him to STOP.
After it all ends, the 3 digusted group members storms out of the room while the script-reading duo goes up to the grader and the moderatot to enquire how badly they did. The moderator points out that teamwork is obviously lacking and the other 3 group members made faces during their presentation. This is where the duo goes on to say that the 3 team members are free riders and they did not contribute "anything" but critism to their powerpoint. Then they request to split up and to handle the next assesment by themsleves...
(Of course the stupid grader bought their cock-and-bull story.)
From the above illustration, I would like to point out that the above accusation is a startling mis-use of vocab here. Because a free-rider is someone who DOES not contribute anything to the group project. Deleting somebody's contributions, no matter how meager, does NOT make him/her a free-rider, but it sure makes YOU a scheming, conniving, manipulating brat and liar. Maybe you didn't mean it; only because your grasp of english is only up to THAT level.
I think it's pretti darn obvious who and what i'm talking about. I don't need anyone to agree with me, but at least the truth is out. I actually know both sides of the story ok... I won't keep all the shit to myself anymore. That's what you get for rolling your sparsely-lashed, protruding eyeballs at ME when I didn't even do or say anything! You're beneath me. PERIOD.
