» Mistaken Identity

They even like the same drink.
My father, who's been in the design industry for a few decades now, is a dead ringer for the head of the Graphic Design course at the University I attend. There's been a few times where I've walked around the corner, bumped into him and asked "uh...what are you doing here?" only to be met with "I run the bloody department!" acting as a sharp reminder that my father is not following me, thankfully.
(Fri 1st Jun 2007, 2:12, More)

» And that's the thanks I got

I'll schedule interviews more carefully in future.
Its the last three weeks of term at Uni and we have another project dumped on our laps, to complete while we work on our Final Major Projects, something I'd already lost time on after doing a work placement on the other side of the country for two weeks. The day the briefing of the new project is given Im not around, Im in London meeting prospective clients for a long term job (got it!) and by the time I make it home, Uni's been long closed. Being the end of the week, I figured no problem, I'll phone a friend and get the details, bugger its a team project.

Monday morning Im one of the first in and ask if there are any teams with a spot open (max number 4 people to a team) and I hear there are a few other people who weren't in on the briefing day. After I read the brief, I think that I could probably do the project on my own, if allowed (its the kind of work I enjoy doing anyway) but no, just across the room are three guys asking me to join their team. Two of them I know for a fact never do any work, the other has the ability but is usually too tired (or off his face). I get landed with the three stooges who for the following two and a half weeks do nothing. I end up doing 95% of the project just to make sure that the group passes so I don't get a fail on the project myself. I spoke to the course leader who was marking the project and was told if I mark all of my own work and make it clear what I did and what they did (or didn't do) on the project then I should have nothing to worry about.

Hand in day comes, we do the presentation and it goes fairly smoothly (all the while Im trying to control the growing rage I have) and we hand the work in, or rather, I hand in my work, one lad hands in a sketchbook with two pages of doodles on it, and the other two disappear afer handing in nothing.
We get the marks back, im given a 2.1 and not far off a 1st, the others get border line 2.2's. They deserved 3rds or less, the thanks I got? The usual smart alec remarks from the idiot who'd done nothing, thinking he's a genius, a "yeah thanks for doing everything" from another and a nod from the third.

Oh yes, I lost another two weeks on my final major project after giving all my time to carry those three through the project, so in all I lost four weeks on the FMP and am looking at a probably 3rd on it. Thanks guys.
(Thu 24th May 2007, 13:48, More)