To Be or Not to Be....

That is the question.

I consider myself to be a pretty calm person, but when people deliberately lie to me, or make excuses, I get a little wound up. Hence...my story...

I’m a little upset over something that happened with my final team project for my Management Class. Tell me if you would be at least suspicious or upset, because I am!

Our final team project for my management class was due today. So I did my part and emailed it to the others before hand, and I never heard anything back. So I sent a little email trying to find out if things were wrapped up. And John (name substituted), who was in charge of putting all of our writing together, emailed me back and said that he had it all under control. He emailed me the ‘final’ draft and said to email him if I wanted to make any corrections, and quote, "feel free to add anything to the sections that you feel will improve the paper". Soooooo I opened it up and started reading through it…yeah, John is no Stephenie Meyer…let’s put it that way. Fragments and run-on’s EVERYWHERE. So I spent about an hour adding things here and there, and then putting my suggestions for corrections off to the side. I emailed him my changes and said, "don’t be frightened when you see a lot of red, a lot of it is things that I added."

So….at about 8:45 p.m., which I didn't get until 10:30 p.m., I got an email back from him saying, he had made the corrections I suggested but ran the grammar check, and then HAD TO CHANGE EVERYTHING BACK because it wasn't right…..sure...sure...Bologna?? Yes?? So here I am on the eve of when our project is due…do I argue with him, or just let it be?? So I just emailed him back and said, ok looks great…not what I was REALLY thinking but WHATEVER! I was tired. So I went to class this morning and he was there in the parking lot when I got there, and again…he comes up to me and says basically the same thing again…I’m like..Ok. I get it. Whatever… Rar! You can keep reassuring yourself.

Now…I’m not saying that my writing is excellent, or that I’m some kind of genius…however, I do know a thing or two. Thank you Mrs. Wallace for that. I’m pretty positive that he is A) mad at me because I made so many corrections in his writing and he didn’t change them out of spite, or B) he was too lazy to actually go through and make all of the corrections. So I think our project is going to get marked down because he wouldn’t make corrections to HIS poor writing. Then, on top of that, he’s inferring that my corrections were bad, and not grammatically sound. Do I have idiot stamped on my forehead?? I can assure you that if I actually went in and fixed everything that I suggested…it would get through spell check and grammar check JUST FINE!!!! ARGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

So would you be upset?

Who really trusts their spell/grammer check anyway?