Intolerable team mates

          Recently we've been assigned with teammates for our final assignment, which means we're stuck with one person for the whole semester, and our grades depend on each other. No big deal. Pick people on random. Go ahea- oh wait you actually did that.

          I've been stuck with the new classmate. She has work experience in advertising, which is what this class is, she already has a diploma in advertising and graphic design, sounds great right? Nope. Every single task, she'll say "why don't we make our target audience mothers? Because I made a study on mothers before this." or "What if we made a vending machine for noodles? Because that's what I did when I worked for Maggi." My god, shut up. Have you ever thought about maybe having different ideas?

          It'd be nice if it was something like 'oh, our target audience is working young adults? Great! I have what we need right here.' instead of 'oh, our target audience is working young adults? How about we completely switch focus and target people who don't need targeting at all? Because I dealt with that once, and I only know about things I've already done.' Perfect. Just the kind of teammate everyone wants.

          How about you start thinking about things that can actually be done? I know you're older and you have experience, and a newer iphone, but you have to know that there are some things you're just not that good at. Food photography for example. Part of our assignment was to create a new recipe for instant noodles. Don't be like 'here, why don't I take pictures instead' after I've already taken pictures (and mine were used in the end anyway). You don't know how to use an iphone OR an iphone camera. Swipe left god damn it, you don't have to unlock your phone and find the camera app EVERY SINGLE TIME, the food is burning.

        AND I'm the one cooking too. We had to go shopping to buy some ingredients that I didn't have, because I'm a nice, generous person, so I volunteered some ingredients that I already had. Makes sense right? So we bought tortilla wraps, instant noodles, and mushrooms. And I used my butter, chicken, cheese, and broccoli.  Some of these things are more expensive than the other. So she offered oh so generously to pay for half of the food we bought just then, but she fully intended to take half the ingredients home with her. Not just that, she absolutely LAYERED the wraps with cheese. MY cheese. And it's not cheap cheese either. She even said afterwards, 'you know, I don't eat noodles or mushrooms or wraps, but I do eat cheese'. Dude, I'm not gonna give you my cheese. My cheese is my life. Anyway, she never offered to pay for my ingredients that we used.

          What also sucked was that even though my ideas were the ones that the lecturer liked, she got all the glory because she talks more than me (too much in fact) and now the lecturer thinks it's all her idea. And since the photos were on her phone, it looks like she cooked it too. I know it's partly my fault for being quiet, but MOST people would say 'Jo had an idea that bla bla bla' or 'Jo cooked the food bla bla bla' because most people are decent.

          The thing about all of this that really annoys me is she's not doing it on purpose. I can't even really be mad at her because she doesn't know what she's doing. It's so frustrating. And I have to deal with it for the whole semester. 6 months! Argh. Time to train my patience.