This will be more of a story than a rant, especially since it has a happy ending. No, it's not about Transformers. Anyway, here goes.
We had Talent Management course as the last subject of the second semester of the General Management Magister program. And we had the final exam last Thursday in a form of group presentation, the topic was to discuss a case within a company, the catch is that both the case and the company has to be real, the solution must also be reasonable enough to be actually implemented. So you can't go ahead and make a drug cartel company, sadly.
And here's the problem, my group consists of a super busy workaholic who actually (claimed to) love her job, another super busy and dedicated ladies man whom I strongly suspect is being manipulated by his company to be a constant overtime slave, a this-shit-has-nothing-to-do-with-my-life-so-I-won't-even-bother guy, and a lazy introverted jackass (me). I think you know where this is going.
Hint: not Narnia
We decided to pick a case that comes from a company owned by my uncle, which is good for us because aside from the fact I know the owner and the HR manager, I can easily find any data that we would need. However there was never a concrete discussion on how we should approach the case, nor how to analyze and provide solutions. The only thing I knew was what data should I gather to cover the basics, and yet when I delivered those data not a single soul made at least a commentary out of them, everyone just maintained silence like they have been ordered by some mafia or something
After several emails which were participated by me and me alone, we (minus that other guy who still ignored everything) finally made a proper discussion... and it was on the day of the final exam (our class is in nightime, which explains the frequent encounters with Batman). So in the end we were able to make the presentation powerpoint, 20 minutes before the class started, and with barely no time to practice anything because, well, there was nothing to practice with before. It's like we finally got our lightsaber but have no goddamn clue on how to use it.
We all know how dangerous it is
We were already discouraged by how the other groups seemed to have discussed their case thoroughly, and not to mention their presentation were a lot more detailed and flashy compared to ours. And the facilitator only added the salt to the wound by destroying the first groups with questions, so much that I really wanted to go home so badly right then.
And then it was our turn, we stuttered a lot during presentation (no practice, remember) and the guy who didn't get himself involved completely missed the point of his part. I was already panicking. Finally the questions came up.... and the facilitator kindly pointed out the answers that were already within our presentation powerpoints. And to top it all off, he praised us for "simple yet effective presentation" and told the rest of the class that they "should follow our example".
I just lost it right after that, my face burned red, I was snickering so much to the point of near all-out laughter. We were hoping to gain points during the presentation itself by improvising stuffs along the way because the presentation slides was so plain, yet those slides were actually our strong points.
He might be infatuated by kemonomimi Verniy, which totally makes sense
After the 4th group done their job (we were the 3rd) the exam was finally over, 2 hours later than it should've had, and everyone finally breathe a sigh of relief. Granted, that was the most challenging exam we ever had compared to the ones we used to do which were written tests, because we needed to improve on the fly. And of course the Group Final Project for our graduation later will be a lot harder, so it was actually a very nice method of practice before that.
Sadly that day also mark the last day of one of our buddies, he will be attending in another college next semester (which earned him a lot of teasing from everyone). He's a good man who have the inner talent to make jokes out of nowhere and make people laugh, although sometimes he use that talent to get out of serious discussions. Hopefully he'll be happy and make a lot of friends over there too, and not regretting his decision.
Well, that's pretty much it. So the morale of the story are as follows:
- Never give up even though the situation looks hopeless
- Sometimes you need to take one for the team
- Don't be an ignorant member, there is an 'i' in a 'team' which is right there in the A-hole
- The content always worth a lot more than the accessories
- Hibiki/Verniy is so cute
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