I'M SURROUNDED BY ***HOLES!

[Shotgun Opera]

You should kick that girl in the balls. That'll learn 'er!

 

[Jfswift]

Welcome to my world. I can totally relate here. This sounds like what I deal with at work every day and it makes me want to pull my hair out and swallow acid. The guy with the crutch i'd totally club over the head too. I have to say though, and before you get upset with me, keep in mind i'm just like you and I get pissed off when people aren't doing their jobs (i've gotten screwed on group activities in school and work before, where people aren't pulling their damn weight.) but I'd just keep it cool and calm a bit. I know they're dumb but you wont have to deal with them forever. (not sure if that helps but I try to take the peaceful road, if possible).

 

[Sovvolf]

Jeez I had this a lot on the media course I just finished. Why is it always the actors that are just... arseholes.I was put for directing/writing, the people I was forced to work with seemed to hate my guts, so they just wouldn't work. I'd ask them to do some thing and they'd just ignore me and go off on their own thing, start talking, start messing around and refusing to do any work . I'd had murdered the lot of them if I could have gotten away with it. The project was finished eventually but well... I completely disown it, works so hard on the script and the story and it turned into trash because no one would co-operate. These where college students too, (young)adults... I'd maybe expect that behaviour at school or from young children but not from adults.

Suffice to say we all got a pass for the project. A pass is almost as bad as a fail for a college course. I could have boosted it with the written work (evalutation ect..) however my written work is my big weak point and I relied purely on my practical work. Was not happy with that, not happy one bit.

Reading some of the comments here I see I'm not alone. Guess all us aspiring directors have this sort of trouble when starting out. Though to be honest I think if I'd be able to pick my own group I wouldn't have had no problem with the activity.

I'm an intimidating person, so if anyone ever fucks around when my group is seriously trying to work I just tell them to sit down and shut up. Mind you I've been known to goof around, but even then I know there's a limit. In the end if it gets out of hand I just boot them out of the group forcefully, or do the entire project without them (I let them take some credit if the teacher isn't helping).

Sadly intimidation doesn't work all that well when your in college. They know just as well as you do that you can't hurt them, unless you want a swift boot off the course entirely along with jail time (The college are obligated to phone the police). You also can't just boot some one off of your team if the teacher assigns you to work with them. No matter how hard they are making it for you... though this may just be how my tutor taught it.

Stop trying to be in control, if they want to fuck around let them don't rise to it because it just sounds like you're the biggest asshole in the group.

I don't care if he makes hurrr durr dick jokes, only people who're equally as childish will rise to such behavior.

With the sounds of things Blathers was the director... controlling is the whole point. Your supposed to give the actors direction, telling them what to do. Blathers sounds pretty justified in his reaction, it's very, very frustrating when your trying to direct people who just want to piss around.

 

[Blatherscythe]

Well we had another class today and the asshat who I swore at took the role I had (I was in the film as well) and turned the characters into cardboards cutouts with no emotions and the plot into a terrible generic slasher flick, I was going for something similar as it was originally a slasher movie, with some pshycological powers, mystery and errie horror mixed in. They decided to drop all of that to make a half-assed effort for some marks and I'm stuck with it and I'm the one editing it! And they butchered it, the jerk even fucked up the computer I was on editing everything on, he selected everything on the desktop and clicked open, I really wanted to find that tripod leg and shove it up his ass for that one.

My inital reactions came as such...

First this after realizing what utter garbage they turned my hard work into.


My reaction to him messing up the computer and all it's unsaved data.

 

[antipunt]

So I found out, annoyingly, that not being annoying is annoyingly impossible. Because even when you purposely try to not be annoying, you end up, surprisingly enough, annoying a subset of annoying people who are annoyed by people who don't speak their minds when annoyed.

Thus, I annoyingly realized that everyone will be annoying to someone else inevitably. It's rather... annoying, to be quite honest.

 

[Blatherscythe]

Welcome to my world. I can totally relate here. This sounds like what I deal with at work every day and it makes me want to pull my hair out and swallow acid. The guy with the crutch i'd totally club over the head too. I have to say though, and before you get upset with me, keep in mind i'm just like you and I get pissed off when people aren't doing their jobs (i've gotten screwed on group activities in school and work before, where people aren't pulling their damn weight.) but I'd just keep it cool and calm a bit. I know they're dumb but you wont have to deal with them forever. (not sure if that helps but I try to take the peaceful road, if possible).

Yes... Peace through superior firepower is the only road to peace in my books...

 

[Tharwen]

Take solace in the fact that they will fail everything they aspire to achieve?

 

[herpaderphurr]

Your post was basically tl;dr, but I get the point.

Everybody is stupid people.

 

[Blatherscythe]

Take solace in the fact that they will fail everything they aspire to achieve?

That just makes me wonder if they want to achieve anything in life. It sure does seem that way.

 

[tjcross]

man i know how you feel i've done projects were i've had to do all the work i wasn't allowed to do anything and was yelled at for doing nothing i've been in groups with my worst enemies. so here's what you do be just as immature as them and then go home and do you own project with the best stuff you have kicking around and give that to your teacher saying this is what i was able to do on my own then with your groups project say and this is what my group did and have a 5-minute video of buddy "using" the tripod leg or something. i mean best case scenario you get a better grade, worst case you get in trouble but it's better than going crazy (i've done a couple projects with groups like this on my own and i have gotten decent grades for it and i've gotten suspended for being almost knocked unconscious i didn't fight or anything schools just have no justice)

 

[oppp7]

That's why I tried to do everything solo back in high school(also, I'm not a team player and treat everyone else like inferiors and end up doing everything or mumble myself into the corner and do nothing).

My advice? Use the script, and the actors, and if you get a bad grade because of it raise hell with the teacher over their inattention.

 

[TheLaofKazi]

When I first glanced at this thread I thought it said IM SURROUND BY ****ING HOLES!

But yeah, I know what you mean. I had to deal with some similar stuff in electronic media class, although it wasn't nearly as bad. Just don't get angry about it, do the best you can, and if it gets too bad talk to the teacher. If they won't listen to the you, they will probably listen to the teacher.

 

[Blatherscythe]

When I first glanced at this thread I thought it said IM SURROUND BY ****ING HOLES!

But yeah, I know what you mean. I had to deal with some similar stuff in electronic media class, although it wasn't nearly as bad. Just don't get angry about it, do the best you can, and if it gets too bad talk to the teacher. If they won't listen to the you, they will probably listen to the teacher.

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!! Oh wait your serious? Yeah, hate to break it to you but the teachers at our schools are generally push overs. The class yacks non-stop and teachers that resist tend to get into a war for control of the class.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

Have you ever been stuck in a group that makes you want to stick a gun in your mouth and pull the trigger? Either because they are immature, childish, idiotic, lazy, or just plain annoying? Well here's my group of assholes, in com and media class I'm stuck doing a script writing project, after we write the script we film it. Well the girl who was originally doing the script said she didn't want to write it, so I offered to and did so. She then turns around and starts writing a script and denounces mine as garbage and calls it stupid even though she hasn't even read the damn thing!

Next up are the two out of our 4 actors, one cannot concentrate on anything and wanders on and off the set, we constantly need to track him down and make him get his shit together. The last one is the worst, we need to make a fake gun for our plot but we cannot use anything that looks like a gun, so we decided to use a broken tripod leg, you know one of the legs that you can adjust to help take the pictures without shaking the camera. Whenever we give this guy the damn thing he pretends to jerk off with it, I wish I was joking and whenever I ask for him to stop and give me the leg he says no it's mine and I literally have to yank it out of his hands to get him to stop. Afterwards he makes a whole bunch of lame mastubation/dick jokes and acts like a 5 year old he wanders around with the leg and always bugs me with it. One time I told the teacher to help me get the leg from him and while the teacher was standing there I told him to pass the leg over and stop acting like a god-damn 5 year old, he then says that I'm the five year old for getting angry with him, I then reply with your the five year old because you cannot stop acting like and asshole and get shit done! That landed me some "to the office time" and I was rather pissed off.

The other guy and I cannot get anything done because the ***** won't get off her high horse (the script she wrote is garbage, it is full of cliches and plot holes), another guy cannot fucking concentrate and the other can't act his fucking age! We can't join another group because they're full and the one we're with won't shut the hell up and do something, even the teacher isn't doing jack-shit. So what group are you, or were with that makes you wan't to say this?


Also I realize this makes me seem like a bossy dick but really that's only when I get angry and even then I only want to get things done. And no I didn't attack that kid I forcefully took the tripod leg from him, I didn't hit him.

Yeah, I have the same problem!

In my 8'th period class, the boys are freaking idiots! I mean, yeah we guys and do stupid shit all some of the time, but you gotta draw a line when you try to look up the teacher dress!

 

[Jfswift]

Welcome to my world. I can totally relate here. This sounds like what I deal with at work every day and it makes me want to pull my hair out and swallow acid. The guy with the crutch i'd totally club over the head too. I have to say though, and before you get upset with me, keep in mind i'm just like you and I get pissed off when people aren't doing their jobs (i've gotten screwed on group activities in school and work before, where people aren't pulling their damn weight.) but I'd just keep it cool and calm a bit. I know they're dumb but you wont have to deal with them forever. (not sure if that helps but I try to take the peaceful road, if possible).

That's catchy =^.~=

Yes... Peace through superior firepower is the only road to peace in my books...

 

[Blatherscythe]

Have you ever been stuck in a group that makes you want to stick a gun in your mouth and pull the trigger? Either because they are immature, childish, idiotic, lazy, or just plain annoying? Well here's my group of assholes, in com and media class I'm stuck doing a script writing project, after we write the script we film it. Well the girl who was originally doing the script said she didn't want to write it, so I offered to and did so. She then turns around and starts writing a script and denounces mine as garbage and calls it stupid even though she hasn't even read the damn thing!

Next up are the two out of our 4 actors, one cannot concentrate on anything and wanders on and off the set, we constantly need to track him down and make him get his shit together. The last one is the worst, we need to make a fake gun for our plot but we cannot use anything that looks like a gun, so we decided to use a broken tripod leg, you know one of the legs that you can adjust to help take the pictures without shaking the camera. Whenever we give this guy the damn thing he pretends to jerk off with it, I wish I was joking and whenever I ask for him to stop and give me the leg he says no it's mine and I literally have to yank it out of his hands to get him to stop. Afterwards he makes a whole bunch of lame mastubation/dick jokes and acts like a 5 year old he wanders around with the leg and always bugs me with it. One time I told the teacher to help me get the leg from him and while the teacher was standing there I told him to pass the leg over and stop acting like a god-damn 5 year old, he then says that I'm the five year old for getting angry with him, I then reply with your the five year old because you cannot stop acting like and asshole and get shit done! That landed me some "to the office time" and I was rather pissed off.

The other guy and I cannot get anything done because the ***** won't get off her high horse (the script she wrote is garbage, it is full of cliches and plot holes), another guy cannot fucking concentrate and the other can't act his fucking age! We can't join another group because they're full and the one we're with won't shut the hell up and do something, even the teacher isn't doing jack-shit. So what group are you, or were with that makes you wan't to say this?


Also I realize this makes me seem like a bossy dick but really that's only when I get angry and even then I only want to get things done. And no I didn't attack that kid I forcefully took the tripod leg from him, I didn't hit him.

Yeah, I have the same problem!

In my 8'th period class, the boys are freaking idiots! I mean, yeah we guys and do stupid shit all some of the time, but you gotta draw a line when you try to look up the teacher dress!

Their that desperate/depraved are they?

 

[The Bum]

Taze them bro!

 

[TheLaofKazi]

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!! Oh wait your serious? Yeah, hate to break it to you but the teachers at our schools are generally push overs. The class yacks non-stop and teachers that resist tend to get into a war for control of the class.

I'm sorry.

It was foolish of me to think that a teacher would be a reasonable, or even slightly intelligent person.

 

[Blatherscythe]

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!! Oh wait your serious? Yeah, hate to break it to you but the teachers at our schools are generally push overs. The class yacks non-stop and teachers that resist tend to get into a war for control of the class.

I'm sorry.

It was foolish of me to think that a teacher would be a reasonable, or even slightly intelligent person.

Don't get me wrong, the teacher is good. He just lacks a backbone.

 

[SPCF]

As much as I hate to say this, I'm probably the one in the group with the broken tripod leg XD
Though I'd actually get the work done, I'd just fool around once in a while XD(unless I'm stuck in a group full of idiots. If so, I'll just be the dictator or something )
And if I'm in a group where I don't fit in as well or feel that I'm not really contributing anything (usually because they don't let me), I'll be the guy that wanders off a lot