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On Saturday, we got our case study up and running. I noticed he'd changed two of the subnets and a few of the device names. His explanation was he thought the subnets worked better and I'd mentioned I wanted more descriptive names. I had agreed to leave them as they were. I used the original subnets and device names in numerous tables we had to have to turn in. This meant I had to adjust them. I wasn't very happy about that. I wanted to finish the few testing tables left and be done with it so I could start studying for finals. Our classroom teacher signed off on the demonstration after testing it as much as he could think to test it. I saved all the settings onto my USB thumb drive so I could work from the actual data. I didn't think there would be a lot to change on the documentation until I got home. He'd completely revamped most of what we'd agreed upon. He didn't give me the breakdown of what he'd done for the subnets, so I got to figure them all out again. Grrr.
The more I had to do just to figure out what he'd done, the angrier I got. I essentially had to recreate about 10 hours worth of work. And this was after I'd gotten very little sleep last week trying to get it all done by Saturday.
You know what the more descriptive names were? He expanded his abbreviations from "rtr" to "Router" and "sw" to "Switch." Um, that's not what I meant. More descriptive to me would be "rtrAdmin" for the one in the administration office, etc. I'd mentioned that to him in the original discussion but he managed to miss that. He also managed to forget we were supposed to be a team. The only part of the design we had going in the lab that I'd contributed was which ports on the switches belonged to which group. Whoop-de-freakin-doo.
When we talked about this in the break during class last night, he tried to tell me I had the ability to change it at any point. I looked him in the eye and said, "No, I didn't. When I suggested things you shot them all down." He didn't argue the point. He knew it was true. I told him that when you're on a team and you agree on a design, you can't just go changing things unilaterally without communicating with your partner. His excuse was that he changed it all on Friday night and we got it going on Saturday. I was at my Uncle's party on Friday night.
I just looked at him and told him that was a little late in the project to be changing things so drastically. Did he have any idea what a royal pain the tables are in the documentation? I hate tables in Word. I had to adjust them all to make the longer names fit and still have the table fit on the page. There were so many changes, including two other subnets I hadn't noticed on Saturday that I didn't get it done to turn in on Monday. I told him it made me feel like his secretary and not his lab partner. That made my point go home with him. He realized I was right. He was treating me like a secretary and not a full-fledged lab partner. He apologized.
Now I understand why he was so difficult to meet with. He didn't want to design this together. He wanted to do the fun part and have someone else do the f-ing drudge part of it.
I think next quarter, I'll work with one of the other women for our case study. Then I won't have idiot male attitude expecting me to do all the pretty paperwork and none of the fun creative design part.
The more I had to do just to figure out what he'd done, the angrier I got. I essentially had to recreate about 10 hours worth of work. And this was after I'd gotten very little sleep last week trying to get it all done by Saturday.
You know what the more descriptive names were? He expanded his abbreviations from "rtr" to "Router" and "sw" to "Switch." Um, that's not what I meant. More descriptive to me would be "rtrAdmin" for the one in the administration office, etc. I'd mentioned that to him in the original discussion but he managed to miss that. He also managed to forget we were supposed to be a team. The only part of the design we had going in the lab that I'd contributed was which ports on the switches belonged to which group. Whoop-de-freakin-doo.
When we talked about this in the break during class last night, he tried to tell me I had the ability to change it at any point. I looked him in the eye and said, "No, I didn't. When I suggested things you shot them all down." He didn't argue the point. He knew it was true. I told him that when you're on a team and you agree on a design, you can't just go changing things unilaterally without communicating with your partner. His excuse was that he changed it all on Friday night and we got it going on Saturday. I was at my Uncle's party on Friday night.
I just looked at him and told him that was a little late in the project to be changing things so drastically. Did he have any idea what a royal pain the tables are in the documentation? I hate tables in Word. I had to adjust them all to make the longer names fit and still have the table fit on the page. There were so many changes, including two other subnets I hadn't noticed on Saturday that I didn't get it done to turn in on Monday. I told him it made me feel like his secretary and not his lab partner. That made my point go home with him. He realized I was right. He was treating me like a secretary and not a full-fledged lab partner. He apologized.
Now I understand why he was so difficult to meet with. He didn't want to design this together. He wanted to do the fun part and have someone else do the f-ing drudge part of it.
I think next quarter, I'll work with one of the other women for our case study. Then I won't have idiot male attitude expecting me to do all the pretty paperwork and none of the fun creative design part.
