Work Projects

I don't know how many of you have group projects at work, but my residency class (10 of us) have been assigned to make a video for the end of the year dinner. We were told about this video in July 2010.

Flashback to middle school and high school where we made videos with our friends. Except this time, nobody is interested in doing it.

Having seen prior videos that the other classes have done, I know how big of a deal this is for all the attending physicians. They love to be in the video and they love to be made fun of. They're expecting a funny, good show.

Knowing this, I kept a notepad of ideas that people came up with throughout the year.

Flash forward to January (6 months later) when I send out a mass email to my fellow residents telling them to start thinking about writing scripts and what they'd like to do. In this email, I included a list of all the ideas I had written down over the year as people came up with them.

No one replied.

Flash forward to the end of February (another 2 months later) when the new chief residents are announced and they have a brief sit-down meeting with us to tell us it would be a good idea to get started since filming and EDITING take a very long time.

So I ask everyone to stay a few minutes longer after the meeting to start discussing script-writing. I suggest everyone pick one of the ideas or come up with their own and write a script.

One of my co-residents states that she doesn't have time because she is planning her wedding.

Hmm... so am I.

So I write a skit, then one of my other co-residents writes a skit (yes! 1 person on board)... everyone likes both scripts and thinks they're enough.

Uh... did I mention this video is expected to be 30 minutes... you know, the average time of the average television show written, produced and directed in hollywood?

So then I lay low for a while and work on a couple more skits and ideas and start filming MY skits. This gets people a little interested.

Then lay low again.

Finally 2 weeks ago, a third resident jumps on board and writes a few scripts.

So now 3 out of the 10 of us start filming.

Flash forward to now. We have less than 1 month before the dinner. People finally panic.

My skits are all filmed. They do need work editing, though.

Will it get done? Abso-freakin-lutely.

Will it be good? prolly not

Will I care? DEFINITELY not

Anyone else hate group projects? Raise your hand.