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Concerns about the group/Wednesday meeting thoughts

On Wednesday as it is wellbeing week, we decided as a group that we would come into uni to decide on things for the project, as it is getting closer to deadline and it feels as if we have little to no work done. 

Last week we decided to set a task for us all to bring in on Wednesday, it was to have at least 10 sketches that we can use to decorate the boxes on our installation. I completed these drawings and have attached them at the bottom. When I got in everyone apart from Glenn had completed these drawings, and charlotte had only done 4 when we specified 10 minimum. 

Charlotte also said something suspicious, she said ‘I only did the soap because I thought it was cute’ which when I’m drawing, I wouldn’t even think one of my drawings is going to be cute until I’ve done it. Also, the theme we were going for was climate change, recycling etc, and soap doesn’t exactly strike me as fitting with this theme. 

She also sent us the illustrator file and it was laid out really odd, as somethings were grouped and others weren’t, it was very odd to look at, and looked vastly different from any of the rest of the groups formatting. So, since we have noticed her plagiarising work in the past, we decided to google the images, we immediately found everyone of her drawings online, except the leaf, each of these drawings were off of copyrighted sites. Plagiarism is not okay in any way, as it is legally and morally wrong.

To combat this issue, we decided as a group that we would tell Juan as he would be able to sort the whole ordeal without there being any confrontation between us. We decided that I would speak to him, as I’ve had a history of her taking credit for my work, as I was the one that was most willing to speak up against her. Juan said that he would speak to her and do a lecture on ethics within the industry. 

We have also had an issue with her in the past due to when we do presentations, she never contributes to the presentation at all. For instance, with the first Home presentation we all worked on the slides separately on google slides, and since I had cheerleading from 7pm-9pm the night before I stayed up until 3am drawing characters so there would be some visual aids for the presentation.

Then mike gave us these forms that we had to fill in to rate how we felt the presentation went, and she rated team work a 2 out of 10, and when mike asked about that score, she tried to make it seem like we weren’t including her, when we gave her every opportunity to add work and she did not take one of them. 

Honestly I’m trying to be diplomatic but this behaviour is not on, even last year when I was in a group with her I did all the work and she took all the credit for it. 

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