Dear CJ,

I have gone through all of our group work for the term following your comment yesterday.

While I know I have only been able to do a few last-minute contributions these last 2 weeks, I have tried to be as available as possible and made sure to do some portion of work knowing that I would be very busy with my job and personal commitments. In all previous assignments, I have begun working a few days before the due date. KN has been a great teammate and I recognize that she has carried most of the weight. IM has tended to do things sort of last minute, but still contributes significant portions to the project. And then there is your work.

As I stated, I went through the document history of all of our group work.

You did not contribute anything to the group project proposal. I believe KN said you came up with the project idea, but you did not make any edits to the project proposal. And as we would later find out, the project idea was flawed. This cost us 14 points on HW 3.

For Homework 3, you mostly worked on the spreadsheet for the requirements. However, you really only worked on half of the first concept. You then copied the template to the other 2 sheets but did not fill them out. Your only other major contribution was copying the list of requirements that KN made to the report.

For the midterm, you copied the template, completed section 3.1 (copying and editing a table we made for HW 3), a few sentences in 4.1, 5.6, and 5.8.

For the final project proposal, you made the templates for 3 of the diagrams. As far as I can tell, though, KN, IM, and I filled out and completed the diagrams.

For the final, you worked on the diagrams and added them to the PowerPoint. There are 10 diagrams, 4 of which were already completed for the proposal.

Before doing this deep dive, I already suspected that you were doing the bare minimum of work. I had resigned myself to that fact. But then you sent a message yesterday sharing your disappointment that IM and I had not been able to work on the document more on Saturday.

Coming from someone who has never done more than 10% of the work for an assignment, I found your message rude and insulting. IM and I have been consistent and reliable. We finish the work we agree to do and it is of good quality. Based on our project history, the same cannot be said for you.

I don't plan to continue taking courses in this subject, therefore I do not expect to interact with you or the rest of the group again due to distance. So take a piece of advice from someone with nothing left to lose here: Don't critique the amount of time and effort others are putting into something if you are not going to contribute the same amount. It makes you look like an asshole.