How Did Everyone Go For OB?

[ReVeL]

I was going to ask you Jamison! Did you find the OB exam a total mindfuck or was it just me?

Honestly the question was complete bs... And the fact they threw in Part 1 of the case just provided too much shit to process for me. I honestly did not expect culture to come up considering it was on the practice exam. Absolute bsss

Sorry for going offtopic but this thread could be like a UoM exam discussion thread anyway.

[Noblesse]

I was going to ask you Jamison! Did you find the OB exam a total mindfuck or was it just me?

Honestly the question was complete bs... And the fact they threw in Part 1 of the case just provided too much shit to process for me. I honestly did not expect culture to come up considering it was on the practice exam. Absolute bsss

Sorry for going offtopic but this thread could be like a UoM exam discussion thread anyway.

lol it was completely shit. The female lecturer (the one with the irritating voice) was standing near my table, so I sent death glares once I saw Sanrizz/Culture.

The evening before, I was explaining through the theories and case studies with my mother (yay family examination bonding), and I literally said, "Oh, they won't give us Sanrizz/Culture, you can't write anything for that".

...

How on earth can you ask a question about culture, when employees and general workplace life is barely shown...

Fuck you OB.

[Noblesse]

The only positive I had about the exam, was that everyone I talked to found it really difficult, and it looked like a couple people around me gave up and went to work on their Part A answers. Scaling kthx.

Cost management was heavenly lol

[ReVeL]

AHFDSHJSDFH those were my exact thoughts.. "nah they won't ask us about that, it would be ridiculous seeing as they only show the brothers arguing".

That lecturer makes me want to kick babies

The only positive I had about the exam, was that everyone I talked to found it really difficult, and it looked like a couple people around me gave up and went to work on their Part A answers. Scaling kthx.

Cost management was heavenly lol

Yeah most people I've spoken too found it hard... hoping for some badass scaling.

And yeah cost management was pretty good I thought, though I ran out of time so left afew questions which was annoying. I reckon I was in one of the 10 seats in the REB that you physically couldn't see a clock and I didn't have a watch haha

[Noblesse]

AHFDSHJSDFH those were my exact thoughts.. "nah they won't ask us about that, it would be ridiculous seeing as they only show the brothers arguing".

That lecturer makes me want to kick babies

Exactly, good riddance to OB. Bring on IFA and BF, looking forward to those.

And yeah cost management was pretty good I thought, though I ran out of time so left afew questions which was annoying. I reckon I was in one of the 10 seats in the REB that you physically couldn't see a clock and I didn't have a watch haha

That sucks, I had a good view of a clock (didn't in OB though, had to crane my neck which caused some suspicious glances toward me by examiners), but I was drenched. Not bringing an umbrella on like the only rainy day in Melbourne, good one Jamison. Incidentally I almost had my eye taken out five times because of *shorter* people with umbrellas impairing their vision and sense of space....

[ReVeL]

Yeah definately, way I look at it it's the worst subject I'll do at uni completed.. And as for next semester, my mate who did BF this semester described the first few weeks as being like a "brick to the face".

Could be interesting haha!

[Noblesse]

Yeah definately, way I look at it it's the worst subject I'll do at uni completed.. And as for next semester, my mate who did BF this semester described the first few weeks as being like a "brick to the face".

Could be interesting haha!

Oh dear... well as long as I don't get reprimanded every time I use an adjective it should be fun.

In what way though? Complexity? Boredom?

[laynie]

Uh-oh, I'm doing OB next semester..

[ReVeL]

As in difficulty I think... Apparently it's very maths-based and the lecturer just zips through it all.

Uh-oh, I'm doing OB next semester..

I pitty your soul.

[Voltaire]

Yes the 'Analyze Sanrzz's culture' section was a total non-sequitur,
when I was preparing I specifically ruled out Sanrizz/Culture and Solaris/Change, because there was no way you could write more than a few vague sentences for each.
The only thing you could really deduce was that 'upper management has a culture of conflict', or something....Which is in fact wrong because the brothers admitted they only fought because JERRY was asking them confront each other IN THE FIRST PLACE, and normally THEY WOULDN'T ARGUE, to top it off there was no information about the actual staff, or what when on in the actual salons or the education/photography departments.....
And don't get me started on that risible 'intergrationist vs differentiationist' nonsense.
What a joke.
(And this subject is COMPULSORY....)

[Noblesse]

when I was preparing I specifically ruled out Sanrizz/Culture and Solaris/Change, because there was no way you could write more than a few vague sentences for each.

Same here. I was really hoping for Solaris/Power

I ended up writing a huge amount about extensions of the managers' characters, which represented the culture at their stores. Furthermore, the entire point of analyzing culture through the intergrationist & differentiationist methods, was actually viewing how the organisation did things! It's honestly like they wanted to fail us.

[nicholasanthony]

Yeah it was shit. I said to my friend on the train that morning "as long as they don't give us Sanrizz and culture because there is nothing to write, especially based off of part 2".

Throwing in part 1, which i hadn't read, meant I was still reading after reading time.

QM2 will be the death of me though.

[ReVeL]

At least it's over forever.

My goal is to forget absolutely everything I learned during semester in the upcoming holidays, that'll make me feel better.

[Edmund]

Yeah definately, way I look at it it's the worst subject I'll do at uni completed.. And as for next semester, my mate who did BF this semester described the first few weeks as being like a "brick to the face".

Could be interesting haha!

Oh dear... well as long as I don't get reprimanded every time I use an adjective it should be fun.

In what way though? Complexity? Boredom?

Nice, I'm doing Business Finance next sem as well

[laynie]

QM2 will be the death of me though.

I hate that subject so much. The lecturers voice is so annoying.