As a busy full time student and part time waitress, I realize that group work can be demanding and everyone must make compromises. I also realize that this is a very professional university program that requires a large amount of collaboration for group projects. Our group has been more then generous enough to accommodate your busy schedule and to keep you up-to-date on our progress. However, you still manage to skip out on every group meeting and provide shitty work. Everyone is completely fed up with your lame excuses and lack of professionalism. Claiming you are sick with pneumonia and then the next day leaving for a hockey tournament is quite unprofessional. You are an ignorant bitch that believes the world revolves around you. I have never in my life had to deal with such a ridiculous person, so congratulations! Just for your information, I have talked to the professor and he is as considered as I am. I hope I this is the last time ANYONE will have to work with you. —Fed-up Group Member
This article appears in Mar 31 – Apr 6, 2011.
Get used to it, OP.
Lemmie guess, you’re in PR, right? (haha ‘very professional program’… yeah, I heard that one plenty o’ times).
I should be sympathizing a lot more than I am because holy FUCK have I worked with some tards in my time on group projects, but… just wait until you hit the real world… a world where you don’t get every Friday off. heh.
Get used to it. It happens in the real world all the time.
..that’s exactly what i was gonna say bt..it’s alife lesson for you ..in your career you’ll find some peeps just suck..
Yeah, and instead of getting rid of them when the class is over, you get to work with them, sometimes, for years.
I disagree. I fucking hated group work when I was in school. In the real world if someone skips off work every day, doesn’t hand in work in time, and essentially does nothing, they will lose their job.
In school, for someone who depends on scholarships, the person who is completely fucking off puts way too much pressure on the rest of the group.
That’s just my opinion though.
Oh I hated group work just as much as you — I hate other people having control over my marks. So I’d always end up being the “leader” and offer to do the editing and put it all together (plus editing is my thing — I’ve been told by my internship supervisors that I should be editing professionally *blush*). My first year in my last program, I had to take an intro course and over 80% of the classes were cited for plagarism and cheating on their final group report because they didn’t know how to paraphrase or cite anything and a huge chunk even failed the project because of it. Meanwhile, my hours and hours spent re writing my group’s work and cross checking and having to re-cite (or just cite) everything landed us with no plagarism citation, and a 98% — the highest mark in the four classes and 250 students. 😉
One thing i will say, though, FA, is, I’ve worked, professionaly, with people in groups who were awful to work with. They weren’t skipping of work, but they weren’t getting their work done on time and since it was on my department, not just her, we had to take up the slack. This person was so “busy” they couldn’t (well wouldn’t) do any work. And when I DID take up the slack I got a call from her yelling at me for ‘overstepping my boundaries.’
I told her to piss off with the full support of my supervisor. That was pretty satisfying, but unfortunately, you can’t always do that. When it’s not just one person on the line and it’s the department, you HAVE to take up the slack, and unfortunately in some work situations (unionized federal public service for example) the person isn’t going to get fired. They’re just going to fester on the ass of the organization for a very VERY long time. *sigh*
groups are one thing o.p., study groups another, but a mental health group therapy is where i see you headed very soon. unless you can untether yourself, from a bunch of shit soon, i see you heading to a mental ward really fucking soon.
team work is important…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGFGD5pj03M
it’s the A-Team!
“more then generous”…. I do believe the required word is THAN…..
“I have talked to the professor and he is as considered as I am.” ~ WTF?
Another scholar from the University of Crayons and Colouring Books submits a b!tch.
You know what LIFESUCKS, even for Love The Way We Bitch, you’re too bitch. Mental ward for not liking to do the work of a slacker in group work?!? Get a clue dumbass! So “unless you can untether yourself” from writing absolute crap, stop posting.
And right on the money with that one Koda.
Is this program located on the Spring Garden Rd campus, OP?
I’ve never really had issues with group work, but I fucking hate type As. Like strict type As who need to re-read, re-mark and re-do everything. However, if someone were to do that, then go ahead just don’t look at me and say, “I did all the work” … yeah ok then.
So don’t put their name on the project or whatever you’re working on? That’s what my university profs always say. In the real world, you can’t just fuck off all the time and expect to get credit for your utter lack of effort or professionalism. So university should be the same. And if you can’t do that, then confront them about it instead of going on here where they probably will never read it. I’ve had too many experiences like yours to have any form of sympathy toward some asshole who at the end of the day is just a lazy dickwad.