Group Work - ARG!!

[BadMagick]

Anyone else have problems working in groups? I dunno ... it might just be me, but it seems like I get stuck in a group with 4 to 5 a**holes every single time I get put in a group for school work.

I'm really ticked off right now because these people can't follow simple instructions.

What do you think I should do? Kick ***? Tell the prof?

[nobody]

I recommend a good cry.

I can't work in groups either, when we have to I just don't. If I get forced to get in a group I just continue to work by myself while sitting near the *******es. Yup.

[pinx]

wow twitch, that's great teamwork there.

[nobody]

No it isn't.

[Voetsjoeba]

pinxarcasm ...

[pinx]

voet, exactly.

[Aislin]

Get over yourselves and do the work. That's my suggestion. Not trying to be mean or anything. Just, yeah.

[senocular]

yeah, in school it sucks. There's not much you can do but deal with it. Group work gets better later in life though ;) (usually)

[pinx]

i have to work in groups in almost every class i take in college. it's just a part of my major (advertising) to be able to work in a team setting. anyways, yeah, sometimes it majorly sucks, especially if there is a group member that's not doing their part of the work. but most of the times it's a good experience because you get many different points of view vs. only your own. makes projects/ideas stronger.

what i'm trying to say is, have some TOLERANCE and if somebody doesn't follow the directions, they might not be stupid or *******s, they just might not understand so it is up to you as a team member to EXPLAIN it to them.

[Aislin]

Pinx said it better than me. Pinx must be smart.

[pinx]

she is. she's the smartest woman on the face of the earth.

[ahmed]

I can't work in groups either, when we have to I just don't. If I get forced to get in a group I just continue to work by myself while sitting near the *******es. Yup.

[pinx]

what the hell was the point of repeating that? are you just too lazy to type your own response?

d a m n teenagers.

[ahmed]

lol

**** teenagers.. you're very prejudiced pinx..

[pinx]

why thank you.

[Aislin]

My chem teacher taught my why electron configurations work and why those in the valence are transfered so often by saying "Atoms are lazy, and if there's just ONE electron sitting ALL the way out there, are they gonna bother holding on to it? Like teenagers. If you have two tacos in your hands, and 8 tacos rotating around your face, are you going to get off your *** to punch Chlorine in the face when he takes that one taco that is WAY out there in your valence? Hell no."

[Whippersnapper]

That is a brilliantly articulated ethnically diverse metaphor.

[prstudio]

rofl, professors always had a way of putting things

group work is 50/50

different people do things different ways, tolerance is the key- I agree with that whole-heartedly!

I'm one of those who always picked the "or do it yourself" option. But I tell you what, working in some of the groups I've been in, was a blast. Others were eh, kinda iffy. If you aren't getting work done, I would advise doing the assignment on your own, get it done - then also meantime help the group; that way you are covered if it all goes south.

If it is just an opinion fight - yeah get over it...majority always wins my friend. Even if it stinks.

Thats what the group member review sheets are for ;)

[pinx]

i'm taking THE most important class of my undergraduate college career this semester and i have to work in a group the whole semester to come up with an advertising campaign for a client. i like my group though, they aren't too bad and they get stuff done which is good. sometimes we get stuck, but we get ourselves out of confusion somehow.

also, if somebody is not doing what they're expected to do, the group can fire that person.

[prstudio]

ooo that sounds like a neat twist, never had the "fire" option before-

[pinx]

yeah but we have to give the prof a legit reason for firing the person and we all have to reach the same concensus.

[BadMagick]

I agree, you need to be tolerant, but when the only thing these people have to do is give you their AIM names by 11 o'clock that night ... you have to draw the line somewhere.

If these guys can't do something so simple, how can I trust them with something more important?

The grade came in - we have a zero. So that's always a nice way to start off the semester