Don't you hate stupid/lazy teammates in school projects? I sure do. Update: Stupid teammate emails me half-rate garbage!

[Phokus]

Lets see, i have a group project in finance, 2 of my group members dropped out and it's just me and the girl. I do about 70% of the project and it's due in 5 hours. The girl disconnected her phone for the past 3 days and emailed me yesterday afternoon (SHE USED ALL CAPS HIGHLIGHTING THE URGENCY OF THE SITUATION) saying that she was going to email me her portion of the project during the night. I wake up today and there's nothing in my inbox. UH OH. So i call my professor and tell her the situation and she tells me that i should just hand in my portion if my partner doesn't hand in hers and i'll get the full grade.

Boy is my partner going to be red in the face when she gets a big fat goose egg for a grade!

:laugh:

Update: Stupid girl just emailed me with 'her part'. SHE FORGOT TO DO A FRIGGIN PART OF THE PROJECT. F this, i'm telling my professor to grade my part seperately from hers, skimming through the work she did, i can tell it's half-rate garbage.

Update 2: wow, she just emailed me asking help on the part that she forgot to do. I told her to ask help from someone else (who happens to be knowledgeable on the subject, but is probably very busy). Haha, what a procrastinating ditz.

 

[her209]

Its a fact of life.

 

[globalcitizen]

Stick it to her. In other ways as well.

 

[walla]

This is the story of my life.

I'm in grad school, and I still get teamates who decided to drop out and cut off all contact with you. Then you show up at the final presentation with half a project that doesn't work.

Just do what you can do and be done with it. That's what I say.

 

[chrisms]

I'm usually the lazy one, so no

 

[Phokus]

Originally posted by: chrisms
I'm usually the lazy one, so no

Someone should kick your ass... for the rest of us who have to suffer because of people like you :|

 

[chrisms]

Originally posted by: Phokus

Originally posted by: chrisms
I'm usually the lazy one, so no

Someone should kick your ass... for the rest of us who have to suffer because of people like you :|

It's easier to let you do the work while I get the A

 

[globalcitizen]

Funny related story. Me and my buddy teamed up in Physics. He did all the weekly hw and half of the labs. Yet I get an A and he gets a B. :laugh:

 

[Biggerhammer]

I told my profs if I was hauling deadwood- which happened most times there was a group project. It is unfortunately good training for the real world, though.

 

[Modeps]

Back in college, I had to do my capping project with 3 other guys. At the end of the project we were to rate each other's performance, dolling out 20 points between the four of us.

Two of the jokers didnt do jack. The night before it was due, myself and one other pulled an all nighter and finished the whole thing while the other two never showed up.

We gave them 0 points, and ourselves 10 points each... they gave each of us 5 points each....

Professor said he would flunk people if they didnt pull their weight, he lied, they got C's while we got A-'s.

Moral: Life isnt fair.

 

[Baked]

Meh, we just leave the lazy fvck's name off the paper.

 

[Cleaner]

Step one: Rip into teammates.
Step two: Rip into Prof about Teammates
Step three: Rip into Dean of Department, they've got nothing else better to do.

 

[cjgallen]

Group projects == suckness

 

[Rock Hydra]

I sure do.

 

[SouthPaW1227]

I prefer it. I'd rather me do all the work and do it right than some loser do a half-arsed attempt and screw up the whole project, in which I have to go fix.

I just let 'em freeload. But I greatly prefer singlemanned projects.

 

[fs5]

welcome to the real world.

 

[BriGy86]

Originally posted by: Phokus
Lets see, i have a group project in finance, 2 of my group members dropped out and it's just me and the girl. I do about 70% of the project and it's due in 5 hours. The girl disconnected her phone for the past 3 days and emailed me yesterday afternoon (SHE USED ALL CAPS HIGHLIGHTING THE URGENCY OF THE SITUATION) saying that she was going to email me her portion of the project during the night. I wake up today and there's nothing in my inbox. UH OH. So i call my professor and tell her the situation and she tells me that i should just hand in my portion if my partner doesn't hand in hers and i'll get the full grade.

Boy is my partner going to be red in the face when she gets a big fat goose egg for a grade!

:laugh:

good to know that your professor see things in your percepective, im sure if the girl does get a zero your professor will be laughing along with you

that should teach your teamate to hold up her end of the deal:thumbsup:

 

[BriGy86]

Originally posted by: Baked
Meh, we just leave the lazy fvck's name off the paper.

this is a good plan also

 

[BobDaMenkey]

Yep. I'm having to deal with that in my final physics project. First day of work, no one shows up to help get my materials from my truck to the class. No one brings stuff for glue, no one brings box cutters.

It's freaking pittiful.

 

[SagaLore]

Yes I hate that. And just my luck, everytime I had a group project I got stuck with the bozos of the class (has a lot do with that being an untraditional student, I never know anyone in the class). They don't do any of the work. I try to make it as easy on the others as possible - last time I told them just collect the data, present it in outline format, and I'll put it into power point and the do rest. Well this one guy just cut and paste a bunch of websites into a word document and gave that to me. :|

 

[Toasthead]

I hate slackers in general

 

[BriGy86]

i went to a partners house to film a play on some geek mythology...

i got over there and they were all getting drunk, one guy even puked

i hated those people with a passion

 

[DaWhim]

:thumbsup:

 

[sohcrates]

yeah, i'm in grad school as well and can't believe at this level people *still* are lazy for group work. i mean, maybe i care too much? but it *is* my grades (and if i don't get at least a B work won't compensate me for school.)

especially since we live all over (different towns) versus all being on the same campus, it's next to impossible to meet up or to even get them on the phone sometimes.

 

[SouthPaW1227]

where are all you guys (responsible) when it comes to finding group members?