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God I hate unreliable people

OREOSpeedwagon

OREOSpeedwagon

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So there's this timeline project due tomorrow (it's a group project, this is exactly why I absolutely HATE group projects) and my friend and me split the information we had to find half and half. I had my half done a week ago, but he said he'd run his half by my house right after school. Well, it's 6:30 and no sign of him. Guess I'll get stuck doing the usual, the whole damn project myself :|
 
make sure you tell the prof or teacher that you did all the work. screw him if he can't do the work. he should be punished for it, not you.
 


<< make sure you tell the prof or teacher that you did all the work. screw him if he can't do the work. he should be punished for it, not you. >>


Problem with that is that many teachers don't take that as an excuse. It's pretty sh*tty. The trick is to pick a good partner.
 


<< God I hate unreliable people >>



And i hate you too... 😀

j/k
 


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<< make sure you tell the prof or teacher that you did all the work. screw him if he can't do the work. he should be punished for it, not you. >>


Problem with that is that many teachers don't take that as an excuse. It's pretty sh*tty. The trick is to pick a good partner. >>


yeah but if you do it yourself and do it well, then you should get all the credit for it. when i had to pick up slack i still made sure the project was perfect and then told the teach that so and so didn't help. i get all the credit. so and so has to either do his own or get an F.
 


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<< make sure you tell the prof or teacher that you did all the work. screw him if he can't do the work. he should be punished for it, not you. >>


Problem with that is that many teachers don't take that as an excuse. It's pretty sh*tty. The trick is to pick a good partner. >>


yeah but if you do it yourself and do it well, then you should get all the credit for it. when i had to pick up slack i still made sure the project was perfect and then told the teach that so and so didn't help. i get all the credit. so and so has to either do his own or get an F. >>



That's exactly how I feel. People know that I make good grades and decide that I should just do it all. And the thing is, I trust myself to do the project itself, since every time someone else takes the lead part of a project, it looks like crap and the whole group gets a bad grade. And this guy's been like this every time we've been in a group together, he doesn't do anything with the project. And he doesn't even tell me ahead of time (like this time, for instance) that he won't be able to get his part to me. It just makes me even more mad when he says he's going to bring it by after school, but doesn't. I wait an hour or so, thinking maybe he's just running late or something. 3 hours later, I'm doing all the work.
 
On my first project in ISM graduate school, one of our partners took off for a business trip the week before the project was due. It was a planned trip...he just never told us. He never tried to push us to finish the week before...nothing.

We just decided to do the work for him, get our As and thought his ways would hurt him in the future.

I'll drag someone's butt as long as I get my grade.
 


<< On my first project in ISM graduate school, one of our partners took off for a business trip the week before the project was due. It was a planned trip...he just never told us. He never tried to push us to finish the week before...nothing.

We just decided to do the work for him, get our As and thought his ways would hurt him in the future.

I'll drag someone's butt as long as I get my grade. >>



That's how I was before, but the past 2 years we've had so many group projects I'm just sick of everybody getting the same grade as me, but not doing anything. It just pi$$es me off :|
 
yeah, group projects are the worst, no matter if the people in your group are friends or strangers. i always end up doing a disproportionate share of the work b/c people are lazy. thank god i'm graduating and won't have to deal with this sh!t in law school.
 
i had to do an engineering project freshman year in college, and this friggin slut decided that she wouldnt help me with it, i had to write up a whole friggin paper, design, and build a house to specs, and present it all by myself...i told the professor and she ended up failing the class
go me~!
 
I give my students an anonymous grading sheet and have them rate everyone's performance, including their own. I mention it frequently long before projects are due. Still there are always one or two people that try to slouch their way through. So now I have a rule where if someone has not contributed at all by a certain point (based on the group wishing to tell me that), they are given a warning and then purged from the group if they do not participate. Last sememster one guy lost all the group points from that. He was pissed, but he had been warned multiple times and his other group members were sooooo happy. The other thing is that, if the anonymous group evals all seem to indicate that someone is slacking and they have a borderline grade, I take that into account. I also notice if someone got really outstanding evals from their group. But honestly, you can *usually* tell within the first month which group/person is going to cause trouble and intervene in not so obvious ways.

I would definitely make it clear to your prof (in a professional manner) that this occurred; hopefully they will care. I have also *been* in a number of hideous group projects, so that is where my ideas as an instructor originated :|
 


<< I give my students an anonymous grading sheet and have them rate everyone's performance, including their own. I mention it frequently long before projects are due. Still there are always one or two people that try to slouch their way through. So now I have a rule where if someone has not contributed at all by a certain point (based on the group wishing to tell me that), they are given a warning and then purged from the group if they do not participate. Last sememster one guy lost all the group points from that. He was pissed, but he had been warned multiple times and his other group members were sooooo happy. The other thing is that, if the anonymous group evals all seem to indicate that someone is slacking and they have a borderline grade, I take that into account. I also notice if someone got really outstanding evals from their group. But honestly, you can *usually* tell within the first month which group/person is going to cause trouble and intervene in not so obvious ways.

I would definitely make it clear to your prof (in a professional manner) that this occurred; hopefully they will care. I have also *been* in a number of hideous group projects, so that is where my ideas as an instructor originated :| >>



I wish there were more teachers like you 🙂 I like the anonymous grading sheet, wish my teachers did that.
 
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