Group Project - Annoyances

Risay117 · April 06, 2015, 02:10:41 PM

What is one annoyance do you guys deal with when completing any group project or group task?

For me personally is having people sit around that have nothing to do. Example we have a group report to do and there is 4 people in the group. The report can only be typed by one person and maybe a second to help with some suggestion and ideas, but overall it is a one person job. So why do you need the two other people there if they have nothing to do. Personally i would rather they go and have fun and do something productive either playing or doing something else rather than sit behind you while you type out the report.

Or maybe just do some other job that you need to get done but do not sit around and do nothing cause it is a waste of your time that could be used to help relieve stress or cool down or maybe work on your own hobbies.

Anyway when doing a group project what do you not like to deal with?

Epsira · April 06, 2015, 02:19:20 PM

Me: "Hey, the answer's probably this because [insert logical, reasonable assessment]"
Partner: "...Yeah, I'm just not sure"

Not Comms Officer · April 06, 2015, 02:23:03 PM

When other people in my group don't do anything, and I have to do all the work. And then when I'm done, they complain about my handwriting (since it's pretty much scrawl) despite the fact that if I didn't write anything down, the assignment would have never been done.

gats · April 06, 2015, 02:23:46 PM

i tend to always take the leader role which is annoying

Turkey · April 06, 2015, 02:29:49 PM

In my engineering capstone course (semester or year-long group project applying your lessons), we had a guy that literally did nothing. On the last day when we were set to present to the class, we were preparing in a computer lab beforehand and he had signed onto the computer we were using. We finished the project, and since he was logged on he said he'd email it to each of us so we could load it up in the class. So he did that, logged off, then we went to class. We got there, and 5 minutes before our presentation he realized that he didn't attach the file, and since it was a public university computer it didn't save the data after logging off. Literally our entire presentation was gone.

And that's the day I almost murdered a man.

Mega Sceptile · April 06, 2015, 02:30:11 PM

back in university, this one group of people used to always work together, I mean like they were extremely close and next to no one else worked with them, and one day I was unfortunate enough to get stuck with them. The problem I had with them is that they never talked to me, they never came to me at all during the whole project, and they never let me do anything to contribute to the project, aside from critique the video that they made to go with the Rube Goldberg machine that they left me completely out of.

Risay117 · April 06, 2015, 04:06:43 PM

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on April 06, 2015, 02:29:49 PM

In my engineering capstone course (semester or year-long group project applying your lessons), we had a guy that literally did nothing. On the last day when we were set to present to the class, we were preparing in a computer lab beforehand and he had signed onto the computer we were using. We finished the project, and since he was logged on he said he'd email it to each of us so we could load it up in the class. So he did that, logged off, then we went to class. We got there, and 5 minutes before our presentation he realized that he didn't attach the file, and since it was a public university computer it didn't save the data after logging off. Literally our entire presentation was gone.

And that's the day I almost murdered a man.

That would have been fun to watch.

The Lord Slide Rule · April 06, 2015, 04:08:59 PM

Having to fight to get people to listen to me.

Luis · April 06, 2015, 04:14:17 PM

Quote from: gats on April 06, 2015, 02:23:46 PM

i tend to always take the leader role which is annoying

this

w/e · April 06, 2015, 04:24:54 PM

I hate having to be the leader of unwilling people with too much on their minds. I need them to be quite in their thinking, and for them to give honest replies that have a yes or no answer. No maybes, but hesitation is fine. However, if you think, you distract me, and then I lose my will to be the leader, but since nobody else is willing to, I have to say generic stuff instead of using my mind the way I want to.

Then these people have the nerve to say "No" to my instructions, and they try to reason that we can film later, even though it would take seconds. It honestly made me sad that they weren't willing, and even though it didn't happen once, I still felt betrayed.

I gave up on the assignment completely after a while, and decided that the subject was a waste of my time as I'd always disliked it.

Edit: Oh, and when I step down to let someone else do the leading, they either suck at it, or they're doing all of the work on their own, and not instructing. I just for once wish that someone smart would take up the role of leader. Someone who isn't narrow-sighted.