Alright, I know we're all sick of hearing about my no-good teammates and you would have thought this was all over by now. But its not. We still have to turn in our project in its complete form. Basically, we need to document everything into a logical 20 page paper outlining the details.
I fully planned on doing this myself. This is what I do for a living! I write technical documents. Please try to hold back your jealousy of my uber exciting job. Anyways - writing up a document isn't a big deal to me and quite frankly, I've been doing all the writing (as well as EVERYTHING ELSE) for this project anyways. Why not just finish it up? I've seen some of the writing my no-good team has done and its awful.
So, I received this e-mail today:
Did we have a plan on doing the last paper?
[sigh] Yes. I e-mailed you douchebags a week ago outlining what I thought should be included in the paper into nice, easy to understand headings. Unfortunately, I didn't write that. I don't have it in me to be super mean (I guess that makes me a fake?) because it doesn't really get you anywhere. So I politely wrote back the same thing I wrote over a week ago.
Team Member 1's response:
Sounds good to me. Do you have a page count estimate for each of the tasks?
and then Team Member 2's response:
Yea, and i'm guessing this is more along the lines of everyone writing their own sections out right? Rather us typing it out together....
Actually, Team Member 2 sent this e-mail right before he read this specific e-mail pertaining to the paper:
we need to focus on how we are going to do this DSS paper that is due in 5 days. Now do we want to all get together and work on it so we all won't be repetitive by talking about the same things or using the same graphs/data? Or do we want to just write about 8.5 pages each and hope for the best?
And hope for the best? Write 8.5 pages each?!
I don't trust either of them to write this paper. Christ - I don't even think they can explain the calculations that were performed. Do I really leave the fate of this project partly in their hands or take complete controla nd write it up myself? I haven't mustered the energy to write a response.
I just don't trust them.
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They haven't given you any reason to trust them. I wouldn't let them write 8.5 pages independently...and hope for the best. If anything I would get the group together. Your teacher will know if it wasn't done a s group project...but maybe they won't care.
Good luck!!
YAY for peer reviews... Do what you need to then throw them under the bus.
i second jamie on this one. get them all together so you can basically supervise them. then at the end, be like, "ok, i'm going to compile everything we've got and dress it up and present it." then you basically have all creative control over it and you can rewrite anything they fuck up on.
aww, i wish you the best of luck on this one, honey. i have total faith in you, however, they are a different story entirely and i'll have my fingers crossed for you.
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this is the hard part of working on teams. You sometimes, in order to gain the whole experience and stretch yoruself too, is to let other people fail. I, in my old job, never felt anyone could do as good a job as me, but when people treated me like that I was really insulted and thought "fucking trust me to do somethign, maybe not in the same way as you, but successfully".
I am RARELY the devil's advocate. no wait, I'm totally the devil's advocate... but he's not bad. Wait, where am I going.
Oh, sometimes, it's ok to let go of the control and maybe let some of the pressure off. Because what if the feedback THEY give is that you wouldn't let everyone contribute and non team player stuff? And what if that's 86% of the grade? Know what I mean?
Granted, they seem slacker and turd like, but maybe let them dig their own grave/contribute like shining stars - and if you've been as skilled as I'm sure you've been, it will be obvious to the instructor whicch work is yours. AND you'll be perceived as a team player too.
Ok, enough of me being reasonable for ONCE in my life. I gotta go back and be judgemental somewhere :)
I would do one of two things - either get the whole group together to write it because obviously they can't be trusted completely. The other option is have them each write their 8.5 pages and you compile all of it a day or two before it's due so you can read through it and correct things you see fit (grammar, calculations, whatever the mumbo jumbo you use in there). Only problem with that, is if you are so anal about it and won't be happy with any of their work, then option B may not work. But it's a better alternative to "hoping for the best".
i always hated group projects for this exact reason. i could never trust anyone to do anything right. i'd rather do the whole damn thing myself bc then i would feel confident about it at least. i feel for you.
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