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Yeah, I hate group work too. Just yesterday I got paired with someone who hardly even talked to me when I said something to him, so I pretty much just did it all on my own.
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At one point in time I had a Science project to do and I waited until the last day. It was for an advanced class, and it was given to us four months prior..
AMAZINGLY enough I came up with a B XD I did it on the aging of pine trees and Pinecones and the seeds that inhabt them it was AWSOME XD; although, Ive had group projects where I went ahead and did my OWN thing because the other two people wern't pulling their weight, I also let my physics teach know to that i was the one who did the report, tests, study, EVERYTHING... I got an A on that and he made them both do a 15 page essay that he would only give them a D on :/ serves them right though... |
I really hate working in groups...
I like all of my classmates and stuff, so no problems there. Actually, I only have one issue with groups, but it's huge: I always have to do a bad job to match the other people's expectations |D They basically always say something along these lines: "What? No, we don't have to do that. Don't worry about it, just relax~" Since I'm a total perfectionist, that kills me. We work in groups in half of my classes every day. |
I don't like group work much either, which is lucky because there's usually the option of doing it alone. xD
When I do do group work though, I tend to take it less seriously, and do the absolute, absolute minimum, and spit it up. Like the way I worked with one of my favorite group partners: We'd get the assignment, split it in half. If there's an odd section out, we'd flip a coin. One person does the extra writing, the other does the poster. xD And we do this last minute too: we send each other the stuff the night before, and one person glues while the other person accompanies through the internet. xD It's... not really even "group work", just "collab work", aha. |
Wow, it sounds like everyone here hates group work to some degree. Yay kindred spirits!
I also dislike group work. Forever and a day, I've always hated it, but I'm finally starting to recognize the value of it. Partially, it's a necessary skill in the working world, but also if forces me to deal with some of my own personal challenges, like shyness, a patronizing undertone and perfectionism. I'm learning how to put my foot down about doing all the work, how to shut my face when people are doing fine but not up to my standards, and to point out problems without being an arse about it. It's good for me. Plus, it gets me to actually talk to other humans face to face. I hardly ever talk to people unless they're already established as a good friend. Shyness is rather frustrating sometime. |
School teachers have the nuttiest idea that putting together hard working kids and slackers would combine everyone and give the slackers influence to do better. Except not really, because slackers get lazier because the working kids likely get average grades/above average and since a zero can drop your grade severely, the workers will pick up the slack with complaint and nagging without doing anything about it (group effort is a whole nother zero of its own).
I can't work hard in groups because I get distracted/tend to criticize other people's work too much and end up the everything by myself. This happens so much that I half want to strangle people. Ugh ugh uuugh. Put some effort in, people. Sure groups help us with social skills, but oh my gosh. Putting polar opposites in does not bode well. |
I do not like group work. Most of the time, I'm the only one who knows the right way of doing it except no one believes me and even when the teacher tells them the right way, they do it a completely different way. Then, we all get a lower grade because nobody wanted to listen. :roll:
Not only that, but I hate leaving part of it open for other people to do. I am most often disappointed with the effort (which is usually none) put into it. Once, I wrote the beginning of a three page essay we had to do, and had to get off the computer. I left it with my group mates online with SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS about what to write about, how long it was supposed to be, and other such things. The next day in class, I find out they didn't even touch what I wrote! They just left it and stuck in a stupid flyer! We all got an F. :roll: |
I hate most kinds of group work unless it is with only one other person. This is mainly cause I am the only one that ever seems to try and take it seriously and actually do the work.
I have never had anyone who I have really hated in my group but I have had a few cases where I don't think I work well with them but you sorta just have to deal with it. I think that the whole purpose of group work is for you to have to work together with people that you don't necessarily like or get along with, since in the real world you have to do this all the time. I know that during high school I found group work pointless but it really is necessary and it gets better as you grow older. |
I hate group work. I don't honestly get how it's supposed to work. The only way I could think of to do it was to divide the work so that basically everyone has to do a fraction of it. But then my teachers always seemed to imply that that wasn't the point and we were doing it wrong.
But I don't understand how else it can work. Like in 10th grade math a guy I knew and I had to take a problem and make a presentation out of it. Basically what we did was one of us did the problem and then we both thought up ideas for the presentation, he put it together, and I presented it, while he threw in stuff he wanted that I didn't know about. I don't know how we were supposed to do it without one or the other of us doing most of the work. And then there was the fact that usually I got at least one lazy person who did nothing, and at least one person who wanted to be the leader not because they would do a good job or had any ideas, but just because they wanted to tell people what to do. GRRRRRR! |
Group work.
Ugh I hate group work. Sometimes it turns out okay and I meet people from it. But most of the time someone either slacks off or is absent or hard to get a hold of, and people's schedules don't match, and it's just a pain in the butt. I almost always have a problem with group assignments and with one or more people not finishing their stuff on time or something. x.x
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Well at school if I was paired with someone I didn't like and who didn't like me all hell would break loose and there's be a huge ass fight to tear the classroom appart...our school we were allowed to pick our groups because this happened with most people. This school now nas more security than a prison and is the reason busses no longer run at night.
Now I'm in a job I can honestly say I never needed group work and it has never come into practice. My boss is great and anyone else working here, if they piss me off I fire them (of course I have to have a good reason but that's easily found). Group work = a total waste of time. |
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Lawl. I totally love you for making this. <33
Why didn't I think of it earlier?! x3 Do you like Group work were you don't get to pick the people you work with? Of course, all school make everyone do this. And yes, I guess it helps you in the future...when you have to know how to work with strangers, even if you hate them. Better learn now, than then, right? I personally DON'T LIKE when we have GROUP WORK AT ALL. Maybe it's me? But I'm pretty friendly...it's just that I don't always trust people to do the work. I have trust in people I know I can trust...but sometimes, I don't know... Have you ever had to work with people you just hate? Hate...well, right now. :l The person I hate is actually the group LEADER! The women (teacher) was crazy enough, but now she just proved it to the WORLD! The project is to make a scrapbook for a book we just read and she assigned this like a few weeks ago. He (Our group leader) assigns roles for the scrapbook yesterday! I have a week! And I happen to be busy. D:< If I was leader, everything would be assigned so long ago...and everyone wouldn't be pressed for time. I am not failing that class because of this group project that proves my teacher is INSANE! Heh. She's making us write a 5 paragraph essay with passion. I totally have it ready for her. x3 Do you think its important for schools to do this? Yes I do. Though I totally hate it and would kill for it to be removed. xP Have you ever worked in a group where some one did nothing? Eh...Yes. Lots. I end up doing the work because I'm the one who doesn't want to fail and everyone knows that. Everyone also knows I'm a straight A student. Luckily, I've only been used once. But still, it's very rude. :l I was furious. But I don't get pissed or snap at anyone. I can't seem to get angry enough. DD: Why me? Rawr? Was this too angry like? I'm not sure. DD: I don't want to break the Mene rules. |
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