Posted on 04/26/2017 3:06:58 PM PDT by BlackAdderess
What is your worst group project ever?
Mine is occurring this semester and it involves an assigned team and a stubborn professor who is of the "don't make me come UP there" school of thought.
Our group has had a total of 4 meetings, all semester, and I have to say that I've learned a great deal through this experience.
I have learned that Google documents can indeed be made to disappear forever if they are moved before being presumably deleted.
I have learned that when people lie, they seem to believe the more public the lie (during a speech) the more believable it will be, despite all evidence to the contrary in the actual presentation ;)
I have learned that hell hath no fury like a slacking group project member forced to contribute.
I have also learned that there is no better way to gain acceptance with the sorts of students everybody wants to study with than to get stuck in a situation like this :)
“What is your worst group project ever?”
My mandatory annual ‘diversity seminar’ four hours of stupid!
Many many GOOD project, and a few terrible ones. Without going into details I will just say that none of the good ones and ALL of the bad onese involved engineers from India.
“What is your worst group project ever?”
Having twins at the hospital. I discovered that I was one of the least important people to be involved in the birth of my girls.
I chose my partner this semester and it was going to be great but the prof assigned us a slacker. They fought hard and somehow found a way to move on. There is usually one slacker.
Ive been lucky, my last group sought each other out b/c we’re like minded A students so no problems. Also, if you have the option to take an Online course, there tends not to be group projects assigned.
Tell it ! I’m in your choir.
How about an instrument that damned near sunk a small company because the project lead treated it like a PhD project that he was supervising. Ten and a half million dollars later with no end in sight the president of the company finally changed leadership
God what a mess that was
Every field day of the barracks. And the company office. And usually the battalion HQ too.
Join the Navy and see the world!
Join the Army and defend the world!
Join the Marines and scrub the world so hard it has to be repainted!
Worst Group Project is any project I have worked on that involved other people.
10 Ways to See Things in a More Positive Light
I was in psych ward after brain injury for 2 weeks and was thrown into a group with 2 Schizophrenic Latin Kings and a Bi Polar middle aged mafioso.
Columbus is great but don’t go there for psych if you’re white
Columbia!!
ROFL!
Masters Program, I had to “integrate” the piles of crap the others provided, into a finished product.
Spent all weekend trying to turn it into something presentable.
“We” managed a B.
BUT!
This prepared me well for projects in my career.
You don’t wait until the last minute to discover bad results.
Set expectations, monitor results, redirect, replace team members as necessary.
Have the team participate in the integration.
I was an adult worker with another adult and the professor paired us with two college age students. The students wouldn’t show up for project work. I insisted that they be removed as they weren’t getting a grade on our work.
The professor was friends with my manager and had a veiled threat of bringing the issue to his attention. Called his bluff and told him that my manager was not his issue (we were and are good friends) and he tossed the two students.
The students got a better life lesson then they did a college education.
If you give an engineer $1 Million and one year to build you a bookcase, in month eleven he’ll be drafting his “final design”.
Just think about the Saudi father who had 38 kids and his wives were of some help.
Hahahaha!!! Thanks!!! (-:
The corollary is "there is no such thing as a final design." Toss it over the wall and make the delay production's fault.
I would say my fifth grade experience where all us fifth graders got together to come up with a plan to get even with Big Mike in the eighth grade who was always picking on us.
We decided to tape a “Kick Me!” sign to Big Mike’s back.
My classmates chose me to put the sign on Big Mike.
The rest of the class would be in front of Big Mike, taunting him to keep his eyes off me.
It worked real good until I was one step away from Big Mike and my classmate Larry yelled, “Look out Mike! He’s behind you!”
It was then that I realized that blood was thicker than classroom loyalty as Larry was Big Mike’s younger brother.
Took a whipping that day.
The speaker asked her first question of the audience: "If your mother were in a nursing home and wanted to move into a room with her new boyfriend, how would you react?" My hand shot up because I had a ready answer.
"It seems that the best way to handle this situation would be to call a priest, preacher or rabbi and get a cake and have a marriage ceremony."
Everyone in the room turned their face in my direction and they were not very happy at my well-reasoned and very moral answer. Ten minutes of Slyfox bashing took place.
I knew at that very point that I did not want to work with people like that. And I changed majors.
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