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re: Let's hear some group project nightmares
Posted on 10/14/16 at 4:30 pm to Hammertime
Posted on 10/14/16 at 4:30 pm to Hammertime
Microbiology group of 3. Me, lady in her late 40's, and another college age chick. Wouldn't let me do anything and then told the professor I didn't do anything after we finished. Got an F on the project but still passed the class.
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Posted on 10/14/16 at 4:41 pm to Hammertime
I was in a communications class and I had to go from one end of the campus to the other, to get there, because I had a class right before it. The instructor would make a big deal when people came in late. I went tell her that there might be times I will be late because of my other class and she was like "well if you get here on time some days there is no reason you can't get here on time every day"..
Early in the semester she assigned a group project and I had a part to do. It got to the point where I had to drop the class because it just wasn't working out. I'd have to leave the other class a few mins early and that class was more important than the communications class. Since I was assigned to a group project and started doing my part, I waited until we presented our presentation, left out the class and dropped the class.
A few days later a girl in my group came up to me and told me they received an A on their project because I waited to drop it so that I would not leave the group in a jam. She was all like "thank you sooo much, that was so awesome"... And I was like "aint that a bitch? they got an A because I waited to drop the class?". That not a project nightmare story, but its a group project story.
Early in the semester she assigned a group project and I had a part to do. It got to the point where I had to drop the class because it just wasn't working out. I'd have to leave the other class a few mins early and that class was more important than the communications class. Since I was assigned to a group project and started doing my part, I waited until we presented our presentation, left out the class and dropped the class.
A few days later a girl in my group came up to me and told me they received an A on their project because I waited to drop it so that I would not leave the group in a jam. She was all like "thank you sooo much, that was so awesome"... And I was like "aint that a bitch? they got an A because I waited to drop the class?". That not a project nightmare story, but its a group project story.
Posted on 10/14/16 at 4:44 pm to Hammertime
I was the guy that left the group hanging. My wife went in to labor the day we were supposed to present our project.
My group and the professor knew this was a possibility. So they were not shocked. Plus one of the group members was older and had kids so he understood.
But since I knew this was a possibility, I made sure that my part was completed and my speech was written out for them to use.
My group and the professor knew this was a possibility. So they were not shocked. Plus one of the group members was older and had kids so he understood.
But since I knew this was a possibility, I made sure that my part was completed and my speech was written out for them to use.
Posted on 10/14/16 at 4:56 pm to Split2874
A friend of mine was in his last semester, he was a Mech Engineering major and for his final project he was put in a group with some other dude and an African. He told me the African didn't speak English well, he smelled and never brought food on the days he was suppose to (they had days they worked on the project and since they would be working on it for a long time they decided every time they meet they would take turns bringing food. The first day one of them brought it, the next the other and so on).
They told him he needed to bring food on the days he was suppose to because they would get there expecting him to bring food. When it was his turn to bring food again, he brought them each a carton of fat free milk. They thought he was joking at first, but I thought it was funny.
They told him he needed to bring food on the days he was suppose to because they would get there expecting him to bring food. When it was his turn to bring food again, he brought them each a carton of fat free milk. They thought he was joking at first, but I thought it was funny.
Posted on 10/14/16 at 6:19 pm to Hammertime
I create advertising for a living.
I once worked at an ad agency that forbade individuals from developing ideas on their own. In other words, according to the rule, if someone came up with a brilliant idea for an ad campaign while eating lunch alone, that person would be forbidden from presenting the idea for consideration.
It's inconceivable to me that how one comes up with a campaign idea is more important than the quality of the idea. Incomprehensible.
I didn't last long there but I did learn a valuable lesson about the idiocy of mandatory group think. It's been said that no brilliant ideas ever came out of a committee, and I believe this is pretty close to an indisputable truth.
Then again, we're talking advertising here, an industry that is perhaps the most notable of all for sheer stupidity.
I once worked at an ad agency that forbade individuals from developing ideas on their own. In other words, according to the rule, if someone came up with a brilliant idea for an ad campaign while eating lunch alone, that person would be forbidden from presenting the idea for consideration.
It's inconceivable to me that how one comes up with a campaign idea is more important than the quality of the idea. Incomprehensible.
I didn't last long there but I did learn a valuable lesson about the idiocy of mandatory group think. It's been said that no brilliant ideas ever came out of a committee, and I believe this is pretty close to an indisputable truth.
Then again, we're talking advertising here, an industry that is perhaps the most notable of all for sheer stupidity.
Posted on 10/14/16 at 6:29 pm to Hammertime
So a guy and me were part of a bombass group that I was project lead on a few semesters ago. the subsequent semester, we have a class with another group project and the guy and I end up in a 5 person group.
we cant get this group to meet for anything, then they suddenly flip it on us that we're using the EXACT same project that my buddy and I had presented in the last class. we opposed, naturally, but they wouldnt ever meet and when it came down to it, the guy and I had to modify all of our data and financials to fit this new project. I spoke for like 90% of the presentation and the rest recited off notecards, I was frickin sweating bullets praying that nobody would rat us out. there was an adult woman in the class that I knew was in the previous class and she looked PISSED.
after the presentations that day, I see her sitting in the back waiting to talk to the professor. I start shuffling papers pretending im doing something so that she cant get the prof 1 on 1. I fake work for like 20 mins after class and shes still talking to the mfr. I finally leave and listen in the hallway for another 10 min. she was just talking about her project
got an A
we cant get this group to meet for anything, then they suddenly flip it on us that we're using the EXACT same project that my buddy and I had presented in the last class. we opposed, naturally, but they wouldnt ever meet and when it came down to it, the guy and I had to modify all of our data and financials to fit this new project. I spoke for like 90% of the presentation and the rest recited off notecards, I was frickin sweating bullets praying that nobody would rat us out. there was an adult woman in the class that I knew was in the previous class and she looked PISSED.
after the presentations that day, I see her sitting in the back waiting to talk to the professor. I start shuffling papers pretending im doing something so that she cant get the prof 1 on 1. I fake work for like 20 mins after class and shes still talking to the mfr. I finally leave and listen in the hallway for another 10 min. she was just talking about her project
got an A
Posted on 10/14/16 at 7:04 pm to Carson123987
I'm about to crack down and do three weeks worth of project in two days because of this dude. Glad we get to rate them as a partner
Posted on 10/14/16 at 7:59 pm to Hammertime
I belonged to a tech group with Samsung and we developed the S7..... well, you know....!
Posted on 10/14/16 at 8:05 pm to Hammertime
White people problems 
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