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akuma587 on 18 February 2009

I hate working with a partner.  I always end up doing the work and have to deal with the other person's bullshit and excuses.  Group projects should be banned in schools.

I mean not every single experience I have had working with a partner has been bad, but the vast majority of them have been.

What are other people's opinions on the subject?



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Kasz216 on 18 February 2009

Partner work gets you ready for the real world...

because at your job you'll probably be forced to do other peoples work.

There is always someone at every workplace who's main job is to pass off as much work as they can to others.



Bitmap Frogs on 18 February 2009
Kasz216 said:

Partner work gets you ready for the real world...

 

This.

 





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HappySqurriel on 18 February 2009
Kasz216 said:

Partner work gets you ready for the real world...

because at your job you'll probably be forced to do other peoples work.

There is always someone at every workplace who's main job is to pass off as much work as they can to others.

 

I mostly agree, but I think that a lot of bitching about doing other people's work is often the result of poor organization ...



Esmoreit on 18 February 2009

I call these people "the Wally's".

And as Kasz said, you will probably end up working somewhere where you are required to work in a team, again. And the only way to get working in a proper team with hard-working individuals is to perform well in the sucky teams you start with.

Group projects generally are ace. At least, I found so as long as the group is not bigger then 4. You always end up with either one or two good people and if the last one is an ass, you could always kick him or her from the team (at least, our universities allowed that if you could provide enough evidence - usually the teacher would proceed to first question lacking student both on the paper, the cohession and the required knowledge before passing judgement.)



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RCTjunkie on 18 February 2009

I hate them, too, but (rest of post already taken by Kasz)



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akuma587 on 18 February 2009

My partner has even apologized to me for being so unprepared. He knows he way less prepared than I am and has said it. I've already almost finished the main part of the project, and he has barely even started writing anything.

I am gonna make him do some of the bitch work that I don't want to do. But its really frustrating letting someone get credit for what you do when they don't do a damn thing, especially in this type of environment where it doesn't benefit you at all that you did more work in the eyes of the teacher/boss.



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spdk1 on 18 February 2009

I always hated the guy who insists on doing the whole project because he is anal retentive and thinks other people will mess it up, then you get a bad participation grade. this happened recently in one of my classes, and I had to have the professor place me in my own group, because I refused to let someone do everything without letting me help.



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dsister44 on 18 February 2009

hey me and a friend did awesome on this 1 project.we had to compare these two staues and neither of us are artistic so we were both winging it,it was great



Kasz216 on 18 February 2009
akuma587 said:
My partner has even apologized to me for being so unprepared. He knows he way less prepared than I am and has said it. I've already almost finished the main part of the project, and he has barely even started writing anything.

I am gonna make him do some of the bitch work that I don't want to do. But its really frustrating letting someone get credit for what you do when they don't do a damn thing, especially in this type of environment where it doesn't benefit you at all that you did more work in the eyes of the teacher/boss.

Hey at least you don't have to do your BOSSES work.