Group Project Vent Thread!

[Lovely_RN]

It's Friday night and I am so pi**ed off I can't even enjoy the night. I need to vent so that I can let this go and relax for the rest of the weekend.

Well, enjoy it as much as I can considering all the work I have to get done.

Feel free to vent with me.

:angryfire I hate slackers! I have to vent because I am so annoyed!!!! I am stuck with an assigned group, we have to do weekly group presentations and we are stuck with each other until the end of the semester.

I am already extremely tired of two of our groups memebers who expect to have their hands held every step of the way. Today as we were in the library doing a dry run for Monday the usual suspects had done nothing and expected me to help them! I was so mad :angryfire I had already given one some notes I had written because my part in the presentation changed and I no longer needed the research. I had reservations about doing it because I know how lazy she is and she already flaked on one of our meetings but I decided to just go ahead and not be a hard a**. She had no work done other than the notes I gave her and then had the nerve to ask me to clarify them for her! I asked her if she had read our textbooks because if she had she would have understood them just fine, of course she didn't read the book.

The other woman was claiming that she was so confused about the project and was whining about how we changed her part on her. This was so not true! First of all, all of us were focusing on the wrong thing and we all had to revise our part of the presentation. Second, she was there when we were doing it and agreed to take the part she took! Finally, I told her to call me during the week if she needed help and she never called me. So why is it that on Friday (when the draft was due) we are sitting in the library and she has the nerve to claim that the entire group gave her the shaft and how we all had to help her find stuff for her presentation. It got to the ridiculous point where she was sitting across from me and actually had the nerve to say "Tell me what I should write because I just don't know, I don't understand what we are supposed to be doing here." So I kept explaining it to her and said, if it were up to me I would write about....

She cut me off and said, NO! you are telling me what to say, I want u to tell me what to write! I was floored. I was pissed. I just started staring at her, I was so mad! Well another group member intervened because I was livid.

I am done, I am not helping anymore lazy people out. I am married and have children to take care of and going to school is a huge sacrifice on my famiy's part. I have enough to do just trying to keep up with my own work and if I can manage, then they can get off of their a**es and work just as hard as I do.

These same two group members always want help with the work or want to copy work from the three of us that work together but never have anything to offer.

It's like the old saying: You give an inch and they want a yard.

[MB37]

It's not that I hate working with others in general - I've just read so many stories on here about people not putting forth any effort AT ALL, and the instructors still assigning everyone the same grade. Most of the people I know in my class are at the least hard workers, so maybe it won't be so bad if we start having to do them. I work with others at my job, and we certainly all depend on each other. While I love allnurses, sometimes the posts get me a little more scared about certain aspects of NS than I need to be - so far I enjoy going to class, like my classmates and instructors fine, and am doing well. A lot more people post I guess when they're unhappy than when they're not.

[Lovely_RN, MSN]

I never updated this thread!

It turns out that the two worst offenders flunked out of the program because of the grade they received for this class. The third managed to pull herself together, squeaked by, and now she is a much better student. She actually pulls her weight in the group that she is in now....I guess she saw what happened to the other two and decided to get with the program.

In the end getting the memebers of our group to band together and apply pressure to the lazier ones helped. It didn't make getting the work done any easier but at least I didn't feel like I was climbing the mountain alone.

I think that the two that were expelled simply did not believe that they would really be dropped for not workig hard. Both of them had went to college before and thought that NS was like a regular college experience where you can BS your way through...do the minimum, wait until the last minute and still get a decent grade. The overwhelming majority of the class takes school a LOT more seriously now that they understand that they could fail out for something as "minor" as missing the cutoff grade by a point.

[miss arron]

thanks for the links daytonite... it's been awhile since i've really had to work as a group and it won't hurt to brush up a bit on my skills.

i was the self-nominated group leader during my senior project for my first degree.... i am a control freak, so i was happy to step up. slackers are hard to deal with, even getting to do the smallest of tasks is like pulling teeth.