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blunthead

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DiO'Bolic said:
There’s more to the story. His wife was also a professor at the college, and they detested each other immensely. I took a business class of hers the following semester. She told me about how outraged he was for the longest time over how I undermined his class and forced him to throw out the model he worked so hard on. She found it incredibly sexy and propositioned me for a better grade because of it. I told her I was flattered, but declined and said I would let my grade stand on it’s own merit. I got an ‘A-’ :)
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swiftdog2.0

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skimom2 said:
DD#2 is going through something similar in her college communications class. She's the youngest one in her group (16), but is taking on a lot of the work because she's worried that the others won't do it & is worried about an early college class bad grade torpedoing her college transcript and harming her chances for a scholarship when she's out of HS. People generally suck.

How did the presentation go, swiftdog2.0 ?
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Presentation went OK. Our assignment was to advocate for a violent workplace offender registry from a management perspective. The other team's topic was to argue against the need for a registry from an employee perspective.

IMHO, my team's presentation was better than the other team's. This was despite the lack of input from all members of the team.

Here's how the rest of the situation played out:

Slacker #1 finally did some work late Sunday night. The edits she made to my work were minor. She added a few words and half baked ideas and said she "fixed" some grammar issues. More like introduced additional grammar issues. Anyway, I re-edited the paper and ran it through spell/grammar check on MS Word and turned that version in. Because slacker #1 did some work on the paper, and posted an unusable PowerPoint that we chucked in favor of the one an active participant did, I reluctantly added her name to the title page of the paper.

Slacker #2 showed up for class and said "she thought she was supposed to be working with the other team" :hammer: They kicked her out and sent her back to us. I left her off the paper but my team made her present one slide on the presentation. We'll see if the professor calls me on leaving her off the paper. If he does I'll tell him why I did it. All he'd have to do to see how the group worked together is review our discussion board on the school's learning app.

Can't wat to see what our final assignment is going to be..........:barf:
 
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swiftdog2.0 said:
Presentation went OK. Our assignment was to advocate for a violent workplace offender registry from a management perspective. The other team's topic was to argue against the need for a registry from an employee perspective.

IMHO, my team's presentation was better than the other team's. This was despite the lack of input from all members of the team.

Here's how the rest of the situation played out:

Slacker #1 finally did some work late Sunday night. The edits she made to my work were minor. She added a few words and half baked ideas and said she "fixed" some grammar issues. More like introduced additional grammar issues. Anyway, I re-edited the paper and ran it through spell/grammar check on MS Word and turned that version in. Because slacker #1 did some work on the paper, and posted an unusable PowerPoint that we chucked in favor of the one an active participant did, I reluctantly added her name to the title page of the paper.

Slacker #2 showed up for class and said "she thought she was supposed to be working with the other team" :hammer: They kicked her out and sent her back to us. I left her off the paper but my team made her present one slide on the presentation. We'll see if the professor calls me on leaving her off the paper. If he does I'll tell him why I did it. All he'd have to do to see how the group worked together is review our discussion board on the school's learning app.

Can't wat to see what our final assignment is going to be..........:barf:
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I think you did the best thing you could do. Dingdong #1 introducing grammar issues, Dingdong #2 thought she was in the other group. Geez!

I have to say, my way of thinking went right where Spideyman was thinking: with it being an HR Mgmt class, I thought that might be part of it - how you handle the different personalities and dynamics of a team project might be part of the project. So notifying "management" may or may not be the thing to do, depending on this situation. I'd say you handled it quite professionally!
 
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Pucker

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It's interesting that this problem takes place in a Human Resources Management course.

Because that's exactly what you're doing and I suspect your professor knows this (hence, group assignments).

In any workplace there are people who pull their weight and others who will not. I have never had a job where poor communication was not the single biggest problem. Poor communication is like a pebble dropped in a pond that sends out little waves of dissonance in every direction.

I'm a very bad manager, because I expect everyone to understand goals and work ethic the same way I do and that is rarely the case. In this situation, if I was in it, there probably would have been a very short meeting (or a series of individual meetings) in which people who were slacking would be notified that their lack of contribution would be reflected in the presentation.

I wouldn't say anything to the professor. An assignment is an assignment and -- as I said above -- I think there's a reason why your professor wants group activity. It's to create exactly this kind of situation and see how you handle it.
 
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