If You Want It Done Right
by xaosseed
Right. So I’ve spent the past fortnight pretty much writing constantly when I wasn’t at college or doing my one night a week gaming, finished up the second of three major courseworks yesterday. One was due today, another Friday, the last monday week. The monday hand-ups were solo pieces, both done, both in this evening. The piece due Friday is a team-piece.
Friday’s piece is part B of hand up 1. Part A we got back today, and we got a D. I wrote it, and gave it to the rest of the team (four of them) to clean up and hand in. Between all of them they fucked it up and my hopes of an honours dissappear down the toilet with them.
Now my dillema is – do I break my heart over tonight and tomorrow to write up Part B so they *can’t* screw it up … and let the whole skiving lot of them coast on my work, or do I go ‘fuck it’ hand out the docco 1/4 done, properly formatted as it sits on my hard-drive now and leave them to fix the rest up, betting that if (when) it tanks, I can point to my pretty rock solid marks throughout the rest of the year(s) and say – “do the trends, I got dragged down”.
General empathy and willingness to take one (more) for the team at a very low ebb…
Comments
If I remember correctly, this is a business-ish course?
I believe part of what any good business course should teach (especially at this level) is the necessity of dragging the slackers along if (when) necessary. You can’t go to a client and say, “The rest of my team are feckless wasters, but my part of the docco/presentation/project is pristine.” If I were the prof, I’d say I wouldn’t accept that explanation either.
But I’m known for being a bit of a bitch when it comes to marks, so maybe your graders/profs are nicer folks.
In my experience with group work, you have only one option and that is to work it out yourself.
You then have a subsequent choice as to whether you want to go to your instructor and rat out your colleagues. I would, if the project is important.
Well, I negotiated that we could resubmit the coursework that tanked – if done ASAP – and I’ve given the rest of the team 1100 words, formated correctly and a to do list. There are four of them and they have three days. Surely, 225 words apiece can’t be beyond them?
Otherwise, just out of my own bloody-mindedness, I’m going to let us crash out then I’ll shop the bloody lot of them. Good marks aren’t worth this kind of bullshit.