Group conflict

I am a senior so I have worked on a lot of group projects. Sometimes there are problems such as people not being able to meet at the same time. A few times I have run into problems were one person is just lazy and does not do any of the work. I am usually the person that takes the lead.

I have finally found myself on the other end though. I am in a 5 person group in a computer class. We started of being assigned into groups and I told the group members to please email out when they are going to work on the project, so we can all help. This did not happen. Two of the members decided that they would mostly work on it at times without telling us. When we did meet during designated class time they would work on it and would not let us do anything.

Now fast forward to the last week of the lab. They started sending pissed of emails that we have not done anything. They took the lead on the project and would not tell us what to do. Even when I was sitting with them while they are working on it. The day before it was due they were saying we had to contribute our part to the project now. Since it is a technology class where we are configuring computers we tried our best. We did not know what they had done though since they did most of it without us. Since we did not know what they did we could not do our part.

I the end we did not completely get it done since there was not good communication. Not getting full credit on it is not even the worst part. The problem with group members refusing to work with us hurts my test grades. Our labs help us understand what we are taught in class and then get tested on. Without the lab for the first test I would have failed. I learn everything in lab, so now thing are not looking good for the next test.

The moral of the story of my rant is you must work together. No matter your position in the group you must communicate and make sure you get everyone involved. Also don’t jump to conclusions. My group members did not realize the reason that we were not help them was the reason that they would not give us work or tell us when they were working on it.