The reason I hate group work

[PrincessFiona]

Andrew is taking Environmental Sociology. He got assigned a group project with three girls. They tried texting him but his cell phone was out of minutes. Damn! We topped up his minutes and he texted and emailed all group members. They finally contacted him at midnight last night. The project is due this morning.
He thinks he will have to drop the class if he doesn't get credit for some part of the group project. He understood that their initial attempt to contact him failed, but not why his repeated attempts to contact them went unanswered.
Sigh.
FYI. The stress doesn't end when they graduate.

[Pollyanna]

Andrew is taking Environmental Sociology. He got assigned a group project with three girls. They tried texting him but his cell phone was out of minutes. Damn! We topped up his minutes and he texted and emailed all group members. They finally contacted him at midnight last night. The project is due this morning.
He thinks he will have to drop the class if he doesn't get credit for some part of the group project. He understood that their initial attempt to contact him failed, but not why his repeated attempts to contact them went unanswered.
Sigh.
FYI. The stress doesn't end when they graduate.

Hugs. That stinks for Andrew. Hopefully the girls will just include him in the credit and the teacher will be none the wiser.

ETA: Can he get on an unlimited text plan in the future? It has always been cheeper for us to go that route vs paying for individual texts.

[PrincessFiona]

He has a pay as you go iphone. He buys monthly cards. We never put our kids on our plan because we use their phones as discipline. Don't clean up/get behind at school? No phone card. Now Andrew is 19 and we've just paid his monthly cards. He usually has continual service.

DH won't add him to our plan because the hospital pays for it. Maybe he'll need to sign up for his own 2 year contract.

Kris

[WolfpackWife]

Interesting - I didn't know texts were linked to phone minutes, but maybe that's just with pay-as-you-go phones?

It's definitely BS though that they didn't text/email him until midnight! WTF! Could he have emailed them from his computer? I hope it all works out and there's no issue. Group projects can really suck.

[PrincessFiona]

He emailed them ASAP. Apparrntly, no one checked their campus emails until late. I just talked to him and it turns out he stayed up until 3 am working on a piece for the project ... so in the end it looks like it worked out.

[WolfpackWife]

He emailed them ASAP. Apparrntly, no one checked their campus emails until late. I just talked to him and it turns out he stayed up until 3 am working on a piece for the project ... so in the end it looks like it worked out.

Oh good - as long as he contributed something I think there's no way they'd waste the time to act like he wasn't involved. One less thing for him to worry about!

[PrincessFiona]

What a rollercoaster. He needs to move back into the dorms so I don't know about this stuff. LOL

[Sheherezade]

Yes, definitely look in to an unlimited text plan; these days they are cheaper for most people.

Interestingly, my son has an engineering team for most of their projects this year. They've done two. The third assignment was to evaluate your teammates in an ungraded survey for the prof. I thought that was a cool move. I think team work has its benefits but it definitely has a down side.

[SoonerTexan]

I hated it in college. I get why they do it because it is the reality in much of the working world, but I always found my coworkers to be more responsible than my classmates. Getting paid and the ability to get fired seems to be good motivations

[diggitydot]

Group projects = introvert kryptonite

[MrsSz]

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[PrincessFiona]

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this!

[Pollyanna]

LOVE that MrsSz!!!!!

[Sheherezade]

I'm passing that on to my daughter. She will love it.