Lazy group member - let him burn?

Momzie
Tue, 03 Dec 2013 19:53:25 +0000

Sounds like you have worked it out, but I do want to stress again the importance of documenting things. If I got an eval from a member of a group that said, “We met six times and Charlie only showed up twice, at the two final meetings. We each read and discussed two articles per meeting and thus we all read twelve articles, except for Charlie, who only read four,” this would be good information for a prof, as opposed to a more nebulous statement like “Charlie didn’t do as much work as everyone else did.”

It’s good to get in the habit of documenting things like this, because as you point out, in life you will also have to work in group settings. Keeping stats like this will help you to stick up for your own interests, as well as being useful if you’re a boss someday who has to fire someone.