Lazy group member - let him burn?

harvestmoon
Tue, 03 Dec 2013 18:59:32 +0000

Thanks so much for your response! That’s really helpful, and it’s definitely something I’ll keep in mind for future projects.

Our presentation has actually been postponed until tomorrow, but my group member has still barely contributed anything. On Sunday night (we thought we were presenting Monday) he threw in like 7 slides in a random spot with just a bunch of quotes from his articles. (NOT what we were supposed to do). I had to move them around and fix them myself, and later that day in class, he had the audacity/stupidity to ask me if they looked okay and if I wanted to add anything. (I made it clear that it was his responsibility and his part since I did practically everything else).

Our professor has us rate our partners in the end, so I’ll definitely make it clear that he did nothing. We didn’t end up going to our prof because we didn’t want to annoy him or not seem mature enough to handle it ourselves. We just buckled down and did all the work ourselves because we realized that in the end, we’re gaining a lot of life and presentation experience while group member #4 is remaining nothing but a useless slacker.