social loafing is the phenomenon of people exerting less effort to achieve a goal when they work in a group than when they work alone
Usually when I am in a group that consists of people that never do their homework, talk in class or don't even come into class, I usually lead and tell them the work that needs to get done. Sometimes it might be hard, but with the constant texting, yelling, messaging, and threatening, we get the work done. I never really had a time where one member did NOTHING.
What really sucks is when the person that does NOTHING is a friend of yours. Yes, I know what you're all thinking - why don't I just tell this person (lets call this person "Z") to contribute more to the group, because Z is my friend. Well what if Z is one of those people that act as if nothing is wrong? Act as if he/she is doing enough for the group? That thinks that he/she has the reasons to miss out on the 10 hours of building the project + 5 hours of filming?
And you know what is the WORST? Usually if you don't really care for this social loafer, you can tell your teacher that they did NOTHING, but if it is your friend, it's a totally different story. But at the same time, if the person was your friend, shouldn't they know that you care a lot for your marks and that they should work HARDER? And when I told Z that while me and my other group member were filming and dying, you replied with "Well, I told you guys I had a party to go to." You know what pissed me off? When it was 10pm and we called you during your party. You told us to stop calling you? I expected at least a "sorry for not being able to help you guys out."
When I told you to make the graphs for the project, all you did was sit there. The most distributive thing you did during this whole project was cleaning up, which took like 15-20 minutes. While I was making the powerpoint and everything, and the other girl was making all the graphs, what did you do? Seriously? Well if I asked you this personally, you would've been like "you never gave me the chance to help you with powerpoint...blah blah blah" Well for a person who is non tech savvy like you, I didn't want to ask, you would've accidently deleted our videos that YOU DIDN'T HELP OUT ON.
What pissed me off today was when we were presenting our project, you acted as if YOU DID WORK. When we were setting up the demo and all that other crap, you acted as if you were so professional at it. NO. I was the one that set up that part for 5-6 hours the day YOU WERE AT A PARTY. And speaking of the party, when you usually have a group project to work on, you usually pass down on the invitation to the party. You don't even know how much trouble we had to go through that day. WTF
Back to the presentation part. And when we were watching the bloopers, you were saying "It makes me so sad to see all these fails." WELL YOU WEREN'T EVEN THERE. YOU DIDN'T EVEN CARE IF WE WERE DYING. And when we were telling our teacher that he can watch it on youtube, you acted as if you knew everything. YOU DIDN'T EVEN LOOK AT OUR VIDEO UNTIL LIKE 2 HOURS BEFORE THE PRESENATION. "Oh you can just search it online...search ____________ and it should show up." You know what? SHUT UP. Sometimes you act as if you're always right but sometimes they are DEAD WRONG. And when you were so sad that the class didn't laugh at one of the videos, I thought to myself "well, it wasn't even your idea, you weren't there to record it, you didn't even edit it."
When my other group member straight on asked you " SO Z WHAT DID YOU CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROJECT?" Even you had a frigging hard time answering that question. "uh, I helped build the last part" OH THE PART WE ENDED UP TAKING OUT CAUSE IT DIDN'T WORK. And the day you came to work on it, you left at 6. Wait you always left at 6 or you didn't even come, when I stayed until 11 to finish up.
When I had to put in our powerpoint file and videos onto the teachers computer, I actually didn't want to put your name on the file folder. Seriously, the mark you're getting is not fair.
I love you sometimes, but this project actually made me so pissed off. Next time, I'm not partnering up with you.
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