My group has created the assigned blog posts for this week collaboratively and they will be posted later, but this one's all me. This seems to be the semester of the group project. Having worked in a variety of groups in the past several weeks, ranging in size from a reasonable 3 to a monstrous 6, I will list here what I have identified as the 4 main types of collaborators. I am using the term 'collaborators' lightly, as you will see. It's all in good fun, so please receive it in that spirit.
The first type of collaborator is the invisible man. This collaborator cannot be reached via email, text or even face to face conversation. This person gets all of the same emails and texts as the rest of the group, but never replies, and then shows up a few hours before the assignment is due asking what's going on. This person also has a tendency to ask annoying questions that are clearly spelled out on the assignment sheet, or have already been answered in the class that all of you sat through mere days before. This collaborator also tends to contribute his/her assigned portion at the last possible second, often ignoring agreed upon deadlines and deciding that they would like to add something to an already completed section.
The second type is the Idon'tgiveashitter. This collaborator ranges from the hard worker to the half asser, but after their portion is complete the result is always the same. These collaborators tend to hand in their assigned portion early and evaporate into thin air. Whether they have given you shitty work and disappeared before you can ask them to make corrections, or given you excellent work and then disappeared before you can ask them for more, their goal is to do what they were assigned and move on to more important life events. He/she is very hard to collaborate with because when it comes to making changes, big or small, that could improve the project, they just don't give a shit.
The third type of collaborator is the hopelessly dependent. This person needs the group to hold their hand through every step. They often ask you to look over what they have done, ignoring the fact that at some point you have to work on your own part as well. This collaborator is in contact way too much and answers any communication from you within seconds. He/she will often ask if there is anything more that they can do, and although there is more that they can help with you find yourself saying "no" because this would mean more work instead of less.
The fourth and final type of collaborator is the dictator. This collaborator does not like any idea unless it originated in their own brain. He/she assigns work to each group member, although they have not been assigned the role of leader. He/she might look over a nearly complete assignment and decide that changes need to be made. This collaborator might also take perfectly good work and change it until it sounds exactly like them. They act as if every grammatical error is a lightning bolt to the brain stem, and constantly complain that no one else is contributing although they prefer it this way.
Personally, I can find pieces of myself in all of these collaborators from various project situations. How about you?
The first type of collaborator is the invisible man. This collaborator cannot be reached via email, text or even face to face conversation. This person gets all of the same emails and texts as the rest of the group, but never replies, and then shows up a few hours before the assignment is due asking what's going on. This person also has a tendency to ask annoying questions that are clearly spelled out on the assignment sheet, or have already been answered in the class that all of you sat through mere days before. This collaborator also tends to contribute his/her assigned portion at the last possible second, often ignoring agreed upon deadlines and deciding that they would like to add something to an already completed section.
The second type is the Idon'tgiveashitter. This collaborator ranges from the hard worker to the half asser, but after their portion is complete the result is always the same. These collaborators tend to hand in their assigned portion early and evaporate into thin air. Whether they have given you shitty work and disappeared before you can ask them to make corrections, or given you excellent work and then disappeared before you can ask them for more, their goal is to do what they were assigned and move on to more important life events. He/she is very hard to collaborate with because when it comes to making changes, big or small, that could improve the project, they just don't give a shit.
The third type of collaborator is the hopelessly dependent. This person needs the group to hold their hand through every step. They often ask you to look over what they have done, ignoring the fact that at some point you have to work on your own part as well. This collaborator is in contact way too much and answers any communication from you within seconds. He/she will often ask if there is anything more that they can do, and although there is more that they can help with you find yourself saying "no" because this would mean more work instead of less.
The fourth and final type of collaborator is the dictator. This collaborator does not like any idea unless it originated in their own brain. He/she assigns work to each group member, although they have not been assigned the role of leader. He/she might look over a nearly complete assignment and decide that changes need to be made. This collaborator might also take perfectly good work and change it until it sounds exactly like them. They act as if every grammatical error is a lightning bolt to the brain stem, and constantly complain that no one else is contributing although they prefer it this way.
Personally, I can find pieces of myself in all of these collaborators from various project situations. How about you?
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