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Group projects at work are different because everyone has a different role. In school, everyone must have the same role in order to equally learn the material.
by wvenable 10y ago
Group projects at work are different because everyone has a different role. In school, everyone must have the same role in order to equally learn the material. Any divisions are arbitrary and the consequences of not putting in effort are minimal.
- Consultant32452 10y ago>Any divisions are arbitrary and the consequences of not putting in effort are minimal. That's been my experience at work too. Sure, I might be a developer, but I'm often doing PM, QA, or BA tasks. Eventually crappy coworkers might get the boot, but almost never within the time frame of a single project.
- wvenable 10y agoThe argument is that this kind of group project arrangement is crappy; It's possible for work group projects to be terrible for the same reasons but it's absolutely guaranteed in school projects. If anything, we are just training students that your terrible group work experiences are normal.
- Consultant32452 10y ago>If anything, we are just training students that your terrible group work experiences are normal. Oh, absolutely. That's what the whole school experience is about. Think about it. We sit all your desks in nice neat rows. You have to ask permission even to use the restroom. We demand conformity, maybe even put you in a uniform. Don't you dare ever question authority. Sit here quietly for hours on end doing mindless tasks for meaningless rewards. If that's not some reasonable analogy to what your job is like, then you are probably at least a standard deviation outside the norm in IQ or creativity.