shared assignments

Sharing: something the general community believe to be an integral learning curve. A little activity to ensure that we have got to grips with these kinds of concepts is giving students shared assignments, one topic, 5 people and go.
So dutifully you attempt to split up a task so that the work is evenly spaced out between the 5 of you, a schedule is drawn up so that we can ensure the research and drafts are completed within adequate time to rework problem areas and a final drawing together of materials needs its own time so that the hand in will be successful.

Most people seem to have difficulty with step 1.
You were given a section of work to cover what the fuck were you doing dilly dallying in other spheres of the debate? Having successfully screwed up step 1 it is only logical that your incompetence screws up the proceeding steps...

I watched this drama being played out, having a friend (we'll call her S) that seems to see it as being incumbent upon herself to fix the inadequacies of human kind, I had to further witness the general disregard for her work ethic, the self-serving attitudes of the malevolent followed by ridiculous amounts of slaps she received in the face.
Who was drafting the heads of argument? She was. Who was compiling the entire script so that it formed a seamless and coherent argument? She was. Who had to accommodate the general inability of colleagues to produce work that vaguely resembled a thought process? She did. Who had to formulate how the argument would be divided so that an equal amount of time could be devoted between each candidate when delivering argument? She did. The mark for the heads will be solely due to her own determination to not have her ethics corrupted by slackers.

Today S gets told by one of the imprudent that she hadn't bothered to deliver herself at varsity or check her emails in the week and has prepared an entirely different area so everything should be reworked to accommodate her. Dreadlock decides that he will merely snatch some of the S's work and use it for himself and all this while S should deal with it and modify everything she has done cos she is the only one who knows what the fuck is going on...Furthermore S is alerted to the fact that Dreadlock and Imprudent are really in a different field of focus so it really should be S that sorts out the issues at hand.

Well S actually has a degree in their fields which she completed cum laude, plus she is about to get her second degree with a first pass in the field in which they were all expected to engage themselves, so your area of expertise really has nothing to do with the fact you cant string words together in a more sophisticated manner other than insult the person who has afforded you the pass!

What have we learnt? That the mark I get is for everyone elses work that I have done, don’t rely on anyone and group work means that you will have to do all the work if you are not willing to accept others sub-standard results.