Collaboration : the good, the bad and the ugly.

I have not had the most amazing experiences with collaboration throughout school. I think that some people just may not be cut out for it. I am all for working with others to create even better ideas, but as I said, some individuals really shouldn’t be doing it full stop. Those people are the worst kind of people. The people who do no work at all, expect you to do everything for them, then receive the same grade as you when everyone this side of the equator knows fine well that they shouldn’t have even passed in the first place. I can’t deal with this type of people, yet usually i’m forced to mutually share a group with someone who encourages this flurry of anger within you as you watch them slack off, confront them about it and then continue to watch them to slack off further. The only difference then being that they have a smug look across their face because they are now acutely aware that you can’t bear to share the credit for your hard work, or even look at them at all.

Don’t get me wrong, there are instances where teamwork and collaboration can be great. That is if you have a great group of people who are interested and will work hard. It’s rewarding to bounce ideas off one another and see other approaches to different matters, it just seems to me that is an extreme rarity. Unfortunately I have had more negative than positive experiences with collaboration and this is where i’m supposed to write that I intend to upon up my mindset and approach things in a different way, and I do. I do intend on embracing collaboration, I just think that if it weren’t for some people that have plagued the concept for me initially, I wouldn’t have to adjust my attitude. All you have to do is put in some effort and do a bit of work, just try. Please, just do anything, it’s better than nothing.