I’m not entirely shure if I should be angry or not, but part of me is, and I’m trying to decide whether I should acept it and do something about the situation or ease back, or not.
Background - I’m getting my Business Admin/Logistics Bachelor’s. The current class I’m in is a titanic pain, with an absurdly stupid lecture (the entire hourlong lecture could be condensed into about ten minutes) and a section once a week. The core of the class is a group project. We are asigned into teams and play and online Business competing with other in our course. Each team has completel control of adveritisng, marketing targets, segments we go after, the products we design (computers, but we can build many types with diffferent components), and where we make and sell things, and how we finance it, etc.
In a way, it’s fun and exhilerating. We also spend about 3-5 hours a week just preparing things as a group, and usually more indivdually. It’s a huge task.
Well, last night, we were submitting our plans for this week when I found three gorup members (out of five) had decided, contrary to our plans made as a group, to just switch over some items and alter what we were selling. The points they cited in their email were basically the ones which were raised and considered earlier in the week. It wasn’t a disaster (we’ve climbed in the ranks from #4 to #3 to #2 in marketshare now), and we’ll never know how the alternative went out, I felt ignored and betrayed.
My team has the bad habit of meeting for the game, but not really doing anything, so I get to be the “bad guy” for holding their noses to the grindstone. They frequently raise “objections or ideas”, but can’t articulate any reason for them. I’m tired of having to force them to work through things logically instead of making decisions just randomly. if I ask people for opinions, usually 1 will respond with an irrelevant or just plain " " comment, one will sort of confusedly say, “maybe this way or maybe that way or maybe something else”, and two will ignore me.
It’s like herding cats.
Despite this, they were very smart and I respect them a lot. It’s because I respect them that I want to work with them and get things done. But they just kinda slack off it. Last night, I couldn’t get in touch with them despite calling everyone, so I had to make a decision on my own I normally wouldn’t. I won’t entirely blame them for it,. But I was still at my cellphone the whole time and taking “business” calls, and nobody bothered to get in touch with me.