School Confrontation

She backed down - I backed down and I think we met somewhere in the middle - maybe. I'm done fighting it so ah well. Here is the entire email conversation - hopefully I wasn't tooo bitchy...
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I may be the only one and if so I'm sorry but the attitude you have taken toward this project is slightly rubbing me the wrong way. I will get my part done and I will communicate with group members but I don't appreciate being told by someone what to do and when to do it. If I would have known this group had elected a "leader" to dictate how things were done I would have not joined it. Lines such as "If choices are not made within a timely manner, I will assign an individual barrier to you" and telling me that I must check discussion board daily and etc... just rubs me wrong. I want us to be a team and communicate clearly so I thought I would share my frustration openly so that we could proceed forward together.

Respectfully

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Lisa,

I am sorry if I offended you in anyway, however this is a project management course, and the purpose of project management is for groups of people to work together on projects. In order for a project to be successful it is necessary for the project to have a project manager. We all need to work together as a team in order to pull this group project off that is quite extensive. In order for the project to be successful there has to be structure,meetings,deadlines etc. The deadlines for the project are not going to change. I can not force you to participate in the discussion board, but that is where all the information for the project will be. We felt as a team that it would be better to post there, since some people can't always check email. However, I will send emails out as well. If you choose to participate and can make it, our next meeting will be on the 19th of July at 7pm CST. If not you can review the chat archives in the group discussion chat room. However I would greatly appreciate your input and cooperation in making this project a great success!!!If you still have any questions or concerns please let me know. If you feel the issue still has not been resolved then you may contact the professor for further guidance.

Thank you,

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I appreciate what you are saying and I have no problem working and I understand the need for deadlines. What I am saying however is that the past groups I have participated in with CTU decisions such as deadlines, expectations and etc...were decided together in chats and on the discussion boards. From reading the discussion boards, emails and the online chats it appears that you are just deciding what they are and telling everyone and that irks me because this is a team project and while it is about project management no one appointed you or of any of us the "project manager"; it should be team decisions. So if you wanted a Friday deadline for the topics you should have asked in the chat what everyone thought of a Friday deadline instead of just deciding it and saying " I have posted a message in the discussion board giving a deadline of Friday, the 14 of June 2006 to have chosen barriers or they will be assigned one." And you say "they" like those not in the chat were horrible people who don't contribute. Many of us took online classes because we didn't have the luxury of guaranteeing we would be able to be at a certain place at a certain time. I've seen no one in this group that is not participating in some manner so why the attitude?

I will do my part and I will be in the online chats whenever my work schedule allows, it's just your tone that irritates me. I check the discussion boards almost everyday anyway- it wasn't what you said that irritated me it was the way you said it. Your ideas so far have been great and I agree with the deadline and would have if I had been asked, but when demands are made when request would have sufficed it can irritate people quickly, including myself.

Ah well I just will chalk it up to two personalities that are not easily compatible. It happens and I have no plans of letting it interfere with this project if you don't; all I ask is that you tone down the demands. You don't have to ask less; but I'm not in your employee nor am I your student so please ask instead of demand.

Respectfully,

Lisa

P.S. If you need any help putting the power point together let me know. I like the format you choose - very professional looking. Thanks for volunteering to take that on; I'll try to go ahead and have my page in the chosen format to save you some work.

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Everyone that was in the group chat on Tuesday evening agreed with the deadline and didn't have any problems with how things are being done and has agreed with everything so far.

In my last group project a 1/3 of the grade was participating the the group discussion board, so I thought that I was looking out for everyones best interest grade wise! :) I will do my best to communicate thoughts and ideas in a better way.

If you would like to help put the final presentation together, that would be greatly helpful and appreciated!!! Whatever you can do would be a great help. If you cant attend the meetings, if you wouldn't mind could you please either post your thoughts and ideas on the db or just send me an email and I can act on your behalf.

Just let me know if there is anything else that I can do to help make this project go smoother and make it easier on all of us, I would appreciate it and I hope that we can still work together and make this project a great success!

Sincerely,