Proto Himbo EuropeanThere's a specific situation that happens sometimes in #teaching:
Teams of 3-6 students working for weeks on a project. There's a document I created that breaks down the tasks for the project by difficulty and assigns each task to a team member. Later, I grade the project and those tasks are the criteria, weighted by the difficulty rating. The teams have been looking at this for quite a while, and in some cases have modified it to fit their specific working style (I usually encourage this).
Then, during finals week or right before, two things happen:
One or two team members (a minority) begin to tell me things aren't going well, they're doing too much work, the others are flaking out, conveniently not being there, doing shitty work, etc. Generally, this minority has the receipts: they show me the tasks they're working on and it's clear they have spent significant time on them.
When the minority above is not present (e.g. not in the office, or maybe just across a big room presenting the team project to others) the rest of the team comes to me and casually-yet-sincerely tells me "the entire team" agrees that everyone did all tasks equally and they worked together at every step, so they would prefer to not use that complicated document assigning tasks, and "the entire team" wants to share all grades for all tasks equally.
Yeah.