Do you think that everyone should have a chance to work on the robot? I’ve been set with stuff like buttons, making parts quizzes, and other stupid stuff. What’s Fair?
*Originally posted by David B. Jones *
**Do you think that everyone should have a chance to work on the robot? I’ve been set with stuff like buttons, making parts quizzes, and other stupid stuff. What’s Fair? **
That stuff is not stupid. If you really want to work on the robot, I believe that you should be allowed to get a small share of the action, but it’s not all about building a robot. A team without buttons is a sad team indeed. (no offense to buttonless teams)
Have you talked to your team about the situation? It is possible that they think you have no desire to help build to robot but like those jobs better. YOu should express your desire to take part in the actual building of the robot to them. Usually people are understanding if you explain things to them. So if i were you I would talk to the captain and tell him how you feel. I hope things work out!
Also, the jobs you have are important. My team has had people in the past who mainly worked on administrative duties. In many ways administration is as important as building because without the jobs administrative members do, the team would work very well and be very successful.
Communication is the key… you can’t get anywhere without it, tell your team how you feel about it… chances are they don’t know your interested…
Team spirit and promotion are just as important as the actual builing of the robot. Who’s in charge of team spirit on your team? You can offer to assist at that or if there is no one doing the job you could take charge.
heh, try this on for fair: My team has only four students interested in building (me included, and I’m the only student working on design) so we have almost all we can handle. We do have a few more programmers and some hangers-on, tho. And then we have lotsa mentors, like four of em.
with our team we set up commitees (sorry i can’t spell) and basically…for example (animation, scrapbook, the robot builders, sprit team, and pr)…and when we start our season at the beginning of the year you sign up for what you would like to do and then that’s what you are to do. that way everyone can get a taste of what they like to do and do what they are good at…and that’s good…because it keeps people that aren’t interested in making buttons and posters and etc out of the way of those that like to and enjoy it and it keeps the people who don’t like working on the robot out of the way of those that do. it’s a good thing to have and i’m glad taht we have it. i don’t agree with them not letting you work on the robot…but maybe you should talk to them about…i bet they don’t really know how you really feel about it…and talking about it with them could possibly get you where you wanna be and with helping with the robot…BUT you do need people to make buttons and at least you are contributing to help them get done what needs to be done. no need in really complaining about it (not to be rude) if you aren’t going to do something about it…sometimes you just have to force yourself in there and just start helping…
It wouldn’t be fair if they know that you have a desire to do something but prohibit you from doing it. Many teams would count their blessings if people took genuine interest in wanting to learn and build. Not saying that everyone should get equal working time but if someone’s interested, you shouldn’t push them away from having the oppurtunity to try it.
All the others have said it but I’ll reitterate again how important all the other jobs are, coming from an administrative, travel agent, spirit, team mom girl on the team last year. Without my lil committee there would have been no parts ordered, no flights booked, no hotels reserved, no cars rented, no shirts to wear, no money raised, and probably no food to eat. As our advisor told me last year in Seattle: “Wow, you deal with a lot because if a single thing goes wrong in administration, then the whole team will know and yell at you. But if you don’t hear a word from everyone, that means that you did your job perfectly. So thanks for everything” So here’s a lil shoutout to any other people like that, you have my utmost respect.
The same thing sort of happens to me. I get stuck with the left over jobs. I admit, they are important and need to be done but I feel like I’m being stuck with them because people assume that I’m incapable of doing other jobs.
I have done a lot of work on actually building/desinging the robot/ parts for the robot, so I guess that it all balances out.
I’m going to be TEAM SPIRIT at the regionals, though! 