Team Dynamic Problems

[Lo4ding]

Vexlover I thought we chose not to disclose this information in public

[Cadaver_42]

I am greatly disturbed and I agree with @2775Josh here that is something that needs to be addressed at a higher level than a robotics team with that person.

[Vexlover72]

This topic was not meant to be shown to the public but the cats out the bag

[RNA]

ok let’s just move on.

[Sam_9364E]

I’m so incredibly confused…

[Railgunawesome]

How do you even get attracted to a vex robot? All my robot does to me is rip my skin open. They’re nothing but brutally sharp edges!

[anon4126930]

@Vexlover72

You want to avoid having member of the team fall in love with the robot. Our team had trouble with this this season. A member of our team grew fond of our robot so they started an intimate relationship with it. We all thought it was odd but we let the relationship continue until it escalated. I don’t want to go into details but their behavior with the robot was not appropriate so we had to kick him off the team. After the traumatic event, we don’t think we will continue our team.

I think the kid shouldn’t be kicked from the team, but maybe counseling should be taken place. “objectophilia” is not normal, but looking further into it:

Some experts believe that it is caused by a childhood trauma, such as sexual abuse.

[squiddy_slapper]

What in the world. Having a relationship with the robot is the weirdest thing I have ever heard in vex

[JustALonelyAstronaut]

My team last year absolutely sucked. I mean, we did well at comps, but we had some very bad problems. I was a sixth grader, and it was my first year in VEX, I had another 6th grader, a 7th grader, and 2 8th graders on my team. One of the eighth graders went all dictator mode on us and wouldn’t let us use anything except his ideas. The other sixth grader, who was my best friend, and I eventually went to an extra build session and built a crappy H drive. That was four months after our season started. We eventually finished out the season with that same H drive, and the 7th grader driving. Oh yeah, that was another thing. The 8th grader wouldn’t let anyone else drive the robot. And the other eighth grader followed him around like a puppy. She did everything he did, and supported him, then eventually, in April, right before our only comp of the year, my friend and the two eighth graders quit. It was me and the 7th grader, and we worked well together. He coded, and I was like a multi-tool. I did whatever needed to get done. And we worked well together. Then the dictator came back at one of th elast practices of the year, after we modified the bot and added a ball launcher and cap flipper, and yelled at me for making the robot better. Overall, the whole year absolutely sucked. And I know this doesn’t really add anything to this, I just had to share this story because that experience was borderline traumatizing.

[PhoenixGold]

Aw that really sucks. That wasn’t a very good impression of VEX for your first time but it did expose the ugly sides. Thank you for sharing this though because other people with similar situations will feel better knowing there are others going through similar situations.