When trying to figure out what problem we should tackle for this project, and finding out that four out of the six of us had roommate problems it seemed clear that we tackle one of these problems. Living with a roommate will always have its ups and downs no matter what. I’ve heard of problems from random roommates, best friends who are roommates and even from roommates who just knew each other before they moved in together. The chores that were usually done by your parents are now left up to you and you learn that everyone as their own way of doing things that may differ from you. Two of my group members Sean and Angel are experiencing this right now, the two of them live together, have classes together and even ride long boards across
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They live in a two-bed room townhouse in Brightside Estates with two other roommates, Josh the problem maker and Howard the chill one. To start off with by having four people with four different personalities in a house together can be difficult and figuring out who should do what can be stressful. A little back-story on how these four became roommates is Angel and Sean had previously lived together, but in the interest of saving some money they decided to get two more roommates. They knew josh previously from being in a Biology group and a computer science class together so he wasn’t a completely random stranger. Josh’s personality definitely puts him as the dominator of the group. This soon became evident after he insisted on interviewing their fourth roommate, Howard, before he could move in. After Howard moved in Josh decided without talking to anyone else to make everyone sign a list of house rules that he’d come up …show more content…
Whatever the case, don 't procrastinate; don 't wait to see if it 'll just go away. Address the situation immediately.” (Living with a Roommate: 10 Tips for a Good Roommate Relationship). Sounds cliché since this is for a communication studies class paper, but communication is key to solving any problem. You can count on it being awkward and hard to do, but by using the DESC scripting strategy we learned about solving this conflict and any future conflict will be easy for the boys. Although DESC is the most aggressive approached to solving conflict due to the very inappropriate behavior by Josh, I think it would be the most effective and solve the problem fastest. DESC is an abbreviation for Describe the behavior, Express how you feel, Specify what you want the person to do and finally Consequences if the behavior doesn’t
They live in a two-bed room townhouse in Brightside Estates with two other roommates, Josh the problem maker and Howard the chill one. To start off with by having four people with four different personalities in a house together can be difficult and figuring out who should do what can be stressful. A little back-story on how these four became roommates is Angel and Sean had previously lived together, but in the interest of saving some money they decided to get two more roommates. They knew josh previously from being in a Biology group and a computer science class together so he wasn’t a completely random stranger. Josh’s personality definitely puts him as the dominator of the group. This soon became evident after he insisted on interviewing their fourth roommate, Howard, before he could move in. After Howard moved in Josh decided without talking to anyone else to make everyone sign a list of house rules that he’d come up …show more content…
Whatever the case, don 't procrastinate; don 't wait to see if it 'll just go away. Address the situation immediately.” (Living with a Roommate: 10 Tips for a Good Roommate Relationship). Sounds cliché since this is for a communication studies class paper, but communication is key to solving any problem. You can count on it being awkward and hard to do, but by using the DESC scripting strategy we learned about solving this conflict and any future conflict will be easy for the boys. Although DESC is the most aggressive approached to solving conflict due to the very inappropriate behavior by Josh, I think it would be the most effective and solve the problem fastest. DESC is an abbreviation for Describe the behavior, Express how you feel, Specify what you want the person to do and finally Consequences if the behavior doesn’t