Shirking - what does it mean?

To shirk

–verb (used with object)
1. to evade (work, duty, responsibility, etc.). –verb (used without object)
2. to evade work, duty, etc. –noun
3. a shirker.

1633, "to practice fraud or trickery," also a noun (1639, now obs.) "a disreputable parasite," perhaps from Ger. schurke "scoundrel, rogue, knave, villain" (see shark). Sense of "evade one's work or duty" first recorded 1785, originally in slang.

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So what does it mean? What does it apply to? Well shirkers are those who are in a group but do not perform according to group norms. They are basically the slackers. It's a term that has become reborn in the twenty first century. Today people want to get payed to do nothing. People often want credit or take credit for group projects where they contribute little or nothing. As an example in my group project for a class a guy shirked as the rest of us did the majority of the work for the group for a good twenty minutes before he was confronted. The project at hand was to classify data data. There were five group members. Two were assigned to categorize data. One person was assigned to quantify and group the data. I was assigned to enter the data into an excel sheet. Soon we assigned him a project. The bigger the group the easier it is to shirk. A classmate said many people were shirking in a group project that a professor assigned that involved seventeen people. Please, a little common sense would be great.

Shirking is becoming the plague of the 21st century. Beware.

Rule Changes 4 Sports

I propose the following changes to sports...

Basketball - minimum requirement age to be changed to 21. There are too many immature players out there that get into trouble when they become millionaires overnight and have not a clue what to do with themselves due to immaturity.

Baseball - 3 Challenges per game added. Challangable calls would be base calls. This would mean 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and home bases along with double play or tripple calls could be challenged. Other plays wouldn't be challangable. A flag could be used by the manager to challenge a play.

To all: Stricter rules on drug abuse and breaking the law. It is shameful how many athletes commit crimes (including drug abuse) and never do time. This is a backwards rewards system where it is considered "cool" or "bad" (a good thing) to be involved with breaking the law.