Work: Today, I've now received my 73rd email in two days about my masters...

By IHateGroupProjects - 25/04/2012 13:25 - United States - Riverdale

Today, I've now received my 73rd email in two days about my masters group project on policy recommendations for security reform. One group member has helpfully rewritten everything, and our project is now titled "Zeus's Earthly Kingdom." It's due today. FML

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By Gunaditya Tripathi - 14/08/2021 13:31 - India

Today, one of my colleagues was asked to rewrite an entire project, which I wrote last week. I'd spent more than 4 days writing it. FML

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The ole answer/forward conundrum

By Master's_degree_in_failure - 17/10/2020 22:30

Today, I "answered" an email instead of "forwarding" it. As a result, there is a chance that my Master's thesis supervisor gets a message from me starting by the F-word, and complaining about my bad work and inability to understand a deadline. FML

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By TeachingSucks - 17/05/2023 11:00 - United States - Cabot

Today, I'm grading final projects for a junior level college class. A student finally turned in their work, after months of encouragement and coaxing. Half of it was plain wrong, the rest had so many spelling and grammatical mistakes, it appeared to be written by a drunk autocorrect program. FML

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By This is gonna suck - 30/12/2022 05:00 - United States

Today, and for the past three months, I've been stuck in a group project with three students who spend 90% of their time talking to each other. This project is mandatory to graduate, and a team effort is practically required in order to do well. I can already feel senioritis kicking in. FML

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By milamadeleine243 - 22/10/2020 14:00

Today, I finished a huge project for work. It took 3+ days and I was very proud of it. Except when I submitted it to my boss, he said that he'd already asked another person to do it. He used that person's project, not mine. FML

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By I'm donnnneeee - 21/09/2015 03:26 - United States - Slidell

Today, I finished a 6-part project. It took me 7 hours of straight work because my partner decided I should do it alone. I then learned that the reason my partner did not help me was because the teacher e-mailed the leader of every group, saying the project was cancelled. FML

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By Anonymous - 04/05/2014 18:57 - United States

Today, I met up with my group for class. We were doing some final checks on the project we've been working on all semester, when I realized something about one guy's work seemed off. I googled it and found out it's almost completely plagiarized. It's all due in the morning. FML

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Great replacement

By Bottom feeder - 08/01/2016 03:41 - Hong Kong - Ngau Tau Kok

Today, my boss dropped a highly important and dense report on my desk that had to be finished by the end of the day. After the initial panic attack and hours of scrupulous work, I finished. She then asked me to pick up the revised copy, where my name was replaced with hers. FML

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Overworked

By Anonymous - 25/11/2022 22:00 - Europe

Today, I have several projects to finish and one exam tomorrow. There's this one project I do not know how to do, and nobody has told me the goddamn topics for tomorrow's exam, plus for some reason, there are too many ants crawling in my office, desk, and a few on my PC monitor. I rarely eat in my office. So, yeah. FML

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Lazybones

By ProjectDude - 20/10/2021 17:00 - United States

Today, a group project for work was due. I honestly forgot about it and edited some words to make it seem like I worked on it. Did you know that Google Docs spreadsheet can track not only the changes made, but who made the changes? My colleagues were pissed. FML

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dertwev 0

Wednesday 25 April 2012 17:57

Group projects blow.

flockz 19

Wednesday 25 April 2012 17:58

no one ***** with zeus, or his kingdom.

Comments

Spectre529 12

Wednesday 25 April 2012 18:06

This is why when the option is there, is to choose to work alone

DocBastard 38

Wednesday 25 April 2012 18:07

If the policies on security reform are about Mount Olympus, you're golden. You have to figure out how to keep those mere mortals where they belong. I have these same problems in the Bastard Ivory Tower.

Cad6 24

Wednesday 25 April 2012 22:30

The same Bastard Ivory Tower where you sit on a golden throne sipping 1957 fermented wine?

wlddog 14

Thursday 26 April 2012 15:45

No. It's two towers down from that one.

XHerobrineX 4

Friday 27 April 2012 0:52

Are you sure? I thought that the one with "Bastard Tower" inscribed on the front was Doc's

loserman67 35

Wednesday 25 April 2012 18:09

Number one: Group projects pretty much always blow donkey balls... Number two: You're pretty much ******, nuff said... Number three: Find the douche bag and ram the report down his/her throat... Number four: Enjoy your "extended" semester!

RoseTintMyWorld 8

Wednesday 25 April 2012 18:14

If it was a group project why did you let one person "helpfully" write it? You probably just threw all the work on the guy and he's just getting back at you.

The_Hitdude 12

Wednesday 25 April 2012 18:23

You need to improve your reading skills. It says "helpfully REwritten", which means they'd already written it before he decided to **** it up. But let's say you're right, and they did give him all of the work. Even then, doing that would not only compromise their grade, but his too. He's apart of the group, no?

DeathBunny218 37

Wednesday 25 April 2012 18:17

Haha, my last group project was called Violent Dysentery. I wonder what it was called before they renamed it...

vbmg152 18

Wednesday 25 April 2012 18:22

I hope someone saved the original! If not, YDI!!

KiddNYC1O 20

Wednesday 25 April 2012 18:28

Ah, it's never unanimous.

perdix 29

Wednesday 25 April 2012 18:35

Thunderbolts hurled from Mt. Olympus would be a security reform we can believe in. So would being randomly raped by a bull or a swan. You're lucky to have been associated with such a smart group.

Meettitan 14

Wednesday 25 April 2012 20:03

I thought it was every woman's dream to be ravaged by the god-king himself in bird form...

perdix 29

Wednesday 25 April 2012 20:36

That depends on whether you want to give birth to a demigod, or don't want to get punished for tearing the tags off mattresses;)

usnwife 18

Wednesday 25 April 2012 18:35

I he rewrote it, shouldnt at least one of you have the original still? I always keep a copy of the best draft when doing a group project, and I also make sure to turn in the paper that has everyone's assignments on it with how the project was divided up so if one person falls short the teacher knows who it was. Some teachers can be assholes about it, but of you handle the situation right and explain what happened and how you worked hard to keep a good grade, they will usually help you out if your group mates screw you over. If you didn't even try to salvage your grade, you YDI.