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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Despair

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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Damn kids

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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Runner up

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

theDeafAids 3

Wednesday 25 April 2012 19:51

backups! now youve learned, and are wiser.

stevenmx86 7

Wednesday 25 April 2012 19:52

How do you not deserve this? This is what you get for letting someone else do all of the work..

THE_A_TEEN 27

Wednesday 25 April 2012 19:59

He said "REwritten". Basically, someone tarnished the GROUP's grade for no apparent reason. Reading comprehention is a wonderful thing.

Almighty_Chris97 6

Wednesday 25 April 2012 21:47

How many people are going to make comments like this before they start reading the FML right?

Mommyof2_91 10

Thursday 26 April 2012 4:59

I hope this is the last comment I see saying OP deserved it for not doing work. Read people, PLEASE.

Squeaky_Tomato 14

Tuesday 1 May 2012 17:14

I agree. If OP was the one who had written the paper then there would be a copy on his computer. However, since OP is freaking out that it got rewritten it is obvious OP didnt write it in the first place.

Creepy_Apple 1

Wednesday 25 April 2012 20:06

Take comfort in the originality of your paper; your supervisor might find it refreshing. You could always submit an earlier version of the paper.

sportcrazychick4 7

Wednesday 25 April 2012 20:14

Well you guys obviously emailed each other the papers which means you each would of had to save the papers on your computer before adding it to an email in, which you would have the original copy. Solved!!