Today, I photocopied several hundred pages of my school's textbook because I didn't want to buy it. My school later says to just buy it and it will be reimbursed. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I bought a textbook for my college class. Not only is the £150 book only sold by our teacher, it turned out to be a piece of shit that he obviously wrote, printed, and stapled together at home. When I went to the faculty about it, I was told it's all perfectly legal, and to drop it. FML
Today, I bought my very first college textbook. I received a stack of hole-punched papers. My $195 "book" isn’t even bound together. FML
Today, I turned in my homework. Too bad I accidentally handed in the printed answer sheet I found online to copy from. FML
Today, after waiting two weeks for an email with my online textbook access code, it still hadn't arrived in time for my quiz tomorrow, so I ended up spending most of my money on the expensive physical copy. Not long after I got back home, the email finally arrived. FML
Today, my classmate told me she can copy an article from the internet and hand that in, as long as she cites it at the end. FML
Today, I went to the local used books store to sell all my college textbooks. I spent several hundred dollars on them in total. I ended up walking out of the shop a pathetic $3.50 richer. FML
Today, I started at a new college. I bought my textbooks and went to my first class only to find out that they changed my schedule without telling me. I'd already opened the book. I could not get $200 back. FML
Today, after having too many projects for end of term, I asked to borrow my sister's paper that she used for the same class last year. After submitting it online, I found the example paper that the teacher handed out. My teacher used my sister's paper from last year as an example for us. FML
Today, my son got expelled after using the photocopier to photocopy his penis. He then used the copies to replace every directional arrow posted throughout the school. FML
Today, a student's parent yelled at me because they had to pay for school equipment their son had stolen from my desk. Apparently, it's my fault because the item was just too tempting for him not to steal. FML
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m0tl3ycru3 0
Way to go tree killer!
UpsideDownTurtle 6
Bind the photocopied pages together and sell it to the next un-informed student for cheaper.
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Comments (131)
kansah 25
Unlucky.
OfficeNinja 5
Are you that cheap? Did you consider that the cost of making the copies, plus the time wasted making the copies, plus the Starbucks coffee you drink in a week could have bought the book?
zebrapattern 6
they probably won't. schools like to screw people over as many times as possible.
zebrapattern 6
they probably won't. schools like to screw people over as many times as possible.
ChaosEngine 5
Karma. Pure and simple Karma. Next time, just buy the book; people like you just raise the price for the rest of us, as the book company has to get their profits somehow. Can't afford it? Take out a student loan; everyone else does.
tj4234 36
cost of photocopying was probably higher than the cost of the book :L.
stokation 0
That sounds illegal
kiraleann 16
What they didn't tell you is their "reimbursement" is like a fourth of what you would have paid for it.
floopyflooper 2
I don't get why everyone was saying YDI. Textbooks can be really expensive. I know I spent 600 dollars on textbooks for one semester and when you're a college student that's a lot of money. Most schools don't reimburse you so how would OP have known?
Dr_Amazing 1
Wow a lot of people really have no idea how expensive text books are. There is no way paying to make a copy would even come close to the cost of the book. It's pretty common for books to cost hundreds of dollars. I once bought a programming book the teacher said we needed. It cost $120 and we never used it at all. I brought it back to the book store and they wouldn't buy it because no teachers were using it the next year.