Today, my research partner emails me 2 hours before our deadline saying that she can't complete her half of our 20 page report because when she woke up this morning she couldn't see. How did she write the email? FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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
Today, I pulled an all-nighter to finish an essay. I submitted it one minute before the deadline. Later, I opened the file to double-check and realized I'd uploaded my rough draft, containing notes like “THIS PART MAKES NO SENSE, FIX LATER.” The professor then replied, “I agree with your assessments.” FML
Today, my mom wrote me an email, asking how I was doing after an accident yesterday. I wrote back at length, telling her everything in detail. Two hours later, she calls me on the phone, asking how I am. She was simply too lazy to check her mail and expected me to tell her everything a second time. FML
Today, I turned in an essay after staying up late to work on it. I was away when the teacher assigned it, so I'd asked my friend what the subject was. It transpires that she'd given me the wrong one, all because she was mad at me for not returning her pencil. FML
Today, after retyping a 22-page report for work because the orginal had gone missing, i realized I had used a different laptop the first time. I now have 2 copies of the same report, both of which are late. FML
Today, the woman I have been seeing said she couldn't see a future with me. This was all because I didn't text her back when I fell asleep after working a double night/morning shift. FML
Today, my boss asked me to send an email on his behalf with an important report attached. I've already received 3 responses from directors commenting on poor spelling and factual errors. I get paid 1/4 the salary of my boss and he can't even write properly. FML
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
Today, my mom woke me up in the middle of the night to make me help my brother write an essay. I read what he wrote so far, gave him my suggestions, and went back to bed. She woke me up 30 mins later because he just sat and stared at his paper instead of fixing anything. Somehow that's my fault. FML
Today, I got a text just before class that my partner didn't finish their half of our 30 page research paper because: "That class is stupid." FML
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Kathryynn 0
lol they really didnt think their excuse out :P
Witchcraft_fml 5
Why should he have to babysit her? She's old enough to do it herself without someone having to check up on her.
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Comments (103)
AnnoyingFlamingo 0
Hello, braille? She obviously magically went blind and then slept in late because she wad hung over from a party which you were to busy to go to and then rubbed a lamp to summen a genie in which she asked for a Braille keyboard. There ya go. Your questions answered.
brown_walls 0
there's no reason why she couldn't have written the email. my mother is blind, and she can use a computer perfectly well! she has software to help her but stilll, she COULD manage without... i think it is rational.
Ninjaface 0
I believe that now's the part where you make a crooked deal with the professor...
Grangoire 0
**** her. Submit your half and her email with your astute observation noted at the bottom.
Grangoire 0
@brown_walls Most people don't know how to use screen-reader software let alone how to operate a computer blind. And given that she 'suddenly' woke up blind, I doubt she would have had the computer prepared for the sudden affliction. Finally, if you really wake up blind, notifying your research partner about your excuse isn't going to be your top priority. Besides, blind or not, a 20 page paper should have been completed prior to the day it is due. It was an excuse, and a transparent one at that.
Lutrino 0
I had this problem last year in college, it was a 3 peer group and we split the work betweek us three, she decided not to do her part of the work and so we did our part and waited for her to give in hers, since we regularly contacted her and she said everything was under control. A week before the deadline we asked her for it because we had to put it together and get ready for the presentation, she decided to miss college and 2 days before the deadline tells the head of the course that we took her for an idiot so she didn't do the work. So the guy talks to us about it and we both disagree and explain that she's making up excuses to not doing any work, he looked through her attendance which was poor as hell and she was never in class and they assumed she was lying just to get a grade in that unit, which was what she wanted to be honest. So the teacher graded us on our work, gave us 3 days to gather up the rest of the research and put it all together, in the end we both got a destinction and she got nothing. We don't talk anymore but that just makes you see what people are like nowadays. This year we are going to do grouped work again, guess what i'm doing, i'm doing most of the parts on my own because i can't be bothered to put up with people's lazyness.. you should do that too :P trust me it's the best way out.
livn4fun89 0
I voted YDI, because you should have checked on your partners progress WAY before two hours to deadline.
Witchcraft_fml 5
So she needs a babysitter? GTFO
Sabella 0
I agree that that does suck but really if your partner was a flake you should have noticed this pryer to the email.
abnormalagonist 0
Test her alibi. Try to get her alone and either maul her or violently rape her. :))
Risotto_fml 11
FYL. I always get stuck with bad partners for group projects and even if you check up on them constantly they still won't do their work, and you get stuck doing most of the project.