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30 Times People Had Such Terrible Group Project Members, They Decided To Shame The Jerks Online
If you've ever worked on a group project, you know how frustrating it is when someone isn't contributing as much as they should. If not, chances are, you're the slacker.
However, there's a subreddit where you can publicly shame these people and get at least some retribution.
Whether you need to vent because your partner can't get anything right or they haven't even responded to your messages, it's the place to blow off steam.
Of course, you can also scroll through the sub just out of curiosity. Like you're doing anthropological research on how infuriating and downright useless some folks can be. Spoiler: a lot.
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Dan Buczynski 5 years ago
I love all the anti-maskers who keep telling everyone how "fatigued" they are by all this without being able to understand it's them that's dragged this out so long.
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Sound advice: NEVER tell your boss to hire someone. If they turn out to be slackers or worse, your boss is going to hold you accountable because "You told me to hire this person."
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ThatOneCrazyFanGirl 5 years ago
Soo.. your partner won't respond to your texts AND he matched up with you on tinder? dump him. take all the credit. (of the assignment)
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Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
Thats just someone who uses that person as a handy "friend". Glad the other one stood up to it and didn't do it. High school smh. Mind you some ppl stay that mental age for life.
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#19
This is for a Master's course
#23
My uni lets us peer-review team members after a project (which affects grades)...
#25
On a group project (9 slides and 25 guided questions that I had to do on my own)
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WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
So leave his name out when you hand in the project with a print of this conversation.
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Bow, I’m a Slytherin 5 years ago
I don’t know the full story, but this doesn’t sound too bad. They could’ve easily forgot from being nervous or something, but on a different note, they might just be lazy.
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Alex the awful German 5 years ago
aren't we talking about the battery status only 7%? Makes me nervous....
#30
Our project is due Tuesday and she canceled on our group meeting 1 hour before
#31
We had two weeks to do this lab report with in-class reminders and everyone else forgot. Or “forgot”
#32
Gave this dude until 25 minutes before class to participate, then shut him out of the presentation
#34
"This was a couple years ago, but the professor had said if your whole group didn't show up on presentation day, everyone in the group would lose 25 points. Ended up running out of time before we had to present so luckily we got to do it another day, but group member didn't know that and would've cost us our grades."
#35
Thanks for letting me know! Good thing the project isn’t due tomorrow and I already did your work!
#36
I fixed some inconsistent formatting and errors but alright
#37
Has not been here a single day of the project even though he lives across the road from campus in a ludicrously expensive downtown apt. B/c his parent pay all his rent/bills/school while he doesn’t even work... We all work and commute and I walk 20 mins from my parking spot every day
#38
Group member says she doesn't need to include citations in her section, because my section has so many that no one will notice
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A.M. Pierre 5 years ago
Has there ever been a group project EVER where everyone pulled their weight? My teachers would say “it’ll teach you how to work together”. Nope. It taught me there are jerks everywhere who will take advantage of and credit for other’s hard work.
Bill Cipher 5 years ago
this was during online class so even better oportunities to get away from computer and not have anyone notice i was the ONLY ONE DOING THE WORK AND I WAS SHARING THE ANSWERS WITH THEM (it was a thanksgiving themed escape room thing with a google form) THEY DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING I WAS PULLING ALL THE WEIGHT AND GETTING ALL PISSED. eventually the teacher came and i was let out early since i did so much work. never ever sharing answers with people again in group projects like that. if they don't want to help? they can fail
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Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
When I was 11 we had a group project, I was with two other girls who were "friends" when it suited them/if I was useful. Because of my insecurity and all this other stuff, I'd always just taken it so I wasn't alone. We had to make a 3d mobile with facts about bees and pollination. Well on the day before it's due (they'd avoided me all week) I said when are we doing this; the laughed and said ur not in our group any more. I panicked so asked teacher if I could do mine on my own(she knew what'd happened and said yes). Well, I turn up next day with a large bee with flowers under it, really cool (mum helped lol as I had one day and got screwed over). And the two girls? They had a coat hanger with a few bits of wool holding scraps of paper with a few facts. They saw mine and were all "oh we were just kidding" etc. It was so hard to do but for the first time in my life I decided I was better off being alone than having them as fake friends. I presented mine alone, got top marks. They were...
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
...failed as it didn't meet criteria. And less than two weeks later I met my first real friend, who I stayed friends with for years. I don't see her much now she lives overseas. TLDR: 11yr old, kicked out of the project the night before, did my own one and got great grade, their project failed.
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IAmKaLm 5 years ago (edited)
I feel like most sane people have this experience atleast once in life. Recently, two guys from my class and I were responsible for teaching a topic to the class using GSlides, Forms and mindmaps. The third guy didn't join us for discussion and asked us to pick whatever we wanted him to take up. Literally no communication until 5 minutes before the presentation, where he informs the other guy, he can't do one of the two tiny topics we chose for him. The icing on the cake was definitely the part where he pulled a no-show to class
A.M. Pierre 5 years ago
Has there ever been a group project EVER where everyone pulled their weight? My teachers would say “it’ll teach you how to work together”. Nope. It taught me there are jerks everywhere who will take advantage of and credit for other’s hard work.
Bill Cipher 5 years ago
this was during online class so even better oportunities to get away from computer and not have anyone notice i was the ONLY ONE DOING THE WORK AND I WAS SHARING THE ANSWERS WITH THEM (it was a thanksgiving themed escape room thing with a google form) THEY DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING I WAS PULLING ALL THE WEIGHT AND GETTING ALL PISSED. eventually the teacher came and i was let out early since i did so much work. never ever sharing answers with people again in group projects like that. if they don't want to help? they can fail
Load More Replies... Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
When I was 11 we had a group project, I was with two other girls who were "friends" when it suited them/if I was useful. Because of my insecurity and all this other stuff, I'd always just taken it so I wasn't alone. We had to make a 3d mobile with facts about bees and pollination. Well on the day before it's due (they'd avoided me all week) I said when are we doing this; the laughed and said ur not in our group any more. I panicked so asked teacher if I could do mine on my own(she knew what'd happened and said yes). Well, I turn up next day with a large bee with flowers under it, really cool (mum helped lol as I had one day and got screwed over). And the two girls? They had a coat hanger with a few bits of wool holding scraps of paper with a few facts. They saw mine and were all "oh we were just kidding" etc. It was so hard to do but for the first time in my life I decided I was better off being alone than having them as fake friends. I presented mine alone, got top marks. They were...
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
...failed as it didn't meet criteria. And less than two weeks later I met my first real friend, who I stayed friends with for years. I don't see her much now she lives overseas. TLDR: 11yr old, kicked out of the project the night before, did my own one and got great grade, their project failed.
Load More Replies... IAmKaLm 5 years ago (edited)
I feel like most sane people have this experience atleast once in life. Recently, two guys from my class and I were responsible for teaching a topic to the class using GSlides, Forms and mindmaps. The third guy didn't join us for discussion and asked us to pick whatever we wanted him to take up. Literally no communication until 5 minutes before the presentation, where he informs the other guy, he can't do one of the two tiny topics we chose for him. The icing on the cake was definitely the part where he pulled a no-show to class
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