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F*****g bitch in my enterprise group. Quick background: we had to make a product and we’re doing a mock business report- this includes marketing, finance, research etc. She is the ONLY ONE in the group of 6 who does accounting. So, she got assigned finances. Now myself and another lad have basically been running the entire thing because the others are slackers (I have the best luck when it comes to group projects, I swear) but it’s mostly me who did all the work. I reviewed everyone’s sections that they did and made comments next to them (for such basic s**t as ‘cite this please’, as much as I love getting 0% and potentially being kicked out for plagarising, it’s not something I want to do in my final year). 

Now we got ourselves into a hole (sorry I should say they got themselves into the hole) because they said we should target this industry. This industry is made up of middle-aged and old people, the younger more focused platforms we were targeting, this group would not use. Our projected sales were very low and I said “lads, we’re targeting this industry, we should at least make one small bulk sale of say 30 units from a company” and also “why are we sending it in a parcel, we could send it an envelope and save at least €1.50 per product?”. The girl who did the accounting said “You can do it yourself, I’m not going to do any more, I’m done”.

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Am I your f*****g bitch, Your Majesty? Myself and this guy have spent probably 10 times the amount of time your lazy ass spent on your part. She then said “you don’t know my personal circumstances, I have siblings to look after”. Oh ex-f*****g-cuse me, I just remembered that “personal circumstances” is an acceptable excuse for you to just refuse to do anything else, when you LITERALLY HAVE TWO DAYS BEFORE SUBMISSION DATE TO DO IT, YOU LAZY C—.

I said “oh you think you have personal circumstances? Do you want to know what happened to me today?” and she said “no because it’s none of my business”. Sweetheart, I don’t give two flying f*****g fiddles if you have to babysit your siblings. Just put on 6 episodes of Paw Patrol and let them have a great time. This report is worth 60% OF OUR GRADE AND YOU’RE TOO SELFISH AND LAZY TO PULL YOUR OWN DAMN WEIGHT.

So she refused to do it and the other people in the group are her friends so obviously they don’t want to fall out with her because she’s a selfish prick. She said “it’s a fictional business, we’re expected to make mistakes”. Not if we can fix them before you make them, we’d be literally throwing in excess of €400 away each year on unnecessary delivery charges the way she had it structured. A great f*****g accountant, she’ll make.

I told her to send me on her books and I’d do them. It took me about an hour to update and then another 1.5 hours to do the rest of the s**t she was too lazy to do. 

I cannot wait until I can send the email to the lecturer saying she refused to do any more work, despite the fact myself and this fella have picked up the slack for literally everyone else. She should be getting 16% of the credit but I’m going to give her 10% because f**k you, you useless slob. She’s a soon-to-be accountant and she leaves me (the person with 1 year accounting experience) to finish her f*****g books. I’m going to wreck her 🙂 .

She said she’d send an email to her lecturer describing her situation but I honestly don’t care. The day, I’ve had and I’ve probably spent about 8 hours on this stupid thing. 6 hours of which was doing stuff that wasn’t actually my stuff 🙂 .

Cannot f*****g wait to be finished with university group projects, a lazier bunch of f***s you will never meet in your life.

I had the report finished 6pm yesterday and I sent it to everyone. Note: I had the key job of receiving everyone’s parts and reviewing them. I sent them back once with notes for the main things that had to be done (as previously stated). When they sent them back to me again, most of them were fine, there were just awkward sentences (things phrased oddly, overly-long sentences, things not explained properly), missed citations and previously stated information in other sections that I could cut, and I fixed those because it takes me 5 minutes, over me sending them back to them with what has to be changed and then waiting 2 hours for them to see it and reply to me. I was the only one that had read all sections so I knew what could be added from others (projected finances) into the ‘Where do we seeing ourselves in 2 years’ time?’ etc.

I was not going continuing work on that project today so I did all the tiny bits myself.

I sent an email then at 6pm, thanking everyone for getting their work in on time and I hilariously attached a gif because I am hip with that kids you know (Frodo’s ‘It’s Done’ for the curious).

So, the girl who did marketing sent me an email this morning that said:

Thanks for formatting it. I’ve never had my work corrected by another member before it was submitted lol. No need to thank me for contributing, it’s my work too ? *laughing face*

To which I went….I don’t know if that’s a ‘thanks’ or a passive aggressive ‘f**k you for changing my words’ comment. 

So I thought it was in a jokey manner and sent a ‘got to get that 1:1, want a scholarship for my master’s ;)’ email back.

And then I got back this (after 18 hours had passed and no one had sent me any email of complaint or queries, so I put out the ‘submitted’ version and submitted it).

I’m also aiming to keep my 1:1! It’s a bit annoying you felt the need to make little minor changes to my work –  I understand you want to do well but it is group work and that was my contribution. 

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I did a little scan on it and 90% of it was the original work that she had sent me. 83% the exact words, 4% grammar changes (apostrophes and commas), 3% was me changing words (like she said there was a ‘Brexit election’, no hun it was a referendum), and the other 10% was me making links to previous sections (that she would have had no idea about unless she had read all the other sections, which she never told me that she wanted to read), adding 2 or 3 citations that she hadn’t done and breaking up 2 massive sentences (they were 50 words each), into 4 shorter sentences.

I haven’t bothered to reply to her, she can send me a ‘thank you’ letter when she gets a 1:1. 

I’m not holding up any hope that I’ll get one.

Final group project, final basket of c***s that make doing projects I’d prefer to do alone, a living hell.