‘I did the workload of 3 people’: Computer science student spends over 150 hours on the code for a group project, doing the workload of 3 people; his team takes credit for all of it

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Eleonora Bader
Dec 1, 2023 9:00 AM EST

School group projects are never divided equally, and one person always ends up doing the workload of everyone else. The annoying part in this (besides doing more work than you should), is that everyone still ends up getting credit. When I was in high school, I had to make a movie. Okay, I exaggerated, and that sounds a little more impressive than it actually ended up being. We were put in a group of 4 and were told we had to come up with an idea for a 10-minute film. Then we had to pick a location, actors, and costumes, and get to work filming.

My group partners were useless, and I ended up doing everything on my own. The film was even sent to a film festival (We lost… miserably) and we got a great mark for it at school, and I was FUMING. I could not believe that they were getting credit for something they took little to no part in. But, that's life, and in the story below, the exact same thing happens, just in computer science, and not in film. One student got even with his group members who took credit for all his work. Scroll down and read what happened, and then for more, check out this woman who refused to get involuntarily kicked out of her home by her petty roommates.

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    NODE 03 ror_mod.use_ True irror moduse/z= False False operation="MIRROR S irror_mod.use_x= False irror_mod.use_y= True irror_mod.use "They took all the credit even though I did the entire workload; there was no way I was letting that slide..." fectimier ron BLOCK 01 selec
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    Got told to assignment group, and that's just what I did off by my XL OC I'm on phone so please ignore the formatting issues.
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    I do a computer science degree at university. We had a group work project which is set out in two stages. Part A, involved making an application, and writing a report about it (50/50 split). Part B, we got feedback from part A and had to improve upon it. In total it was 100% of a module.
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    It is also important to note that there is a group contribution report (gcr). Where each student puts in how much they think each student has done. I was in a randomly selected group with 4 others, we each picked a parts of the work that we wanted to do.
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    I was apparently the groups most confident coder so assigned myself about half of the code. And finish up my work in about the first 3 weeks and work on other projects I have for other modules. Then soon after I finished my work, the others ask me if I can do
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    their parts of the code too,I initially protest as I have my other coursework due but eventually I say fine, but so long as it is noted in the gcr they all agree. I sweat it out over the next 3 weeks or so alongside my other coursework.
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    I contacted my module organiser explaining that I had done half the work and they suggested if people weren't pulling thier weight to leave the group (taking my code with me) and do the report. That would mean I would need to work flat out to produce the report and probably would mess it up. I didn't want that. The deadline was in about a week.
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    And I honestly I CBA. Then I got asked to do some report too, because they didn't understand how the code worked. By this point I felt pretty used by them. Didn't really mind so long as I got the marks.
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    All in all I worked out that I had done the workload of 3 people. There was talk amongst the others of all writing that we each contributed 20% of the workload to "make us look better as a team". I flatly refused. They exploded calling me with every name under the sun, swearing at me, telling me to "... off".
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    I sent off my GCR with 60 for me and 10 each for the rest. And thought that was that. My module organiser then emailed me asking if I had any proof of this as they all put me at 0% and themselves at 25%.
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    I'd worked my off on this project putting in 150+ hours on the code and another 50+ on the diagrams and report. All while attending lectures 20 hours a week. Over 7 weeks which if you do that maths averages at an extra 4 hours a day. Ontop of all my other assignments and commitments
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    etc. There was no way I was letting it slide. I emailed him back linking him to the github I used to share the code with the team (github is a source control that shows who made changes to the code) and showed him that all the
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    commits (version of the code) were done by me proving that I did all of it. And thankfully we did the whole report on Google drive so I could also see the history on that document and send him screenshots of all the alterations made by me proving that I wrote ~20% of the report also.
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    He added it all up and made a special exception for my group. Saying he would give me most credit for the work. I think I ended up with a 65 and they all get 11 for the whole coursework part A. They would need 69% to even pass the module.
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    So turned out I up a bit on the code only getting about 50% of the marks with like a massive issue in it (dumb me, for anyone interested I I didn't make a MVC structure correctly) but my report sections were near perfect. Spelling mistakes (a common thing I do) and formatting etc. There were a few glaring
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    mistakes from the report that they had written but other than that not bad. When they found out their marks they started calling me up and emailing me and messaging me almost for about 3 hours, I was
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    happily out at the time and didn't have my phone with me so didn't respond. My module organiser sent an email explaining that they had lied and he had proof about it so corrected the marks according. When I got back to my phone I screenshot all the messages they had
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    send and recorded all the voicemails including the ones they had sent previously. Including multiple occasions where everyone in the group told me to " off" And I did. I sent all these voicemails and screenshots to my module organiser requesting that I
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    leave my group, and understand that it is more work for me but I'd rather not deal with that. He agreed and also escalated the messages to someone higher up. At this point I quit the group, and decided to work on part B by myself. TAKING ALL OF MY CODE WITH ME. Removing thier access to all of it. I of
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    course asked my module organiser first and they said it was fine as it was my work and if I was no longer in thier group the others couldn't submit it. I fixed the error in the code in about 2 weeks. Then did the whole report from scratch almost and added a load
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    about the fix taking me about 7 weeks. I then get messages from the group to please come back, we really need you kinda stuff on the end few days of the assignment. They even offered to pay me. I screenshot it and send it to the module organiser, just to let
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    him know what is happening and then just ignore them. I ended up submitting 2 weeks early for the deadline and got 100% on the whole section 2. Which is basically unheard at university, especially by your self for group work.
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    Later that day I get an email from a plaugurisum and collusion officer. Not someone you ever want to get an email from. Basically says I'm summoned to a hearing as an external body looked at both my group (me, myself and I) and my old groups coursework and thought it was very similar. I get the whole
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    project that my group handed in and my own back as evidence so I can look and prepare my answer to their questions. I email my module organiser ask if he supports me in this because basically they can punish all of you or 1 group (never nobody). He says yes he supports me in this. Perfect.
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    I prepare for this meeting by going though the hundreds of commits I have made while they had access to find the one that is most similar to it. I find a PERFECT match, 0 differences, not even a single character. Through the thousands of lines of code.
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    So I turn up to this meeting there is the VP of computing there (guy who could basically do whatever the | he wants to us). My old group when asked to present their answer as to why this has happened go on about how they did all of it by themselves blah blah blah. You get the point, this
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    goes on for about 10 mins. Then I am asked to present my argument. I ask if I can share my screen. VP: "yeah... Okay..." puzzled. So I share it. Show all the screenshots I took as some of the people in the meeting weren't aware that we knew eachother, including them basically begging for me to come back offering money to.
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    And as if this wasn't enough to convince them, I then showed me downloading a fresh version of what they submitted, and a fresh version of one of my commits on the github, and running it through a trusted comparison software. I narrated this to explain what I was doing just to be clear. Took a while but came up as I
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    knew it would 0 differences. Everyone was stunned. One of the group members uttered "but...". I just laughed. And was quickly asked to hang up as I was no longer involved. Turned out they had cloned one of my commits and still had a copy on their laptop when I blocked their access not been able to fix it atall so
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    just submitted it and hoped for the best. One of my friends who is friends with one from my old group asked what grade they got and they said that they failed the whole module as they got a 0 for the second section giving them just 5.5% overall for the module
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    (you need 40 to pass) and would have to retake it over the summer costing them and everyone in my old group their placement year jobs, after all who wants someone who failed a module so badly and who was intellectually dishonest working for them. This ment that they all lost out on being paid ~20k each for the years work. Which goes a long way for a uni
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    student. While I happily get mine. TL:DR Old group tried to s told me to ✓ me over and " and I did taking all of my work with me causing them to fail the class.
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