'A blank slide showed up on the screen': Student exposes their lazy group project partner in front of the entire school

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
Jan 27, 2024 9:00 AM EST

Group projects are the worst. Let's face it, no one has ever been a part of one and had a good time… except for the people who are getting a passing grade without doing any of the work. Even then, are those people really enjoying themselves? Or are they just suffering through life like the rest of us?

I've mentioned this a few times in the past, but the most brutal experience I ever had with a group project was also at the culmination of my university experience. My final project partially consisted of being partnered with another student. I got partnered with a pre-med student who was destined for medical school and decided they had better things to be spending their time on than finishing our project together—especially since I was there to do it for them. The situation was even more extreme than I'm able to describe now, but hey, they're a cardiothoracic surgeon, and I'm here writing this. So, maybe their approach to the whole thing had some merit… What's the lesson supposed to be here? The ruthless succeed?

Anyways, when this student's project partner didn't do any work, they didn't put up with it like I did and instead exposed their partner in front of the entire school. 

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    Posted by u/Draycos_Stormfang 19 hours ago My project partner didn't do anything for the project, so I made sure he was held responsible for it. I posted this as a comment on an old post on the /ProRevenge reddit, but I thought I could make it its own post, too.! I'm typing on my phone, so sorry for any mistakes in advance! When I was in 7th grade, I was at a private school, and for a project for one of my classes, I got paired up with the WORST person in my
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    class. Over the weeks of the project, the PowerPoint presentation that we had shared with each other was only touched ONCE by him, and all he did was create a new slide (left it blank). I. Was. For the first time ever, I absolutely refused to do all the work. My idiot of a partner thought I was doing all the work for him and smiled at me every time classes started, looking smug. He never even bothered to check the PowerPoint.
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    Little did he know that I had already informed our teacher, and that teacher gave me his blessings to just present my part, and I would be graded on that alone. The day to present came, and we were to present our projects to the ENTIRE SCHOOL. Before the presentations started, he came up to me and asked if he could see the PowerPoint so he could prepare to speak his park. I just glared at him so hard he visibly paled and went back to his seat, where I continued to give him the stink eye the whol
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    Luckily, I was in charge of the first half of the PowerPoint, so I started things off. I knew I hit it out of the park, based on how our teacher was nodding his head from the back of the room. At the end of my last time, I turned and looked at my partner, who had gone pale despite all of his freckles. "Alright, (insert partner name here). Ready to present your part?" I didn't bother waiting for a response and just clicked the clicker. A blank slide showed up on the screen, exactly what he had co
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    Finally, the PRINCIPAL stepped up and asked my partner what was going on. Mr. Freckles looked away and mumbled something about it being on a flash drive left upstairs in his backpack. He was allowed to leave the room to go retrieve it. I stood there, in front of the whole school, SMILING to myself, for TEN MINUTES. The idiot still hadn't returned, so my teacher suggested we move on with the presentations. A couple of teachers left to go find my partner, who was quickly found hiding in a closet i
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    I got a 98% on the project, and the idiot got a big, fat ZERO. He ended up failing the class and had to redo the year. Before I left the private school and went back to public schools for HS, he had managed to get kicked out of the school program, and I never heard from him again. Edit: To clarify, I was a 13-year-old brat with autism and a very strong malicious streak. I held grudges like, but nowadays, I'm pretty much over it the next day after someone wrongs me. This also happened back in 201
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    CoderJoe1 19 hr. ago You made your power point. Reply Share 2.0k • Draycos_Stormfang OP 19 hr. ago Omg, so TRUE! 442 Reply Share timble2000 17 hr. ago Smooth one sir ↑ 65 65 Reply Share
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    Somerset76 18 hr. ago My son did this too! He was in high school and had a terrible partner. He actually made 5 slides that started with "nick, this is your part" Ending in "Nick, you are a lazy ****. The principal laughed! 580 Reply Share 205 ●●● Draycos_Stormfang OP 17 hr. ago Omg, I should have done this instead of leaving the one blank slide he did! That's PERFECT! Reply Share
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    Silly_Dragonfly4 - 17 hr. ago My daughter is a senior in HS and just experience this. I have always worried she was a big push over but she stood up to her project partner (who is a fair weather friend) and my girl put her in her place in front of everyone after friend was bragging to others in class saying she did most of the work. Nothing better than a public shaming like this when someone does these things. Reply Share 232 Draycos_Stormfang OP 17 hr. ago ● I think a public shaming is exactly
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    Play_Tennis 16 hr. ago . Y'all had some nice teachers. Mine always told me I would need to find a way to complete the project as a team because that's how it would be in the real world when I got a job. I'd argue that they would be fired in the workplace. Little did I know, there are people who get by in the workplace the same way they got by on these projects lol. 180 Reply Share
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    wfhomealone · 15 hr. ago True story. I had a CEO say in an executive meeting, this project requires participation of all partners, do not let wfhalone do it by herself again. I said that would be great, I'll create a folder for each partner on the drive and they can drop their research and slides in them. A week before presentation those folders were empty. I did the entire presentation myself. I was laid off a year later and some of those partners are still at the company. Mediocrity rises to t
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    DULUXR1R2L1L2 · 18 hr. ago Something similar happened to me in college. Some ADULT loser pulled the same I. I didn't know him well but I had heard stories of him around with other group projects but didn't have any other options for a partner. It turns out he was actively messing with me too, like going out of his way to make it seem like he was helping but was actually sabotaging the project. We agreed to meet really early the day of the presentation to
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    finish his part, but he didn't show up or reply to any messages or calls. He purposely made things harder for me and purposely made me get up that early with no intention of actually showing up, just to be a 1. My professors were all really supportive and not at all surprised this student did this. I got a good grade and he failed the course. It was our last
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    semester of a 3 year program and he stopped showing up to all classes. In the final exam for another course the professor asked where this idiot was and remarked that he really needs to be here because of his grades. Him failing out of a program after being a student there for 3 years brought me a lot of satisfaction. 146 Reply Share Draycos_Stormfang OP- 17 hr. ago And he quothe, "What a waste of time!" 33 Reply Share
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    The_Raji 18 hr. ago This is amazing. Pretty crazy that you had to do a presentation in front of the whole school in 7th grade! I don't think I'd be able to do that. Reply Share 48 Draycos_Stormfang OP 17 hr. ago To be fair, it was a school of about 30ish students, so it wasn't any worse than presenting to a normal classroom full of kids. 49 Reply Share ●●●
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    ArreniaQ 18 hr. ago another collaborative learning FAIL. 41 Reply Share Draycos_Stormfang OP · 17 hr. ago Seeing his face when he realized I wasn't going to bail him out was worth it. I was smiling the whole dang time I was up there on the stage! 55 Reply Share
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    Stopher 16 hr. ago Group projects are annoying in general. Sometimes lazy people don't contribute. Sometimes perfections don't let you contribute. It's a nightmare. 426 Reply Share
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    Doritos-Locos-Taco 15 hr. ago Did the same in my last semester of college. Scumbags couldn't even put their NAME ON IT. That's all I asked of them at the end. Submitted the assignment without their names and let the prof know they didn't do to be them. 16 Reply Share ●●●
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    Falconflyer75 - 18 hr. ago Yeah I remember being stuck with a guy who didn't do anything on a project He later got expelled for stealing a test from a class that was considered a bird course anyways Dunno what happened to him after Reply Share 26 ●●● Draycos_Stormfang OP 17 hr. ago People like that tend to fall off your radar. Even off the face of the Earth, sometimes. 15 Reply Share
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