Unqualified professor changes non-graded assignments to completion grades, so a petty student decides to share their work with the class en masse: ‘Extra graded work last minute wasn't cool’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Jan 4, 2026 12:00 PM EST

Remember the good old college days? When you weren't partying until the cows came home, you were hitting the books and listening extra closely in the lecture hall on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Do you remember that one professor who probably didn't know anything about the subject they were teaching? If so, we're sure you also remember just how frustrating it was when they also had an ego so large it could climb up a beanstalk, and because of this, you had a vendetta against them the moment you saw their syllabus.

A professor versus student story is one of the most satisfying revenge story genres because of the power dynamic. Sometimes, the odd professor feels on top of the world and therefore subjects their students to undesirable conditions because they can. Power-trips aren't uncommon in academic settings, and they usually occur as a result of realizing that they can't control all of their students. Group punishments are common in elementary school, but at a reputable university? Might as well hand the students a baby bottle and blankie, too.

In this next story, a "disorganized" and "unprofessional" professor of a keyboard class changes the previously ungraded busy work in her syllabus to completion-graded work because one of her students slacked off and tried to be a class clown. Additionally, she requires all students to print out all of their assignments. As we said, group punishments are so kindergarten. The ex-student who shares the story explains that they had already completed their work digitally and didn't want their professor to punish them for another student's behavior. So, naturally, they decide to mess up their professor's entire unfair scheme. How? By sharing their work en masse, and helping every slacker student complete their work via his. Good luck to the professor. who didn't expect hundreds of printed-out assignments from every single student. Scroll below to read the full story and get a taste of sweet, sweet academic revenge.

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  • "College teacher gave surprise extra work last minute but I helped to thwart her"

    Not the best title, sorry. Some backstory: I initially went to college overseas but became very ill & didn't finish my degree before moving back to mainland US.
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  • I dealt with health issues for years before being able to go back to a local college.
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  • My younger brother decided to go as well. I tested out of most of the classes but the shitty college didn't allow for testing out of everything and they didn't credit some of the classes I'd already taken.
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  • I was literally one class away from my degree when I became ill. They didn't have that class at the 2nd college.
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  • One of the classes they made me take was advanced keyboarding. The "teacher" for the keyboarding class didn't have the right degree to be a professor, was incredibly disorganized, and very unprofessional.
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  • She never actually taught anything. She dished out assignments and paid a student to grade stuff.
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  • She wasn't very good at typing and her e-mails to us were full of grammatical and spelling errors.
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  • The classes were supposed to be online but she couldn't figure out how to make the online stuff work and thus we had to go in person.
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  • In addition to the assignments in the syllabus she gave some non-graded practice work where we had to type what we read word for word and then the program would grade us on how fast and accurately we typed.
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  • I completed all of the practice work as well as the assignments rather quickly, but she still required attendance for tests and other B
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  • My brother apparently didn't want to do the practice work as he considered it a waste of his time.
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  • Instead he typed stuff like "Bob Sagat could kick your ass" and random stuff because he didn't expect the teacher to ever read them as the computer program did that.
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  • As the end of the semester approached with only a few days left, she apparently decided to check the busy work stuff and it pissed her off.
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  • She sent out an irate poorly spelled e-mail to the students complaining about how "unprofessional" it was for students to have typed offensive things in the practice work or to have typed gibberish instead of actually taking the time to do the supposedly non- graded work.
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  • She announced that the work was going to be graded now and that we had 2 days to print out the work and submit it to her or we would all fail her class.
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  • I had already finished all of my work for the semester and had no reason to go back in.
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  • I was annoyed enough that I had to go there in the first place when I'd signed up for online courses specifically so I wouldn't have to deal with driving over shitty unpaved roads to get into town.
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  • The fact that I had already done the work and was being threatened with a failing grade if I didn't go in and print the stuff that could only be printed at the college and when the printer was free really pissed me off.
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  • I spent hours having to go through and print, wait for other people's print jobs, wait for paper refills-- which could not be done by students because the paper wasn't where we could access it and the "teacher" had to go get more.
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  • It took multiple refills of paper to get it all done. I did express to her that I was irritated that I had to print stuff out on such short notice when she could see that I'd done the work and I hate group punishments and viewed this as punishment.
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  • I didn't appreciate being treated like a child. I had other classes on other days that I still had to go to that used the same room and computers.
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  • A bunch of the students were panicking because they didn't feel they had time to type up all of the extra assignments.
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  • Some of them had jobs to go to or had to get home to their kids.
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  • My brother was annoyed because he hadn't done the work and felt it wasn't fair for her to spring stuff on us that wasn't on the syllabus and that wasn't supposed to be graded.
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  • He also thought it was B that I had to waste my time printing my stuff out when she knew I'd done the work.
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  • He's not a fan of group punishments either. Cue my petty revenge. I decided to let him in on something I noticed when accessing my assignments to work on them.
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  • There was zero security on the systems. There were no passwords to stop any rando at one of the computer stations from accessing the assignment folders of all of the students.
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  • Not only could you view them, you could edit them. A particularly malicious person could have deleted a rival's work.
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  • One could also copy another person's work and paste it into their folder or another person's folder.
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  • While the teacher was out of the room for an extended period- which was something she did frequently- I demonstrated to my brother how to access my folder and assignments and how to then get back to his stuff.
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  • I didn't actually do anything, just showed him it could be done. I went to grab a grilled chicken sandwich from the Sonic next door while he took it upon himself to copy the text from each of my completed practice assignments and pasted it into his own folder.
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  • Then to be extra petty he checked the folders of each of the other students and pasted my work in to the assignments for every student who hadn't completed it already.
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  • Apparently other students were absolutely freaking out and he told them "Just go to your assignments and hit print" and they said "But I didn't do them!" and he told them "Trust me, just print them and submit them." So they did.
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  • I was in the classroom the next day when I heard the teacher having an absolute meltdown about how these lazy students who hadn't done the work suddenly had everything done and printed.
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  • She couldn't figure out how they did it. It's not like she was actually going to even read the stuff, she just wanted to see that it was done.
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  • Wasted a ton of ink and paper. I know it wasn't exactly ethical, but adding extra graded work last minute wasn't cool.
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  • TL: DR? College teacher punished entire class by making non-graded practice work part of the grade & required it to be printed out because a few of the students didn't do the work & she was pissed so I showed my brother that it was possible to copy my work to his folder & he did it for the rest of the students so everyone had the work done to be printed.
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