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Am I the Jerk?

I Did All the Work… Then Faked a “Flat Tire” and Let Them Present Alone

Am I the Jerk?

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Society & Culture, Relationships

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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0:00.0

I did all the work and then faked a flat tire and let them present alone.

0:06.9

I'm in a class where a group research project slash presentation is a huge chunk of overall points.

0:13.0

Everyone knows in group projects you always have that one slacker who doesn't do anything that you

0:17.6

have to compensate for. However, I got stuck with possibly the three worst

0:22.0

people to be in a project with in the class. I did the entire research, presentation,

0:27.7

poster boards, among many other annoying things myself. I tried talking to them and telling them

0:33.0

they needed to put in their share of the effort. I was ignored. I'd send them tasks to do, ignored.

0:39.3

I'd try to schedule meetings, they'd say they were coming and then leave me alone at the library.

0:43.3

This happened from the get-go.

0:45.3

It was abundantly clear that they expected everyone else to do the work, but everyone else turned out to be just me.

0:52.3

As a rule, we couldn't have things 100% memorized word for word, and we couldn't read off

0:57.2

anything.

0:58.1

We actually had to know the subject.

1:00.0

I was fully prepared to do most of the talking, and even wrote down a small script for them,

1:04.7

and told them to know what to say during their part at the very least.

1:08.3

The night before, I told them we had to meet to at least go over the whole

1:11.4

thing one time. Once again, none of them showed. The professor had stated at the beginning

1:17.0

that we were not allowed to contact him about people slacking off in the group, and said to work it

1:21.9

out amongst ourselves, said that we were adults and that he wouldn't even respond to emails

1:26.6

about it. At this point, I'm livid and decide they can just do it themselves, which means they'd get

1:32.0

up there and not know a damn thing to say other than the small info I gave them, and couldn't

1:36.6

even bull crap anything because they did no research.

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