Unfiltered Story #341944

I have always had bad luck with group projects because I get stuck with the worst groups. During my junior year of college, one of my classes called for a group project that would take up most of the semester and was designed to be practice for the capstone classes we take at the end of senior year. The assignment is to take a Fortune 500 company and find a way to improve it. We divide the work up and go our separate ways.
I’m in the middle of doing my part when the group leader texts me and says that they’ve decided to go in a different direction, and I need to research something else instead. I say okay and start doing that. The group leader does this to me two more times that night! I text another group member and ask him what we’re doing exactly. He tells me a completely different answer. By this point, it’s after three, and we have a meeting at seven am with the professor. I give up for the night and go to bed.
The next morning, I go to the meeting. I’m about five minutes late, but I’m not the last one to arrive. Still, our professor is there and she tears into me about being late. My group then proceeds to say that none of them can do their parts because I haven’t done my part yet. I try to defend myself, but the professor doesn’t believe me and takes their side. She gives me until four that afternoon to finish it, and I have to have a private meeting with her the next afternoon.
I manage to get the right info out of my group and finish my part before the deadline. But at the meeting with my professor, she had me wait almost half an hour after it was supposed to start because she was chatting with the group leader!
But after that, they gave me almost nothing to do. The only reason I passed that class was because I had the best idea in the group on how to improve our company, and they were forced to use it.