Unfiltered Story #343126
(I’m in the final semester of my senior year. The senior project for all business-related majors is to analyze a local company and come up with recommendations to improve processes. It’s a group project, and it’s tradition to turn it into a bit of a competition.)
Professor: This is your reminder that the financial analysis on [Company] is due NEXT week, people! Don’t procrastinate. This is not something you can do the night before and still pass, even if you are a finance major.
Me: *to group member #1* We don’t have a finance major in our group, do we?
Group member #1: Nope.
Me: Great….
(Despite being non-finance majors, my group pulls together and manages to get the section done. I walk into class on the due date, and am immediately cornered by a girl from another group.)
Classmate: [My Name]! Did you guys finish the financial analysis?
Me: Barely. It took us forever, but we got it done.
Classmate: Well, my group got stuck, and I thought that maybe you could help us?
Me: Where did you get stuck?
Classmate: On all of it…..
Me: ALL of it?!
Classmate: What formulas did you guys use? What was your conclusion?
Me: You basically want to copy our answers.
Classmate: Yes!
Me: No.
Classmate: COME ON! It’s the rough draft! Dr. [Professor] won’t even notice!
Me: No.
Classmate: We didn’t have a finance major in our group! You can’t just leave us hanging!
Me: Neither did we, and somehow we figured it out…
(Classmate mutters something in a disgruntled tone and sidles up to one of my other group members.)
Classmate: Hey! Your leader over there won’t let me see your conclusions. Can I-
Group member #2: No.
(Classmate stomps back to her seat.)
