In a commerce group project, I had to submit my part of the video assignment for another team member to edit. I messaged saying “hi guys sorry i'm in perth so you know the video quality isn’t the best but it’s done!” and one of the guys in the group replies “did you want me to put a filter on your face?” and everyone in my group started LIKING THE MESSAGE. as i was fresh out of highschool, i just said “no thankyou!” and ignored them till the group presentation. Where the same guy rocked up to present in Crocs. The dress code was business-casual. Free me!

In a PSYC group project, there was a girl in my group who just disliked me for no clear reason since day 1. I tried to be cordial, but in every meeting, she just tried to subtly exclude me from the task. They wouldn't let me speak, always cutting me off, and were passive-aggressive. Worse still, she was nice to my other group members, so others didn’t really notice what she did. Plus, she always wanted to take control of the group. It was pretty bad to the point where I reported it to my tutor, but my tutor said she can't do anything about it

Classmate joined late, tried to remove me because he was ”smarter”, only input was a full stop.

Our team member told us his leg was broken (for a month) the day of our presentation.

Our group mate did not collaborate with us and instead made a separate presentation.

Last term - a term I can only refer to as the term from hell, as I was working full-time and studying full-time - I had a group project so bad that the teacher apologised to me. 

The first problem was that the groups were randomly assigned. I tracked down their emails, created a group chat, delegated roles, and asked them to share. I spent Wednesday after work writing my portion and begging them to add their work. However, I received no response until 4 pm, just an hour before presenting. I looked over their work. It was almost 100% AI (!!) and didn’t fit the course content. I got them to meet at 4:30 pm and tried to explain how to fix their work, in which I quickly realised both of them spoke extremely limited English - so for the next half an hour, I tried to fix up their work, but there wasn’t enough time for me to write 30 minutes of content. 

After the presentation, the teacher - a lovely, lovely tutor - felt so bad considering the disparity between my work and theirs that she allowed me to fix up the PowerPoint at least to submit the next day. Unfortunately, I got home from uni at 9 pm, and was working from 5 am to 5 pm the next day. I spent the day using any spare moment when my manager wasn’t looking, half-frantic, texting the chat, trying to get them to fix the PowerPoint. 

I so clearly remember being on my half-hour lunch break, a tub of yogurt in one hand, my laptop balanced on my knee, sitting on some random bench and desperately trying to explain the course content, trying to explain how to use PowerPoint, trying to explain how to write a TEEL paragraph, trying to explain that they had to write their own work because I could clearly see they were using AI and we could get in serious trouble. I ended up staying up until 10 pm fixing the whole thing. Fortunately, we managed to pull ourselves out of a failure, but the term from hell felt like a taste of eternal torment.

Didn't do any of the work and then told the course convenor that we were bullying her.

Fought for marks cause my group member didn't submit our assignment, which I did ALONE.