I was in my final year of university and I had finished all of my courseworks except for one group module worth 20% of my module.
I'd done 80% of the work in our group but that didn't bother me because I knew it would only be a C/B grade piece if I had to rely on the rest of the group.
There was one guy in the group who I didn't get on with called Khalid because he was a complete arsehole, lazy as they come and I know for a fact that he used to beat up his girlfriend, I know this as I once saw him do it first hand and knocked him out to stop him beating her and then called the cops on him but they didn't do anything. He was very wealthy so usual money talked in his world/ he had connections.
So with a week before the submission deadline the work was 99.9% complete, it really on needed a few sources written down in the proper manner and that was it.
I would have done this but my best friend died (drunk driver ran him over and sped off) that same week, so I had flown back home last minute and left instructions to the group of what needed to be done and to submit it on the website.
When I got back to campus, after the funeral, I checked to make sure the work was submitted. Yes the work had been submitted but my name was no longer on the coursework!
Obviously I was furious and it transpires that Khalid had taken my name off of the work (I could see his name on the submitted by details). So I called him up and he just laughed at me.
I then marched straight to my professor and she said there was nothing she could do as she had received an e-mail with everyone's e signature saying that I hadn't contributed at all to the work.
I had to dig deeper and it then transpired that Khalid had paid each person in the group $5000 to say that I hadn't contributed at all, knowing that I'd get 0% for my coursework and my overall grade would take a massive hit.
Honestly I'd never been soo angry in my life.
I then booked an appointment with the Dean and honestly I just broke down in front of her, I was already in a bad place because of the sudden death of my best friend and now this work betrayal just set me off.
In the end the Dean said that she couldn't give me any points for my coursework but that I could do an essay to make up for the 20%; so I did and I aced it.
I then went into the group sharepoint (I still had access) and deleted all of the presentation work that they still had to give (I was exempt from it as I was doing the essay instead). They then got only 12/100 for what they delivered, honestly it was a complete shambles and then it became very apparent to my professor that I had indeed done all of the work.
I would say fuck you Khalid, hope your life sucks but I know he got a great political job right out of uni (daddy's contacts). Still at least everyone else from my course knows what an arsehole he is.