And that's the thanks I gotOn getting screwed over by people for whom you were doing a favour:
I spent several weeks helping my best friend - a complete layabout - with his A-Level computer science project so he wouldn't fail his course. In the end, he did so little work I actually ended up doing the whole thing for him in a half-term week I should really have spent revising for my own exams.
I got back to college to find that while I was hunched over a red-hot BBC Micro, he had spent the week screwing my girlfriend.
Then he didn't bother sitting the exam because "I'm going to fail anyway".
And that's the thanks I got. How have you been screwed over whilst doing someone a favour?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 24 May 2007, 10:20)
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About a month ago......I had some coursework to hand in at uni. As a group we had to make a MIDI sequence and present it to a group of tutors.
My mate Milner felt a bit less emo one day, felt a bit love-struck and chose the song "Every Breathe You Take" by The Police as our song to work around.
Everything went well. A great drum-track and some lovely synth sections and it was sounding pretty good. Milner one day decided to be a bit charitable and let a kid join our group who had been begging for a group by email without telling me! I let him off...
Weeks pass and we are tweaking the composition to perfection, emailing this new guy to get him to come help or at least watch. He never does. We figure that he's changed his mind. The deadline looms and we've all but forgotten about him.
On the day of the presentation, we turn up an hour early as specified to setup the sequence in one of the rooms. This guy seems to be hanging around the rooms a bit. As we were called up to present, this guy literally follows us in front of the tutors. We confirm our names, and he confirms his!
The presentation goes okay (apart from me insulting one of the tutors by accident!), and this guy just stands there while we answer questions as best as we can.
When it's finally over, this unknown person says to us "Thanks for that, let me know if you need someone for the next coursework" and disappears out of the door never to be seen again.
Months pass, results come in. 68% (pretty good). Haven't heard from the guy since!
I said i'd never let random people join my group EVER again, but for the same has just happened with the new coursework! I have intentionally gone hunting for this guy, and he seems okay and sounds like he knows his stuff, fortunately!
GRRRR!!
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