So here's the story, at the beginning of this semester my group of friends got ready to be a team once again....Until it turned out that one of them had to leave school for a while, leaving us with less members than the minimum required for the big final project. Both me and my other friends were separated and reinstated in different teams
I was now in a 5 man team...That sadly ended being a two man team. For six months I had to deal with the other members not showing up for meetings, doing their report work hours before the deadline (and doing an awful job at it)or simply not even bothering to do any of their assigned work. The other member and I reached the point where we worked fully knowing that there was not going to be anything done by these people, and if it was, it would need to be heavily rewritten (As they liked to simply copy and paste stuff from old reports from older students).
The straw that broke the glass was the final project, where we were expected to do several lab tests using an industrial dryer. They showed up to the lab to do nothing but fiddle their phones or literally just watching shit dry when we were done preparing the samples. There was one time where I was running late and asked the teammate assigned to me to please start up the machine as to not lose much time. When I arrived, the lab was closed shut and the dryer was untouched in its protective wrap...As it turns out my teammate decided to just go have breakfast since I was running late. When I confronted her about it, she replies with "You should've known I have no idea how to even use this thing lol"
Then we had to present our results, during that night (We had to rush it the night before as we had lots of tests) the good teammate and I prepared a full analysis of all 16 samples, made a graph detailing their behavior, made a statistical analysis to determine the influence of variables on the dryer, determined the overall cost of producing dry samples, made several recommendations to improve our project idea and finally wrote down our conclusions. They on the other hand had 1 job. To determine a percentage based on a lab test they had to do. That was it.
They didn't do jackshit, and then just made up the value, I strongly refused to go forward with that, but all my other teammates said it wasn't that important since the bulk of the investigation was legit. I refused harder, got laughed at for being "Too moral" and they presented this made-up value. Just to cover my ass, I saved some screenshots of all the times I refused to do use that and all the times I offered alternatives that were ignored.
I presented our results in front of the teacher and refused to say anything about that part, even though it was added by them to the presentation. In the end, I managed to do very well and we got a good score, but before the scoring is complete, all members could grade each other.
I obviously gave them a failing score. While giving the other teammate a great score.
Yesterday the final results came in and we all passed, except one of the people I gave a failing score to, turns out they did awful in the final test and my failing score was the coup the grace. I receive a text calling me a piece of shit, I ignore it.
Then I receive another flurry of texts from one of the other teammates, saying that I should take responsibility for what I did, so he says that he will go straight to the teacher and confess about making up a value, so that the entire project is flagged as illegitimate and we all fail (at best, as their idiocy could even be cause for suspension).This idiot says he is willing to do it for the other girl and because he's "So pissed off at me"
After talking around for a bit, I learned that he was harassing the other members until they showed a screenshot of them giving a passing grade, and that's how they came to me.
Initially I called their bluff and ignored it, but there's 2 problems.
1) My phone was stolen recently, so I just lost my leverage screenshots
2) My phone backup did not go far enough to retrieve them
And now my anxiety is kicking in at full blast, what if this idiot actually does go scorched earth?
What can I do now? I'm feeling extremely scared even though I did nothing wrong...I have no way to prove it.
I was now in a 5 man team...That sadly ended being a two man team. For six months I had to deal with the other members not showing up for meetings, doing their report work hours before the deadline (and doing an awful job at it)or simply not even bothering to do any of their assigned work. The other member and I reached the point where we worked fully knowing that there was not going to be anything done by these people, and if it was, it would need to be heavily rewritten (As they liked to simply copy and paste stuff from old reports from older students).
The straw that broke the glass was the final project, where we were expected to do several lab tests using an industrial dryer. They showed up to the lab to do nothing but fiddle their phones or literally just watching shit dry when we were done preparing the samples. There was one time where I was running late and asked the teammate assigned to me to please start up the machine as to not lose much time. When I arrived, the lab was closed shut and the dryer was untouched in its protective wrap...As it turns out my teammate decided to just go have breakfast since I was running late. When I confronted her about it, she replies with "You should've known I have no idea how to even use this thing lol"
Then we had to present our results, during that night (We had to rush it the night before as we had lots of tests) the good teammate and I prepared a full analysis of all 16 samples, made a graph detailing their behavior, made a statistical analysis to determine the influence of variables on the dryer, determined the overall cost of producing dry samples, made several recommendations to improve our project idea and finally wrote down our conclusions. They on the other hand had 1 job. To determine a percentage based on a lab test they had to do. That was it.
They didn't do jackshit, and then just made up the value, I strongly refused to go forward with that, but all my other teammates said it wasn't that important since the bulk of the investigation was legit. I refused harder, got laughed at for being "Too moral" and they presented this made-up value. Just to cover my ass, I saved some screenshots of all the times I refused to do use that and all the times I offered alternatives that were ignored.
I presented our results in front of the teacher and refused to say anything about that part, even though it was added by them to the presentation. In the end, I managed to do very well and we got a good score, but before the scoring is complete, all members could grade each other.
I obviously gave them a failing score. While giving the other teammate a great score.
Yesterday the final results came in and we all passed, except one of the people I gave a failing score to, turns out they did awful in the final test and my failing score was the coup the grace. I receive a text calling me a piece of shit, I ignore it.
Then I receive another flurry of texts from one of the other teammates, saying that I should take responsibility for what I did, so he says that he will go straight to the teacher and confess about making up a value, so that the entire project is flagged as illegitimate and we all fail (at best, as their idiocy could even be cause for suspension).This idiot says he is willing to do it for the other girl and because he's "So pissed off at me"
After talking around for a bit, I learned that he was harassing the other members until they showed a screenshot of them giving a passing grade, and that's how they came to me.
Initially I called their bluff and ignored it, but there's 2 problems.
1) My phone was stolen recently, so I just lost my leverage screenshots
2) My phone backup did not go far enough to retrieve them
And now my anxiety is kicking in at full blast, what if this idiot actually does go scorched earth?
What can I do now? I'm feeling extremely scared even though I did nothing wrong...I have no way to prove it.
