I paid someone in Pakistan $60 to do my accounting assingment assingment and I think my instructor knows what's up

Sounds like he is comparing your work from a previous assignment, which must look quite different.

And it also seems like he is his willing to let this slide, with out even really calling you out for it. You should redo the assignment your self asap, and hand it in with an apologetic note (something like "sorry, in hindsight that wasn't up to my standards. I read the chapter again and redid it all from scratch. thanks for the extra chance")

Exactly. He knows you cheated and is giving you a chance to redeem yourself.

If he asks you to explain why you did x a certain way and you can't, you're gonna be screwed. Better figure it out fast.

all he did was go in and look to see who authored the spreadsheet. It' wasn't rocket science for him. EVERY Word, Power Point and Excel spreadsheet has that elementary information readily available to anyone who knows how to retrieve it.

go figure wrote:

all he did was go in and look to see who authored the spreadsheet. It' wasn't rocket science for him. EVERY Word, Power Point and Excel spreadsheet has that elementary information readily available to anyone who knows how to retrieve it.

How do I see that information.

Right click and document properties. Please tell us you at least cut and paste it from the .xls file the other person worked on into a new one with your information.

I created the spreadsheet and sent it to him, he modified it and sent it back, then I modified it slightly and saved it again. So it has only my information in the properties thing as far as I can tell.

go figure wrote:

all he did was go in and look to see who authored the spreadsheet. It' wasn't rocket science for him. EVERY Word, Power Point and Excel spreadsheet has that elementary information readily available to anyone who knows how to retrieve it.

You obviously are not an excel wiz...It's not rocket science to move something to a spreadsheet that doesn't say someone else wrote it.

Actually, the smoking gun was at the end of the paper, "Praise be to Allah."

Well, I re-downloaded the excel file my Pakistani friend sent me, and indeed it does say "last saved by Irfanulla Jan." So he must know I cheated. I am really, really, f***ing embarrassed now. The thing is, I actually did a large portion of the assignemnt myself, and now when I re-do it, it's going to have a large portion of the same info and he's going to think it's copied. F*ck.

dude in the funny keffiyeh wrote:

Actually, the smoking gun was at the end of the paper, "Praise be to Allah."

It also said, "Death to America"

what should i do wrote:

Well, I re-downloaded the excel file my Pakistani friend sent me, and indeed it does say "last saved by Irfanulla Jan." So he must know I cheated. I am really, really, f***ing embarrassed now. The thing is, I actually did a large portion of the assignemnt myself, and now when I re-do it, it's going to have a large portion of the same info and he's going to think it's copied. F*ck.

And this is why we don't cheat!!! (insert tearing off of arm here.) If the high school kid who was thinking about paying someone online to write his papers is reading, learn from this guy's mistakes. Just man up and do your own damn work! Not a difficult concept.

8/10 so far

Just because it says "last saved by Irfanulla Jan" makes no implication that you cheated or didn't do any of the work. Maybe you sent it to a friend to edit it? Maybe you sent it to your Dad who's in accounting and he changed something in it. There's no rule against getting help from a peer or friend. The prof has no way of knowing you cheated. Do what you have to do but when you go in to talk with the guy be confident and don't relent. He has no proof that you directly "cheated" on the assignment.

Ralphy wrote:

Just because it says "last saved by Irfanulla Jan" makes no implication that you cheated or didn't do any of the work. Maybe you sent it to a friend to edit it? Maybe you sent it to your Dad who's in accounting and he changed something in it. There's no rule against getting help from a peer or friend. The prof has no way of knowing you cheated. Do what you have to do but when you go in to talk with the guy be confident and don't relent. He has no proof that you directly "cheated" on the assignment.

This right here is what makes America great--a total lack of humility and deception in the face of kindness.

You were given a second change. You and your prof know it. When you go back in show him you learned something. Don't be a dick.

He posts on Let'srun so you are screwed.

Ralphy wrote:

Just because it says "last saved by Irfanulla Jan" makes no implication that you cheated or didn't do any of the work. Maybe you sent it to a friend to edit it? Maybe you sent it to your Dad who's in accounting and he changed something in it. There's no rule against getting help from a peer or friend. The prof has no way of knowing you cheated. Do what you have to do but when you go in to talk with the guy be confident and don't relent. He has no proof that you directly "cheated" on the assignment.

Don't even consider doing this. As others pointed out, your instructor caught you cheating and is giving you a second chance. He saw that this was different from your previous work, saw some non-American phrasing, and then checked the properties to find out that it was last saved by someone else... someone else with a non-American name. It's not rocket science to figure out that this is not your work.

If you did something like this in the real world after school, you'd probably be fired. But let's assume that your supervisor decides to give you a second chance, as your instructor has done.

In the real world, if your supervisor gave you a second chance like this and you continued to lie about it, you'd definitely be fired. Fired. As in no job. All your instructor has to do is call you in and ask, "How did you do this? How did you do this?" and so on until he finds something you can't explain. Most likely, he'll find lots of things you can't explain since by your own admission, you aren't too knowledgeable about excel. I don't know what the punishment is at your school for blatant cheating, but you'd probably get it.

This has been one of life's learning experiences. Start over. Do it from scratch. Don't lie when you resubmit it. Oh, and grow up.

bump. This is interesting and I want to see how this all plays out.