If there is anyone who works in HR on here who can give some advice, that would be an added bonus! Ok i work part time so I can care for my son, I've done this for over a year now. The arrangement has never really worked out, I.e. I still do a full time role in my part time hours. I'm too afraid to tell my boss this as it was on a trial basis for 6 months initially and I wanted her to think we could all cope with me doing part time hours. it's been signed off permanently now but I just never mention how tricky it can be at times. I never have a lunch break, i work at lightening speed nearly all of the time, I never finish work on time, I am constantly signing onto my emails on my days off to see if I've done everything and double check my work etc. I don't seem to have any work life balance as I can't leave work at work, hence this thread right now.
In the past 6 weeks I've made 2 biggish errors. One was a case of me not pressing send on an email, a part of our Company didn't get notified about something important and nobody was any the wiser so it went unnoticed for 8 months in total. It had quite a big impact on our department, I can't go into the details. There have been problems like this before with other staff members making errors on the exact same thing, but it genuinely seemed like this error was the biggest in history. I owned up to my error straight away, I also tried to make suggestions to the process which seemed flawed and others I work with totally agree with me, and the response from my manager was 'rather than focus on how the system failed, you need to focus on my error and take responsibility for it'. It pissed me off as that's exactly what I did, i did hold my hands up, I did take responsibility, I was just trying to make sure it didn't happen again, to any of us.
Yesterday I came back to work to a right cock up. I sent an email to the wrong John Smith. I sent an email to 2 people and wanted to copy in John Smith. Our company is divided into 3 parts, each pat has a different name. Before I sent the email to these 3 people, I checked the company intranet for their email addresses, all of these people work together on the same project day to day, same office in fact, so naturally I believed they also worked for the same section of the company. My manager initially asked me to send the email and she never mentioned anything about John Smith working for a different part of the company to the others. I found the first two email addresses under the correct part of the company and did a search for John Smith and without a thought got the address of the John Smith who works for the same part that the other two do. Absolutely typical that this John Smith was not the right person and he received some quite confidential information, figures relating to someone etc. He called and complained to my manager about it as he thought it was a terrible thing to do, I obviously didn't do it on purpose, I was none the wiser that the person I needed worked in a totally different part to the others, yet on the same project!!!
Manager had me in a meeting about it, sat there with her eyebrows on top of her head whilst I explained why the error occurred and then said, 'it's called attention to detail, so what are you going to do to put it right?' I said what can I do now? We chatted, I explained again how the error happened. She said I should have read through the email trail, and looked at the people's signature strips to see which part of the group they work for. I read through every email in any chain I am copied into, but I never go through checking people's signature strips for their name, job title and work location, there's no need for me to do that! Why would you? I will going forward to avoid this, but normally why would you?
Now she's onto the fact I am struggling with the part time hours she said she's noticed I rush a lot and try and pass things to other people, which is really unfair as I don't do that, she said she will monitor it etc. she told me to pay attention to detail as my latest mistakes are catastrophic, which made me feel even worse. To make matters more intense, I have just announced I am 19 weeks pregnant. I feel the stress of everything is getting too much. Can I get sacked for this? I've been there 7 years.
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Deedee3311 · 30/03/2017 19:49
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