I've made a huge cock up

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Today (on my day off!) I've realised and probably exacerbated a monumental mistake I've made at work. I can't tell you what it is due to safeguarding (don't worry noones in danger!) which is really frustrating and sounds like am attention seeking post as I'd love to wail and share the load!!! I'm so stressed about it I just nearly threw up in Asda! Waiting for someone from work to call me and let me off the hook

So to make me feel better tell me ridiculous/alarming/cringed mistakes you've made that still make your tummy feel weird ages afterwards but all turned out fine even though you did something wrong!! Some amusing ones would really help!!

Actually would that even happen?? Can I ever look back on this, roll my eyes and give an ironic chuckle??
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I once worked for a mail order house and was preparing a mailing list for 30K letters to our mailing list. I was intending to sort them into postcode order for mailsort but somehow managed just to sort the post code column thus separating the post codes from their correct address.

Fortunately I did a final 11th hour spot check on one of the dummy addresses we incorporated and discovered my error. I still feel queasy when I think of what might have happened.

Friend was telling me recently about his company's involvement in building a large roundabout on a busy batch of roads. Apparently they only realised a couple of days before the official opening that someone had misread the plans and it had been laid out incorrectly. It was perfectly usable, but the layout was such that the area has subsequently become quite notorious for traffic jams. The person responsible is now quite proprietorial about it, and when he hears about problems in that area in traffic reports he takes a perverse pride in boasting that he caused them.

In my youth I made a massive error to a benefits claim which resulted in the whole of the City Council having re training. ( so actually no bad thing).
A few years later there have been others. It's just life. Learn, grow read.ise it won't matter in 10 years to anyone and move on.
Obviously if it does affect anyone 10 years later it is really bad and you need to sort it.

Years ago I worked in travel, and was under a LOT of pressure - busy every second, phones never stopped ringing, and always tons of tickets to write, and admin to do. Got a call from a very nice man, to inform me he'd surprised his girlfriend with the plane tickets he'd bought from me, but she'd then gone ballistic, as one was in his name ...and the other wasn't in hers.

I'd got mixed up somehow and copied the second ticket from a completely different booking. He'd had to convince her he wasn't having an affair; and I'd completely ruined his romantic break surprise . I offered to speak to her, but he said it wasn't necessary, and thankfully he didn't go over my head to complain. I swear my blood actually turned to ice - my stomach's actually churning just thinking about it twenty years later!