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Raaaarrrrrr I’ve messed up at work, come and tell me your minor shit moments today.

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AlohaMolly · 18/02/2021 19:28

Just that really. In the grand scheme of things it’s not a big fuck up but I’m part furloughed, small company, boss having a rough time. I was asked to deal with something, dealt with half and passed the other half with queries on in an email to my boss and didn’t bother chasing it up. Boss has messaged asking why I haven’t dealt with it, I said I passed it on to you and he’s said he’s now dealing... but really it is my fault.

I even turned notifications off for WhatsApp so I didn’t have to face it but then I remembered I’m 33 so just apologised. I feel a bit hot and sweaty and have that horrible slightly sick feeling. Am now knee jerk reaction searching for new jobs!

DISCLAIMER: first world problems, lucky to have a job, lucky to be on part time furlough, yes there are worse things going on.

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ChickenSoupForTheHmm · 18/02/2021 19:32

Oh that’s nothing op it will be fine.
A friend had huge fuck up of epic proportions a few years ago data breach forgotten very quickly 😅
A girl I worked with in uni setting accidentally uploaded the exam questions onto the student section of the intranet instead of staff section! Mass panic!

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AlohaMolly · 18/02/2021 19:35

Uploaded the exam questions GrinGrin I’d have to quit!!

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Snowymcsnowsony · 18/02/2021 19:36

Trying to tidy up for a bloody workman who is 3rd day a no show I half threw Hetty into the downstairs loo room incase ddog ate it (should BTBNB) turn up and she got locked away.. Smashed a new stone pot I loved!!
*Bob The Builder Not Building
Angry

Blancsav · 18/02/2021 19:38

There's a lot to be said for owning it and apologising, that sick feeling is horrible but it will pass. I'm spinning plates at work at the minute, few inevitable niggles... Which lead me into remembering Every. Single. Mistake I've made at work in the last 20 years. Hopefully my gin and tonic will take my mind off it, but right now want to run away from it all

SpudsandGravy · 18/02/2021 19:46

I'm sure it'll be fine, OP!

I've done some pretty stupid things over the last few months. Twice I've copied the wrong person into a sensitive email (Outlook picked up more than one person with the same surname when I began to type it in, and I didn't notice), and only this week I replied to somebody via something in my outbox, only to discover afterwards that the cursor had not been at the top of the list and so I'd actually added my reply to a completely unrelated and confidential email. Aagghh... Reading this back I sound like a careless idiot! Really I'm not... we all do daft things Thanks

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AlohaMolly · 18/02/2021 19:47

Yeeeees to remembering every little mistake and wanting to run away.

I was with this boss while a student then quit to go be a teacher but helped out in summer holidays etc. Quit my lovely teaching job after having DS and then went back to work PT for my boss again when DS was 2 and it was only ever meant to be a stop gap but I’m still there nearly 3 years on! I loved it pre covid but now I’m wondering if we’ve had our time together and I should move on...

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AlohaMolly · 18/02/2021 19:49

@SpudsandGravy ohhh the falling-through-the-floor feeling that comes with email mistakes SadSad all this technology and no way to unsend emails still!

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Grumpycatsmum · 18/02/2021 19:51

In first job (aged 17) effectively tipped off a suspected drug runner he was being watched. Not sure I've ever beaten that.

2ndAugust · 18/02/2021 20:02

There must be something in the air this week, caused a data breach myself this week, and another couple of small fuck ups, it’s made me really anxious and start looking for a new job. However I have also picked up on colleagues errors, so it seems we are not alone in our crappiness and should not feel bad about it.

floorplanner · 18/02/2021 20:07

Oh work fuck ups are the worst, sorry you're going through it op - I go through phases of making constant runs of them sometimes. Really bothers me and I always wonder does everyone screw up or are some people just much more capable...

DoctorHildegardLanstrom · 18/02/2021 20:08

I set fire to the pub I worked in.

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AlohaMolly · 18/02/2021 20:08

My boss has just made me feel worse by saying it’s fine and it’s his fAult for not reading the email!

I think the whole country (world?) is suffering from like delayed anxiety or something.

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AlohaMolly · 18/02/2021 20:09

@DoctorHildegardLanstrom

I set fire to the pub I worked in.
You win the thread.

Did you stay??

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MrsS92 · 18/02/2021 20:16

I forgot to turn off the tap I was using to fill up a mop bucket, got called through to deal with an incident and rushed off to sort it. Wasn’t until the manager came up to discover where the water was coming from I realised.
In my defence I had been signed off work and was on very strong painkillers but they were that short staffed I had to go into work.
I’m even more scatterbrained now I’ve had children, seem to make silly mistakes all the time.

ButterflyBitch · 18/02/2021 20:19

Very minor but a million years ago was admin/sales in an office and transferred a customer to my manager. He was always so rude, no pleasantries. Just barked the managers name and you had to transfer him. I put him on hold and said that he was on the line and how rude he was. After the call my manager informed me that he’d somehow heard my rant Blush
I also managed to lose £500 odd quid when I’d just been employed to work in shop. In my defence it was my first job after an abusive relationship and I was on anti depressants and very fuzzy headed. I thought I’d put the money (which you put in a pod and then slotted into the pod shaped hole) in the safe but I don’t think it went in properly and fell on the floor, (didn’t realise this at the time). When the till was discovered to be down, they searched but the money had gone missing. The manager suspected the assistant manager had stolen it but because I’d only been there a short time I got fired. So I made a mistake but at least I’m not a thieving git, even if I couldn’t prove it.

ButterflyBitch · 18/02/2021 20:21

@AlohaMolly

My boss has just made me feel worse by saying it’s fine and it’s his fAult for not reading the email!

I think the whole country (world?) is suffering from like delayed anxiety or something.

I was asking a friend about my sons scouts zoom call today. Wondering why I hadn’t heard anything. She said it’s probably because it’s half term and then we agreed that the pandemic has everyone so stressed out that our brains have fallen out.
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AlohaMolly · 18/02/2021 20:27

Yes my brain has fallen out.

My concentration never went back to normal after DS and now it feels even worse, like all my thoughts are bits of paper and the wind keeps tossing them around.

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ButterflyBitch · 18/02/2021 20:29

Unmumsnetty hugs. I can’t keep track of things at all at the mo. I’m writing everything down and still forgetting stuff. Be kind to yourself. And if you can’t be kind then at least remember that we are all going through the same ‘brain falling out’ syndrome Grin

DoctorHildegardLanstrom · 18/02/2021 20:30

@AlohaMolly

Yep, got a reccommendation to work in the nightclub next door, just not in the kitchen though.

JoBrodie · 18/02/2021 20:35

Once when working in a small shop I took the day's takings home (about £350 or so in cash (plus cheques and those paper visa debit things* you used to get in shops in the 1990s). Had no idea I'd done it so was genuinely baffled when my boss rang me later to ask if I knew where it was.

Later I checked my bag and had to sheepishly ring my boss back to explain the error. It was all fine, I'd worked there a while and returned it the next day, to some mild teasing.

Jo

LozzaCwithadegree · 18/02/2021 20:37

you can recall / replace emails! Just as long as the receiver hasn’t read them Wink here’s how

Rach247 · 18/02/2021 20:38

I forwarded an email to somebody important which included a huge chain of emails between me and my boss discussing how much he didn’t want to have a meeting with them (in very creative and descriptive terms). As soon as I pressed send I realised, and had to walk out of the office I was in such a state. I waited for weeks for them to make a formal complaint, but nothing ever came of it. Still feel sick thinking about it ten years later.

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AlohaMolly · 18/02/2021 20:40

@LozzaCwithadegree

you can recall / replace emails! Just as long as the receiver hasn’t read them Wink here’s how
GAME CHANGER
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Rach247 · 18/02/2021 20:40

And recalling emails never works because the first thing the recipient does when they get the recall notification is to read the original! That’s what I do, anyway.

fixyourgardengate · 18/02/2021 20:51

It is currently my job to sort and allocate all the special delivery items in our delivery office. We're a fairly big office so 3 or 4 hundred items a day over 120 deliveries.

All smug as I made no mistakes yesterday, there were 3 today. I had to go out on a 31 mile round trip to deliver them before I went home.

It's my day off tomorrow so it's someone else's problem Grin

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