When you mess up at work and there is no way to make it better?

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What do you do?

Just eat humble pie forever?

Forever? No.

Be honest and own up. Shit happens. You're only human.

well depends how serious op
any consequences?

The best thing to do is to own up and apologise. You will need to determine the root cause of the error, whether it was due to lack of training or awareness, rushing, stress, tiredness, or something else. You will need to address the cause of the issue to ensure that it does not happen again. We are not robots, and we will make mistakes, some of which may be more significant than others.

Acknowledge your mistake, put plans in place to ensure it never happens again, depending on severity maybe keep your head down for a short time, but definitely not forever.

Are we allowed to ask for details?

Leave, if it’s that bad and you’re not just catastrophising.

I own it and don't hide....however equally as I get older I realise the amount of powerful people who make mistakes and they don't seem to suffer so why should those lower down the chain? Don't be a martyr, mistakes happen

Confess immediately.
Do whatever you can to make the situation better or at least part.
Apologise.
Own it, learn from it, accept any disciplinary action, move on and not dwell.

Everyone makes mistakes, it's very rarely something that can't be fixed. Own up and own it but don't let it weigh on you for very long...

Apologise
Learn
Don’t repeat
Crack on

and accept NO gaslighting crap from anyone who childishly refuses to let it go despite your efforts.

I owned up. No issue there.

I work for a charity.

I filled in the wrong form for a co-funding application.

The charity's project was selected by the other co-funding source but because I'd filled in the wrong form on the first co-funding source, we aren't eligible.

We are on a shoestring as it is. Every application I make gets rejected.

I think I should be fired. I just feel so shit. I work really hard to make applications and it never works.

This!

Imo if a huge mistake can be made and can't be sorted, there needs to be a change in process for more checks and measures. We're human, mistakes inevitably happen.

Own up, apologise, explain how you are going to fix it and ensure it doesn't happen again, move on

For something as vital as this, it might be worth looking at a process for checking before forms are submitted. Could a colleague support? Can you develop a checklist.

Sorry this has happened OP.

Funding applications are hard and should never be just done alone.

How did you get the form, did they put the wrong one on their website?

ok

this is very serious and you need to convey to them that you get this is very serious and you are profoundly sorry.

It is all you can do. But i think conveying how appalled you feel about this is important

this is surely serious enough to be a very outing thread op?

how long ago did this happen?

20th September.

Heard today we had been shortlisted by the one funding source.

Had heard nothing from the other so I called them and that's when they said I'd filled in the wrong form. So we were rejected.

We can reapply but it just means funding arrives at much later date IF we get approval.

so it’s all come to light… today?

Funding screw ups happen in charities all the time, so I doubt it. Especially small charities that don't have specialist resources to support it.

wait so this happened almost a month ago?

were you disciplined at all?

how on earth do you know that?