What a plonker I am... someone please sort my bloody head out

[qwertystuff]

I usually work an extra hour at the weekend. Well today, I still had it in my head I am only doing the hours I do in the week. So I ended up leaving earlier and didn't realise until I got home! I know this is absolutely not a big deal considering this pandemic that's going on but what a DICK! I rang my manager and apologised massively and said I will make it up to them if they need me at all. Didn't sound happy with me but He said well it's been done now hasn't it The guilt is already eating away at me. I am so worried about going back to work now. This is definitely going to end up as a disciplinary isn't it? I suffer from severe health anxiety and my head has not been working properly at all but this is no excuse is it

You are punishing yourself MASSIVELY! Did anyone die? If not then please don’t torture yourself! Your manager sounds like a class a Twit!

And for him saying ‘well it’s been done now hasn’t it ‘.. passive aggression at its finest right there! Tw*t!

Don’t worry about it, OP.
Certainly don’t feel guilty about it.

Haha no thank goodness! This is what happens when I have constant anxiety, not just health but generalised as well. Majority of people would laugh it off. But this sort of stuff plays on my mind and makes me feel so much worse.

OP, kindly, calm down. Yes your manager is likely to be annoyed at paying an employee for an hour they were meant to be there and weren’t. This is a perfectly normal reaction. However, if it was THAT big of a deal, you wouldn’t have been able to walk out an hour earlier without someone noticing or questioning it. You might be asked to make up an hour on a future shift, which is perfectly reasonable and something you should agree too.

Relax!

Where do you work?
You have offered to make up the hour, please try not to worry about this. A disciplinary? Surely, if they feel the need to, it would just a a first verbal warning?
You haven’t been embezzling, haven’t punched a coworker, damaged work property -honestly, with everything going on right now it’s totally understandable your mind is elsewhere occasionally.
If they make a big issue of this then they are terrible employers. Forget about it, in a few months you can laugh about it with colleagues “do you remember that time.....”

In the current climate, it's totally understandable! All the days are muddled, everyone's worried about a global pandemic... honestly I wouldn't give it a second thought.

I’m the same Op.. massive worrier and have anxiety and over think things for hours and days ..
you did the noble thing and called your boss .. you were honest and you care .. that shows you’re a good person.. now please have a g and t.. you’ve done more than most today (I’m not even dressed)

Easily done OP, as a lot of us seem to be living in a 'dayless' haze at the moment.

I disagree that your boss is a twat though. There was nothing wrong with that reaction.

I'd try not to worry about it. You did the right thing in making contact and offering to make up the time.

From a management point of view I wouldn't be happy with an employee leaving an hour early without permission. In my old job it would have resulted in a written warning as it's classified as unauthorised absence.

However if a colleague rang and apologised and it was a first off, I would just let them make the time up.

@SecretsInSpitalfield That isn't passive aggressive, it's a fact. It is done. But it's not the end of the world.

@qwertystuff. Breathe!! Jesus kiddo it’s an hour! The sky hasn’t fallen in. It was a genuine mistake. Stop worrying. It’s not a big deal. Half of us don’t know which day if the week it is anymore -it’s unsurprising you made a small mistake

☕️🍰relax

In the current climate, it's totally understandable!

But it’s equally important for OP to understand this is not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. Unless OP is terrible at their job anyway, would it be riskier to:

Sack OP.

Go through loads of staged interviews meeting loads of strangers face to face.

Making a decision on who to hire.

Have a person/people train said new person up.

Or:

Make OP, already trained and sufficient in their job, probably desperately needed during this current climate, to do an hour extra for the one OP missed out on? Or cut OPs wages by exactly one hour?

I missed the part about anxiety at the end of your post OP so sorry but please, just try and calm yourself down and forget about it and enjoy your weekend. This is really not a big deal.

One of my former colleagues left work an hour early after the clocks had changed because he forgot to do his watch. He said he only realised when he got home switched on the TV and 'Neighbours' was just starting.

Unless you’re a life guard at a beach or a theatre nurse, don’t worry. You’ll probably lose an hours pay or have the opportunity to work it another time. Your manager was probably just irritated at being disturbed, everyone’s a bit stressed at the moment.

I wonder what your job is if you can leave an hour earlier and nobody noticed. Depends on what it is wether it’s a big deal or not.

My sister did this once and she's a a teacher. she brought her entire class to the after school club an entire hour early and went off home.
The after school club were surprised to see 2B arriving at 12pm instead of 1pm but no one said anything.
Sister didn't realise till much later that day.