To think I'm fucked

[mysonphillip]

I've made a huge fuck up at work. Big, likely to cost the company around £60k.
Not to mention a load of work.

A genuine mistake made with the best of intentions and while trying to do a good job. I'm generally very good at my job and highly valued I think, so hopefully not a sackable offence, but still shitting myself. I do have treated anxiety too, which isn't helping as you can imagine.

I just work so, so hard and try my best, and this project has been really stressful - perhaps part of the reason the mistake happened. Also married, kids, mortgage etc, and all the day to day stress that goes with that.

AIBU to ask for stories where you made similarly big cock ups and what happened, and how you dealt with it? Just looking for a bit of support and a handhold before I go to my boss on Monday.

Poor OP. Why can't people just report a thread if they think it's a journalist/troll/not genuine? I've seen a similar thread before, probably because it happens a lot and people want advice or to know they're not the only one. Which could have been comforting for OP to know if it hadn't just been used to make her feel worse.

What on earth is a mistake made with the best intentions. Did you go massively beyond your remit?

@Misunderestimated

Jack Welch - who took pride in firing 10% of his workforce every year - had an employee lose an eye-watering sum. It was assumed that the person would immediately be fired, but Welch retorted "I can't afford to, after what I've just spent on his tuition".

That makes zero sense to me.

Owning up and having a plan to fix or minimise the loss will be important. Talk to your boss as soon as possible on Monday.

Because such mistakes are not a one-off but happen regularly.

To everyone saying they've read the thread before it does seem similar yes but don't fuck ups at work happen like almost every day? Imagine if we put a cap on how many types of threads there could be - at this point we'd never have any threads on parenting at all

Fess up immediately,, apologise lots, suggest solutions and be prepared for the fall-out.

@daisychain01 i do understand that, that wasn’t my point, im not suggesting they are shrugged off. What I’m saying is genuine mistakes can happen to anyone, no matter how smart/efficient/ good at your job you are, as other posters are saying “you are only human, humans are fallible”. And in the medical field this doesn’t seem to be recognised, Drs aren’t allowed to make mistakes of any kind without persecution, which feeds into the blame culture that PP mentioned.

U alone were allowed to handle this huge amount of money? Weren't their no system in place guessing u must be a high flying manager ?

I was mixing some chemicals at part of a process at work (NHS). There were manufacturing problems, supply shortages and so hospitals were having to liase with each other via the suppliers to track down remaining supplies and decide priority/need. We'd given our last kit a few weeks ago to a hospital elsewhere in the UK thinking we wouldn't need any more a while. Few weeks later and we need more of these chemicals so the supplier tracked down the last kit available, which was flown in from Germany specially. I opened the box, took out bottle A chemical and bottle B chemical, and immediately poured bottle B into the place A should have gone. Ruined.

This depends on the size of the company really though doesn't it

I didn't believe it until reading this!!

Hope you're okay OP and that you found a solution x

The poster behind the armadillo incident has posted about it on several similar threads. She also shares another large-scale incident triggered by one of her relatives. They always cheer me up.

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