Minor mistake blown out of all proportion.

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I've just started a new job (big promotion) as financial director for a large company. My boss is lovely and supportive and we are both on the same wavelength. I've got huge expertise in this area and in many ways it's a dream job.

I recently took us in a new strategic direction and there were some teething troubles. Customers didn't like the cost increase the changes were causing and shareholders were fussing about the share price dropping.

I wanted to just move past the difficulties but colleagues just would not let it go. For the last week everyone had been pecking my head about this and that 'crashing' when we are having an important conference and need to get on with other stuff.

So I agreed to drop the biggest change, but people are still moaning that I should have 'listened' earlier. They are compaining that:
1.The market reaction means the company will pay £1.6 billion more, each year, to borrow money.

1. The banking arm had to transfer £65 billion into the pension arm to keep it afloat (they might not even spend all that).

That's hardly my fault, is it? How can I get my annoying colleagues (and ideally the customers too) to shut up and get in line?

As the rumour is you're very 'close' to your boss you'll be fine

Not sure what you want from everyone here? Do you want validation or ? If something is costing more money and causing a ahre price to drop then perhaps you need to re-evaluate what your goal is? Whether something is your fault or not you're the leader who will get the most pressure and fingers pointed at.

Zzzzzz🙄

God, these types of posts are tiresome.

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Get yourself photographed on a zip line. That usually helps everything to just "go away".

hilarious

Hide in a fridge, it's the only way.

Toast

I think the best course of action is to brazen it out. Double down on your commitments, he who dares wins after all.

Have you considered making cuts elsewhere to try and mitigate the increased costs? I'm sure there might be some dead wood you could cut somewhere such as company sponsorship of the less fortunate, libraries, schools, and so on? We're all in this together after all and I'm sure diverting money to the top will cause a trickle down of income for the bottom.

These threads are so tedious.

Yep, so boring.

They're really not. The government is hoping it'll all just go away now they've decided to u-turn however I'd rather people keep talking about it, keeping getting angry about it, and don't let it all go away. They fucked up and are continuing to fuck up, mistake upon mistake like a huge compacted mountain of shitty ideas and even shittier execution, they should be held accountable.

Let the ‘shareholders’ have a vote on whether they agree with you and your boss’ new direction, or if they’d rather someone else take the lead

Aren't there enough threads on this without this sad attempt at humour.

Is your boss Liz Truss?

Maybe bring the AGM forward so you can see if the shareholders agree with your new direction?

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😂😂 well I thought it was funny OP

God I miss clever funny threads

Yes I thought it was quite amusing. Why the bile if the thread is not for you? Plenty of threads are available

😂😂 well I thought it was funny OP

Thanks.

It's not even meant to be especially funny. After listening to Kwasi say basically what's in the OP on R4 I started writing the figures for how much one mistake has cost the public purse directly (never mind the cost to the economy) and it was just too infuriating.

I just thought this was a slightly less bleak and angry way to ask: how badly do you have to fuck up a job before you should quit?

No. We should keep talking about their huge fuck up. Let’s not be silenced and allow it to be forgotten.

My Tory in laws sound like some on this thread, they didn’t want it mentioned today. But they love pointing out other parties less than perfect behaviour. Funny that.

God I miss clever funny threads.

Perhaps you could write one?

Well I enjoyed it