Need some advice

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 12:34 am

I screwed up big at work this morning by missing one of my own conferences, but only a few subordinates know. Don't know if it will get back to the boss at all, and once I offer the make-up conference all should be rosy.

Do I tell my boss? I already had one big screwup this week and I'm terrified of getting canned. I just inherited the work of all the people who got laid off and last week it cracked me a bit.

Post by **Kaylee** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 3:31 am

From what you told me, assuming:

* Everything is now fine
* You fixed the problem
* The financial impact was $0
* All important documents (re the project, not relating to the screwup) have been appropriately circulated

Then you're in the clear. If your boss asks or if the mistake is brought up, then explain how it's not an issue and apologise for responsibility blah blah blah.

A (good?) manager will only care about a problem while it's in progress and they will want to know: what is needed to fix it? How do we stop it happening again? Who caused it? How much will it cost to fix?

In your case the answers are: nothing, nothing, Spenster, $0.

That's a pretty minor rap sheet in anyone's book

You should be fine. As I said, any problems I'll hire you as my butler.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 2:41 am

I burn offerings to the wise Karlacle.

Seriously, I am so damn stressed out about my job. I seem to make gaffes left and right lately... all part of a rough stretch in the mental health.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:01 pm

Agree with Karlster. Don't. Say. A. Word.

Post by **Kaylee** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 4:05 pm

bumblemusprime wrote:I burn offerings to the wise Karlacle.

Seriously, I am so damn stressed out about my job. I seem to make gaffes left and right lately... all part of a rough stretch in the mental health.

Don't be stressed about your job.

You live on a tiny mudball which is half-soaked in undrinkable water, inhabited by psychotic apes and barrelling through a godless, frozen Universe littered with black holes, lethal radiation, terrifying worlds made of poisonous substances and asteroids which cross our path on a regular basis. The only 'positive' is that human lives are so short we probably won't live long enough to see those things destroy us, our civilisation and everything we have ever created, or are likely to create, and leave the rest of the uncaring cosmos no wiser as to our having ever existed.

Don't worry about your job. You've much, much bigger problems

#TheBigScaryPicture

DJ_Convoy · Post by **DJ_Convoy** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:05 pm

Keep schtum. Keep calm. And relax, for your sake!

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:17 pm

Karl wrote:
bumblemusprime wrote:I burn offerings to the wise Karlacle.

Seriously, I am so damn stressed out about my job. I seem to make gaffes left and right lately... all part of a rough stretch in the mental health.
Don't be stressed about your job.

You live on a tiny mudball which is half-soaked in undrinkable water, inhabited by psychotic apes and barrelling through a godless, frozen Universe littered with black holes, lethal radiation, terrifying worlds made of poisonous substances and asteroids which cross our path on a regular basis. The only 'positive' is that human lives are so short we probably won't live long enough to see those things destroy us, our civilisation and everything we have ever created, or are likely to create, and leave the rest of the uncaring cosmos no wiser as to our having ever existed.

Don't worry about your job. You've much, much bigger problems

#TheBigScaryPicture

Phew. I feel much better.