Person help: I feel so stupid right now and I don’t know what to do, so I am typing it all here.

tehmina_inaya

I feel so stupid right now and I don’t know what to do, so I am typing it all here.

Last weekend, I was given a big pile of internet sale receipts by a cashier at work. I went over them and thought that they were just receipts and that we didn’t need them. I was catching up on months’ worth of shredding so I ended up shredding those receipts also.
I got an email from my boss on Monday asking me what I had done with the internet sale receipts. I didn’t know whether I should tell her or pretend that I don’t know what happened to them. After agonizing over it for hours, I decided to tell her the truth. I apologized for it and said that I would have never touched them had I known that those were important papers. Well, I got a reply back from her saying that I should never shred any papers in the future and that she needed them and she doesn’t know why I would shred them.
I work only part time on weekends, so I won’t be seeing her anytime soon, but I feel so awful. I don’t know if I should apologize again, or go see her especially to apologize in person. I feel like an idiot and it’s a very depressing thought.

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mumstheword 21 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (4 minutes after post)

Everyone makes mistakes. You did the right thing and apologised and explained what happened.

No-one can ask more than that.

Keep smiling and don’t let this one incident spoil things for you any more.

Instead, focus on doing very well at something you feel confident with. It will give you a much needed boost.

You could also try something positive like tidying the coffee area or making a point of being early one day. Make people notice good things, not just bad. I’m sure they do already.

Your boss is bound to be feeling a bit stressed but what’s done is done.

Good news are those little words “in the future”. She’s given her advice, she doesn’t intend to fire you over this!

Good luck.

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Winter.Rain 8 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (12 minutes after post)

mumstheword wrote:
Everyone makes mistakes. You did the right thing and apologised and explained what happened.

No-one can ask more than that.

Keep smiling and don’t let this one incident spoil things for you any more.

Instead, focus on doing very well at something you feel confident with. It will give you a much needed boost.

You could also try something positive like tidying the coffee area or making a point of being early one day. Make people notice good things, not just bad. I’m sure they do already.

Your boss is bound to be feeling a bit stressed but what’s done is done.

Good news are those little words “in the future”. She’s given her advice, she doesn’t intend to fire you over this!

Good luck.

ALways good stuff mums. ^^

tehmina_inaya 0 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year ago (24 minutes after post)

Thank you mumstheword. You make me feel better already. I have been working there since I started university a few years ago, and have made many many stupid mistakes, but have never felt this bad because I knew they could be fixed easily. This time, I am not so sure it could be fixed and that is why I can’t help stressing about it. I don’t know whether I should reply back to my boss’s email and assure her that I would never repeat the same mistake in the future. I haven’t seen her in months and doubt I will see her for another few months, and by then she should have forgotten all about this episode, but I don’t want her to tell anyone else in the office about this. The last thing I want is for everyone to know how stupid I can be sometimes :(

xxjust.another.dayxx 1 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year ago (41 minutes after post)

good thing u told the truth otherwise she would of been really pissed off
if you think the boss is a nice person go and talk to her in private and apoligize
if you think that shes not to nice leave her be
work really hard to make up for it too
its k everyone makes mistakes

Help me with: every single day he walks right past me and doesnt say anything

mumstheword 21 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year ago (57 minutes after post)

I don’t think you need to reply if you’ve already apologised.

You’re not stupid.

You’re just human like the rest of us! Sometimes we strive so hard to please we forget to take a step back and say.. hey, I’m doing ok.

A first job is always a huge learning curve. It’s a completely different ballgame to college life. New rules, new standards, new methods..

I have a favourite quote you might like to stick on the inside of your office drawer to peek at when you think things are going pear-shaped:

A man’s errors are his portals of discovery. (James Joyce)

Learn to appreciate your mistakes as life-lessons. Without them you would not be making any progress in any direction.

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