Made a huge mistake

[Mark]

Our conservative party panders to them.

I think the UK has become far too diverse with different cultures to host mainstream religious views - which I guess is a bonus.

[CardShark]

If it helps i've screwed up big a few times.

One I've deleted a whole e-commerce site i built from the ground up, day before it was going live, that is a few grand down the drain.

and Two I've my automated script uploaded alot of items with the wrong pricing which resulted in alot of money being lost.

I also worked with a good friend who tried automating his upload to ebay ended up screwing up and costing the company around £40k.

So shit happens, but as you said yourself your the fastest employee nothing bad is going to happen and the bad name you've picked up will soon pass.

[Charon]

Recently a flight crew made a slight navigational error and rather than land their oversize 747 at the Air Force Base where it was expected, they put it down six miles short at an airport used by general aviation, some planes a large as a twin Lear Jet. The runway was too short, it wasn't certified to handle that kind of weight and, just as they realized their error, the end of the too small runway was almost upon them. Just by luck and really good brakes did they get it stopped by the nose was over a corn field. Now, clearly this is a mistake, a big mistake, a big public mistake. They guys who were flying it slid out a door in the fuselage away from the ever larger group of media and citizens. Boeing had to send a crawler which, it took hours, finally got it turned into the wind. They caught every break possible, when the landed , it was into a stiff Southerly Wind and, by the time all was turned the wind had shifted to the North and at a very stiff clip. Of course, you've still got to use a runway half the length routinely needed. Another lucky break. Rather than being full with most of a 787-it's normal cargo-it was empty so the load was as light as it could get. A new crew arrived, the pushed it back so a substantial part of the plane, right up to the landing gear, was over the corn field and then.....with full brakes on, the Captain turned the engines up to as many RPMS as it had. Slowly it went down the runway and just before the other end, the nose lifted and dragging some of the landing gear in another field, they got away and on to Boeing. Now, what has this to do with you? Simply this, what you did was a mistake certainly but one from which you'll learn and not repeat the incident. Ditto the guys who weren't paying attention and landed in the wrong place. They, too, learned a lesson in paying attention. I would like to think that both events made you better, more attentive at your job. Even if you were sacked, you still learned the lesson. As to the guys who landed in the wrong place...the firm that employed them would only say that personnel matters were private and not available to the media. I don't know but...bringing back the stocks followed by fifty lashes doesn't seem altogether unreasonable....

[freelandia]

With your good looks, why are you assembling/disassembling locks, dammit?

[swalter]

You did the right thing. You took responsibility for your mistake. People make mistakes, and it's OK. From an employer standpoint, immediately taking responsibility, and steps to prevent the mistake from happening again is an admirable, sought after trait. Bosses don't like people who pass the buck and avoid owning their mistakes. If you're especially concerned, you could always meet with your boss, explain what happened, what went wrong, and outline what you're doing to ensure it won't happen again. Bosses also love proactive employees.

[Wardo94]

That's how most jobs are. And people in general. They won't notice your achievements. But as soon as you fuck up, the whole world just burns. When I used to work in the restaurant business, the last two I was in, I was considered to be one of the fastest working employees at the time. I did what I had to do. I didn't fuck around. Did the job fast and most of the time, better than I had to do. But when I would mess up, even on the smallest thing, I would get scolded as if I killed someone. And they did that with all the good workers. I would notice thw workers who didn't do shit were getting better treatment. Happened in my last two jobs. I decided to quit. It really wasn't worth for what I was getting paid and the hard work I put into the job. When I told him that I was going to quit, he stood next to me as I was working and said "You think you would stay if I raised your pay 00.50 cents?". I just saw that as a slap. If this continues in your job, what you have to ask yourself is if your employers really value you as a worker. Unless you need the job, I would start finding something better cause' you're not a slave and deserve to be treated as person and not some robot that had a slight miscalculation. I really hope everything smoothes out though. Good luck