So yesterday I messed up at my job, for the first time while under a new boss and didn't realize until I got an angry call the next day. Didn't really understand what he was yelling about in his accent until some one who spoke better English explained to me.

Turns out it got someone else (who's been really nice to me) in trouble for not telling me properly.

Anyway I got put off for the weekend, made someone else have to work and now I wish I didn't exist...

Anyone else have something like this happen?

EDIT: And I spent my nights pay on something stupid cause I figured I'd make it back over the weekend... Fml

Someone gave the wrong person a portable x-ray earlier this week. While not a terribly expensive thing, it still caused some tension. Crap happens, don't sweat it.

Customers that come to my job almost always have an intention to piss off an employee, so I don't give a [censored] about them most of the time. If I get in trouble because one decides to push my buttons(and didn't like the outcome that they didn't expect, like, oh, bowing before them like they are gods) it's no big deal to me.

This isn't too common, as I and many other employees try to keep our cool.

Since I deal with money, I felt this plenty of times.

Took the words right out of my mouth.

Crap does indeed happen, at work and elsewhere. You made a mistake, your boss is peeved, but your boss will get over it and in a week or two it'll be forgotten. Don't worry about it. You're human (presumably) and you're going to make mistakes in life. Its not worth constantly stressing about.

Don't feel terrible.

You have a job and I don't!

Care to explain the situation?

I [censored] up every few weeks, no one has found out and I can always just blame a glitch

FYI: Employed people are allowed to feel bad about a given situation. It's not just the unemployed who are allowed to feel bad about it.

how about the two of you compromise and every one should feel bad.

i knocked over a crate of stained glass worth $10,000 and broke every sheet, twice, on different occasions. I was still fairly new and the response of all the supervisors was "welcome to [company name here] glass!" every one screws up big time at one point or another.

Yes. I'm very much aware of this, but thank you for the reminder.

My post wasn't made in some vain attempt for me to get some pity, believe me. As the resident crusader against that garbage, I would never be so much of a hypocrite as to make one of my own.

I was actually acknowledging a funny piece of irony between myself and the OP that one could see if they've been watching both of our personalities on this forum. You'd have to be in on some other threads the OP made as well as the personality I present on this board to get the joke though.

Jesus Mirg. You're working in a warehouse, not filming the next Jack Ass movie.

This wasn't a screw up at a job, as I have never have one, but I remember one time in Middle School, during a math class, I was sitting on top a really tiny book shelf. My teacher told me to hop off, and being the genius I was back then, I did just that... with heels aimed toward one of the actual shelves. I ended up drop kicking the entire thing, causing all the textbook to spill out under my feet and make me slip backwards into the rest of the poor thing.

Thankfully, I was able to shove the shelves back where they belonged and avoid paying for a new one.

If your boss is a reasonable fellow he'll probably let this one slide cause now he knows that you won't make the same mistake twice after this episode.

Learn from your mistakes and don't let them bring you down. That's how you grow.

I don't even get the joke, haha.

I've come the conclusion that none of that [censored] was my fault, he majorly over reacted and I spent 5 hours of sitting down being depressed for nothing. I still hate the place, even though in all honesty it's not that bad of a job, I just feel depressed thinking about it. I cannot wait until I finish working there on the 5th of February. Please hurry up...

I still feel bad for the guy that got yelled at because of me, I guess I got yelled at as well, but still.

in my defense, the second time when i flipped a case (the cases are on carts) it was because it was back when i was doing consecutive double shifts (20 hours) back to back with virtually no sleep. i was lucky to not hurt my self.

My GF is my boss and I still have days like this.

Try having to yell at and fire someone who's been nothing but nice to you, makes me feel like [censored].

I usually listen to this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH476CxJxfg to cheer me up!

[censored] happens. People screw up. Learn from it and try not to make that mistake again. Life's all about learning from your mistakes. God knows I've made a lot of mistakes in my 24 years on Earth.

You'll be fine.

Until recently I'd have said consecutive double shifts wouldn't be something any company would ever allow, but my best friend works at Mack Trucks, and last year at christmas(or the year before, can't remember which he said) the company was offering as much Overtime as people could handle, and my friend said that more then a few guys were literally just sleeping in their car. They'd use the restroom to freshen up, and they'd work 5 20 hour shifts in a row, before going home for the weekend, and then doing it all over again the next week. Buddy said they were making absurd amounts of money due to the OT being double-time(and the really hardcoe guys that would work on sunday got triple time).

It's hard to fathom working more then one 20 hour shift without some form of rest in-between. The closest I ever came was when I worked as a flagger, I had to travel 2 hours one way to get to my job, then I'd pull 14-16 hour shifts, then drive home, sleep for a few hours, then right back in. Thankfully that only lasted for two weeks, and I was only doing 4 day work weeks, so while it was rough, it was doable.

Years ago I had a warehouse job. One day we had some visitors being shown round to see how the operation worked. They paused in one of the goods aisles to watch a reach truck driver retrieve a pallet of red wine from the top level. Unfortunately, whilst the group was being talked through it by one of my bosses, the driver misjudged the fork height and pushed the pallet off the racking, causing 64 bottles of red wine to come crashing 5 levels down to the floor. The noise and the mess were unbelievable. Sometimes when I have a bad day I think about that poor sod

Things happen. You're human and humans make mistakes.

I went to a corporate event last Thursday with a lot of people I didn't know. One of which was my brand new Total Service Manager. There I was, in the middle of the event making jokes about our SIRs when they called him up to speak about the SIR department. I looked like a complete idiot. My supervisor was also there and afterwards pulled me aside and was like, 'Dude, WTF is wrong with you? You're an idiot.'. In my defense however I had never met my TSR and my supervisor should've introduced me. But whatever. I later went over to my TSR, introduced myself, apologized for my idiotic jokes and moved on. Since then, I've had two sit downs with my TSR discussing how to make certain departments and practices work better.

Sometimes, mistakes lead to things being fixed in your favor. Just learn from it and move on.

At my job we get these boxes of mirrors in every once in a while and 9 times out of 10 they're all broken. My theory is the reason stuff like that is so expensive is because so few of them actually survive the trip from the factory to the sales floor.

What was the mistake you made? Trick is to always show to your bosses that you will take whatever [censored]-up you made and turn it into a learning experience. As long as you show both remorse and progression from the event, you will be more value to them than firing you and going through the rehire process. If they think you'll do it again, or it was caused by a negative personality trait that you are not resolving, then be worried. Otherwise, just remember: everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put those little rubbers/erasers on the ends of pencils. And if that's not enough to convince you, I have cost my company over ￡45,000 and caused upset to more than 600 customers all told during the 3 years I've been working for my current employer. You admit your mistakes, you learn from it, you move on. It's all about attitude. At least you're clearly upset over the whole thing - I wouldn't be worried. If you were blasé, then you might be in trouble.

Could be worse. I just finished work now, and one of the temp workers pushed a mould over another guys fingertips today; gone to hospital with two of them fractured. Someone feels real, real bad right about now.

I've ruined some incredibly expensive food and ingredients over the years through inexperience, carelessness and forgetfullness, when you're working for Michelin star chefs it gets pretty bloody stressful. The thing is to learn from your mistakes. You may feel terrible now, but you will be a better employee, and a better person, for the experience.

I guess I can say the only major screw up was some file about h1b1 visa/ job for some woman getting misplaced in some stack of other applicants.

I know what it's like to be that useless worker that gets all the trash at work, I've seen it happen to others. If it was a mistake, don't worry about it. If you goofed real bad, try and be a better worker for it. Mistakes happen, you know?

If your workers won't let you hear the end of it, cast them aside, they're not worth your time or your health and get a new job. But that is easier said than done.

And the boss needed someone with a better accent to explain what he was saying? Haha, maybe if he took the phone receiver out of his mouth while yelling at you, you'd be able to hear what he said.