Why are my few mistakes amplified while the things I do right are missed?

[Ilmater]

I just sent a sheet with some figures to my VP that he INSTANTLY sent on to our President. It had one wrong number on it. It's not so wrong that it's immediately noticable, but it is wrong. I walked down 2 minutes after sending it to him and told him about it... he laid into me as much as he ever would: no yelling, just repeating, "Bob, you can't do that. Bob, I sent that to Jerry, you can't do that. You have to check those things."

What do you say? "I know. I know better, it was just a mistake. It's one bad cell reference. I double-checked it, but I missed it."

Plus, 90% of the day, he's not even in his fvcking office, and I happened to catch him during the 10 minutes he's in there to send it immediately along. Not to mention the fact that he normally would have so many e-mails in there that he wouldn't have seen it until later.

Such a great fvcking day.

(names changed to protect the incompetent)

 

[neovan]

"laying into me" just doesn't sound right.

i hope you're ok.

 

[lancestorm]

Don't worry, President Bush won't notice the mistake anyways. He's too busy planning which country he wants to invade next.

 

[Ilmater]

Originally posted by: lancestorm
Don't worry, President Bush won't notice the mistake anyways. He's too busy planning which country he wants to invade next.

Errr... ummm... not that President.

 

[RagingBITCH]

Originally posted by: lancestorm
Don't worry, President Bush won't notice the mistake anyways. He's too busy planning which country he wants to invade next.

Maybe it'll be Canada, so we can get rid of you French speaking morons.

 

[notfred]

heh, every other email that's sent around here is followed up by an "Oops! Correction...." type email.

 

[DaTT]

I don't understand how you could have missed that Bob. It just can't happen like this, Bob. People lose their jobs over 1 wrong number, Bob. What kind of business do you think we run here, Bob?I think we may have to replace you with an ape, Bob. Pack up your things, Bob.

 

[Ilmater]

Originally posted by: notfred
heh, every other email that's sent around here is followed up by an "Oops! Correction...." type email.

Same here, but I'm extremely particular about what I send out... hence the 2 minute timeframe before I caught the mistake.

 

[Ilmater]

Originally posted by: DaTT
I don't understand how you could have missed that Bob. It just can't happen like this, Bob. People lose their jobs over 1 wrong number, Bob. What kind of business do you think we run here, Bob?I think we may have to replace you with an ape, Bob. Pack up your things, Bob.

Yep... basically just like that.

 

[DaveSimmons]

So do you work for Sound Transit (Seattle Times)?

Sound Transit says a March report overestimated the cost of a possible bus-only, high-capacity transit system for the Eastside by about $1 billion . . .

 

[maziwanka]

i've most certainly been there

trust me, it doesn't matter assuming the work you produce afterwards is good

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
So do you work for Sound Transit (Seattle Times)?

Sound Transit says a March report overestimated the cost of a possible bus-only, high-capacity transit system for the Eastside by about $1 billion . . .

By the time they actually finish it, I bet the cost would have overrun by that much anyway.

 

[lancestorm]

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH

Originally posted by: lancestorm
Don't worry, President Bush won't notice the mistake anyways. He's too busy planning which country he wants to invade next.

Maybe it'll be Canada, so we can get rid of you French speaking morons.

LMAO. Dude, I'm not Canadian and my profile does not accurately where I actually live. U.S. baby. I even like the President. It just felt good to be the evil P&N person for a second there.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH

Originally posted by: lancestorm
Don't worry, President Bush won't notice the mistake anyways. He's too busy planning which country he wants to invade next.

Maybe it'll be Canada, so we can get rid of you French speaking morons.

:roll: You two deserve each other

 

[jtvang125]

That's life man! Just like my boss said to me, "You can do 10, 20 good things but it only takes 1 bad thing to erase all the good things you just did".

Don't worry, everyone makes mistakes...of course if you're repeatedly making the same mistakes then you got a problem.

 

[Ilmater]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
So do you work for Sound Transit (Seattle Times)?

Sound Transit says a March report overestimated the cost of a possible bus-only, high-capacity transit system for the Eastside by about $1 billion . . .

Heh... no, not nearly that bad. It showed a certain metric at 120% of target instead of 105%. Noticable, but it wasn't THAT far off.

 

[exilera]

Originally posted by: lancestorm
Don't worry, President Bush won't notice the mistake anyways. He's too busy planning which country he wants to invade next.

:roll:

 

[DaTT]

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH

Originally posted by: lancestorm
Don't worry, President Bush won't notice the mistake anyways. He's too busy planning which country he wants to invade next.

Maybe it'll be Canada, so we can get rid of you French speaking morons.

You Americans have tried to invade.....to no avail. B!tch!

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Ilmater

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
So do you work for Sound Transit (Seattle Times)?

Sound Transit says a March report overestimated the cost of a possible bus-only, high-capacity transit system for the Eastside by about $1 billion . . .

Heh... no, not nearly that bad. It showed a certain metric at 120% of target instead of 105%. Noticable, but it wasn't THAT far off.

Metrics?

oh hell, everybody lies about those. "Look! We made up some measurements and we are above target! Yeah! Go us!"

"if you can't measure it you can't manage it"
"Let's go for stretch"

 

[Yossarian]

to answer the question in your thread title, it's because your boss is a dick.

 

[Ilmater]

Originally posted by: Yossarian
to answer the question in your thread title, it's because your boss is a dick.

QFT! Well, in fairness, he's not that bad, but it was an honest mistake and I caught it quickly.

 

[Yossarian]

it reminds me of a scene in the miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon". I'm paraphrasing, but it went like this--a landing gear test failed because an engineer made a mistake in his calculations. when he found the problem he went to his boss. the boss wasn't happy, but he said "you didn't try to cover it up, you came in here and told me about it so we could fix it. that attitude is the only way we're gonna get to the moon".

It would be good to work for someone like that.

 

[Ilmater]

Originally posted by: Yossarian
it reminds me of a scene in the miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon". I'm paraphrasing, but it went like this--a landing gear test failed because an engineer made a mistake in his calculations. when he found the problem he went to his boss. the boss wasn't happy, but he said "you didn't try to cover it up, you came in here and told me about it so we could fix it. that attitude is the only way we're gonna get to the moon".

It would be good to work for someone like that.

Exactly... I could have done nothing and just hope that it wasn't noticed, but I didn't. I immediately tried to reconcile the situation.

Grrr... it ticks me off, but it's my fault, so it's hard to get over it.