All career f*ckups check in

[HEyHEY]

Ooo.... this is the second week I've made a major fuckup with the paper.

I feel like a fucking fuckwad. And stupid besides...

[name not needed]

1. Recovering fuckup #3456789 checking in

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. fuckup=human

be glad you are one... that you give enough of a shit to know what is a fuckup and what is not

[LibertyorDeath]

3. You are to hard on yourself.

What's the scoop

[HEyHEY]

4. well....

I somehow managed to put one page of a TV guide where there should have been a full-page ad. As well, I accidentally doubled up a 1/4 page ad and therefore missed another.

[prolesunited]

5. It sounds like the problem is

that you don't have enough help. Why is editorial messing with advertising anyway?

How big is the paper? How often does it publish? How big is the staff?

[HEyHEY]

7. Well I didn't want to say it

Because it sounds like I'm blaming something else. But we usually put out a 32-36 page paper with a staff of three.

This week's was 60 pages, and I work all weekend and up till 3:00 am last night putting it together.

The main problem is we only have two people who really do the ads, one is our production/office/accounting girl/. THe other is me editor/layout/reporter. And what gets me is production day is monday, and all our ads are never in until late monday. So I end up doing what I can with what I have, then I have to go back and put in the rest of the ads as they come in.

I also have a few columnist and a freelancer but they don't help with production.

[prolesunited]

9. What does the publisher say about this?

Why not build a case for hiring a part-time person just to help out on production days? You obviously were overtired and overworked. Mistakes happen much more easily then.

You screw up editorial content and primarily the readers are pissed, but you screw up advertising, the publisher loses money. Maybe you can make your case on this basis.

Good luck! I hope you can get it straightened out. :hug:

[HEyHEY]

11. Well, I called her

I heard she flamin pissed during today...but she was okay when I called.

We have a person who comes in to help on production day, but she is only there to help with ad production.

[LibertyorDeath]

8. This will soon be a distant memory.

Don't sweat the small shit.

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. Hey, I f*cked up three times on the same damned appraisal and it's

stuck in underwriting waiting for me to get my act together. No worries HeyHEY...it happens to everybody. And I look at it this way, if I'm keeping someone from making the hugest mistake of their life by refinancing on a 3 year ARM...then that might just be okay in these times. :hi:

[seventhson]

10. A close and very longtime friend had her ten year old daughter and ...

fifteen month old grandson murdered by her 20 yer old daughter's "boyfriend" last week.

I spent the last week with the family who is devastated but trying to recover from a breathlessly horrific nightmare.

Do NOT sweat the small stuff. Life is precious, fragile and beautiful. Stuff is just stuff and you need to lighhten up on the deadlines.

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. Oh God seventhson. I am so utterly sorry and devastated.

That is just horrid. I will be thinking of you and your friend. I do not know what else to say.

:hug: Laura

[seventhson]

23. It is okay. we'll survive it. I hope the mom's will

two mother's losing children to senseless violence.

They have been rocks of Gibraltar.

The ten year old girl was a best friend of my 9 year old son and so we knew her well.

It seems like the american way globally these days(the killer had slipped through the net of the mental health and criminal systems, just like Bush)

Thanks for your empathy.

Just keep being your Mrs. Grumpy self and we will hopefully ALL make it through the horrors now and ahead.

But it is just a reminder of how sometimes our petty greivances and foibles pale in comparison to true tragedy. Our whole lives are affected and the little stuff just seems like burnt toast.

[Tripper11]

13. Spent all day playing catch up.....

at my new job. Been getting lots of positive feedback as I learn this gig. Lots and lots to learn though, but they are happy with me.

Normally I go in for 8:30 am, but today I got in at 9:30 so I could stay an hour late to learn some new things and felt like I walked in on something I wasn't invited to.

The thing is, everyone in the news room was in the same way, kind of a general clusterfuck vibe.

Tomorrow will be better, and being new, I can get away with a few fuck ups without feeling too bad. ;-)

[JVS]

14. Your work is suffering because you are too busy

I can tell you are too busy because you aren't posting as much as usual

[HEyHEY]

15. Perhaps I should quit and become a Hobo

Travelling around the country accessing DU from public Libraries....oddly, seems like it'd be a good time.

[Tripper11]

16. I have been quite busy....

but really enjoying it, learning tons, getting a decent wage, and had the very fortunate task of choosing a second health plan for Mrs. Tripper and the tripettes.

We're dropping my wifes coverage and save $600 a month and will be nicely covered.

I wish everyone could have the choices we just had. More health benefits, not less.

Anyway, it's been a long time since I worked full time and we're going to take full advantage. Everything has finally clicked for us for a change (knock on wood) !!!

[ironflange]

17. I'm a caterer, and one time. . .

I forgot to wash my hands once before doing up a salad. Well, out of 140 guests, 105 came down with typhoid and 23 died.

Boy, was my face red!

[Donkeyboy75]

20. You're one funny sumbitch!

[frylock]

18. ultra fuckup here - possibly cost me my job

I overwrote some files when I pushed an OS image to one of my end user's laptops. Got a call from my Regional Manager; the client doesn't want me back in the office, not tomorrow, not ever! Claims I've gone from golden boy to goat. Damn.. I built that office a year ago, and have never once had anything like this happen. This end user is a technician's nightmare, too. He saved these files to his hard drive rather than the network drive despite my direction to NOT save them locally. To top it off, he saved them to a dir he created in the root of the C drive, instead of My Documents directory, which gets backed up before I push my image.

Anyway, my Regional called back a half hour later, and tells me to lie low and just work from home till this all shakes out. Then, the Office Director calls my celly late in the day, because I sent her a quick Note asking to buzz me, and leaves a vm, all amiable like, that she would see me in the morning. I was positive that she was the one who would have asked that I not return, now I'm just confused.

[woofless]

19. Hey pal, look at the up-side.

You get to go around all day wearing a cool grey Fedora with a card that says PRESS in the jazzy satin hatband!And, and, and you get to yell cool stuff like "Stop the presses!" and stuff. Yeah.

Woof

[Donkeyboy75]

21. My graduate school has been an endless

march of severe fuckups peppered by the occassional colossal fuckup. So don't feel too badly.

:hi:

[Dogmudgeon]

22. The Sorid Story

Last year, after 18 months of unemployment, I got a job working as an interface developer for a local computer company.

They immediately put me on to a particular job, finishing an interface for a customer in Massachusetts. I was told it was 95% done but it was a week overdue, and not to be upset because it was a "small client".

Over the course of the next three weeks, I learned it was 5% done and eight months overdue. The "small client" had a string of dozens of clinics throughout New England and its CEO was a nasty SOB with a short temper.

Nothing I could do was right, and it got more and more wrong with every passing day. The laptop computer they gave me all-of-the-sudden crashed and lost the entire hard disk. I was given at least two operating system images that were out of date, one by three months. Conflicting orders came down, people who had been friendly kept their distance, and the place became a vale of tears.

So, as George Thorogood would say, "... and out the door I went."

Long story short? I re-connected with one of my workmates and got the real story. They hired me so that they could blame the entire disaster on me, and then fire me, using me as an excuse for every screwup they made. I didn't have to feel too bad, since they pulled the same stunt on several other people, too; except that I was the first non-immigrant they tried it on, and the corporate lawyer was a little nervous that I might sue them.

As it turned out, the company lost a lot of money later that year, outsourced 90% of its staff, and hired a bunch of grant writers. I suspect that they aren't long for the corporate food chain.

They were careful not to use my name, only "that guy we hired in June". I suppose I should be happy. But if even one report gets back to me to the contrary, the shit will be readied for the fan.

Anyway, my brother was just hired at a job that is playing games, too. After only the first hour there, they started showing an indordinate interest in his previous customer database.

And the neo-Cons wonder why businesspeople have such a bad collective reputation!

--bkl