The past couple of days, I've found that I've been making some mistakes at work and haven't been concentrating or paying attention as well as I should, which even makes me feel overwhelmed and stressed out.
Last night I had to stay an hour late in the office because of a couple of mistakes I had made in the afternoon that I needed to correct. I was printing the payroll checks and deposit slips for our company's 1,200 retirees, and I absent-mindedly clicked on the wrong print file (there were two of them) and ended up duplicating a whole stack of them and wasting 600 copies. Fine, I restarted the print job with the correct file. When the printer ran out of check stocks at some point, I added some more, not realizing I had fed them in the wrong direction! So a range of checks (about 130 of them) had to be reprinted, and I asked my co-worker's help to extract the necessary data to re-upload and rerun the file so that I could reprint the misfed checks. Although "Sam" was very gracious about it, I thanked him and I apologized for his leaving the office later than usual.
Today I had another "senior episode." I misplaced an important piece of document that I was supposed to give a co-worker, and I couldn't remember, for the life of me, where the hell I put it. I retraced my steps, checked all the places/desks I had stopped by, asked other co-workers, and sent out a note if they had seen anything. After swimming through the dozens of envelopes in the mail room, I finally found it. I apologized to "Sherry" profusely, and she said it was okay, but I still felt so embarrassed and upset with myself. So I decided to go home early, thinking what the fuck was wrong with me.
Although such incidents were minor and there was no damage done, I still felt pretty bad.
I guess I'm just venting now. I'm sure people have had some pretty stressful situations at work. Feel free to share them.
Last night I had to stay an hour late in the office because of a couple of mistakes I had made in the afternoon that I needed to correct. I was printing the payroll checks and deposit slips for our company's 1,200 retirees, and I absent-mindedly clicked on the wrong print file (there were two of them) and ended up duplicating a whole stack of them and wasting 600 copies. Fine, I restarted the print job with the correct file. When the printer ran out of check stocks at some point, I added some more, not realizing I had fed them in the wrong direction! So a range of checks (about 130 of them) had to be reprinted, and I asked my co-worker's help to extract the necessary data to re-upload and rerun the file so that I could reprint the misfed checks. Although "Sam" was very gracious about it, I thanked him and I apologized for his leaving the office later than usual.
Today I had another "senior episode." I misplaced an important piece of document that I was supposed to give a co-worker, and I couldn't remember, for the life of me, where the hell I put it. I retraced my steps, checked all the places/desks I had stopped by, asked other co-workers, and sent out a note if they had seen anything. After swimming through the dozens of envelopes in the mail room, I finally found it. I apologized to "Sherry" profusely, and she said it was okay, but I still felt so embarrassed and upset with myself. So I decided to go home early, thinking what the fuck was wrong with me.
Although such incidents were minor and there was no damage done, I still felt pretty bad.
I guess I'm just venting now. I'm sure people have had some pretty stressful situations at work. Feel free to share them.
