News flash: I am human and I make mistakes.

[evile]

I had to tell my new boss that not once but TWICE today. It was pretty effing epic. Wow, your highest producer with the lowest error rate got busted on TWO mistakes? and could not explain how or why those mistakes had been made? I must be a HUMAN BEING who makes MISTAKES. Yes, please, harass and pester me some more. Keep asking me "why did you do that?" over and over again until I cry. I love that. I am HUMAN and I MAKE MISTAKES.

I WISH TO GAWD I WAS PERFECT AND NEVER EVER MADE A MISTAKE, but that is NEVER going to happen, no matter how much I try, no matter how hard I work, no matter how furiously I beat and torture myself after I fuck up.

I AM HUMAN AND I MAKE MISTAKES.

Accept that, Fire me, or fuck off, I care not which.

& here is some irony-sauce from my email box, just to top off today.



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Today's thought from Hazelden is:

Today I accept the fact that I have made mistakes.

I
find comfort in knowing that, in the past, I did what I thought was
right at the time. What makes my mistakes seem so bad is that I judge
them by what I know today. I know more than I did then, and less than I
will tomorrow.

I
trust that, in the future, I will not make the same mistakes. I have
more information now, and I will be able to handle things differently
and make wiser choices. I accept myself for who I was then and for who I
am today.

You are reading from the book:

Time to Break Free by Judith R. Smith

Time
to Break Free © 1999 by Judith R. Smith. All rights reserved. Printed
in the United States of America. No portion of this publication may be
reproduced in any manner without the permission of Hazelden.

Comments

[colorbars.livejournal.com]

Some people are just assholes honey. Of course mistakes are made. *hug*

[bramblekite.livejournal.com]

I'm not allowed to make mistskes. When I fuck up, it's because i'm evil, stupid, or possibly both, and I am not allowed second chances, forgiveness, or redemption, just endless punishments or doors slammed in my face forever. No second chances.

[made-of-paradox.livejournal.com]

The repeatedly asking 'why' when you don't know or don't remember?

Look into the definition of insanity, boss....

[bramblekite.livejournal.com]

it's part of some 'kinder, gentler' management style, this kind of questioning: "Help me to understand why you made this mistake, then I will offer reminders and remedial training because you obviously don't know your job or understand how to do it,"

It's very kind and gentle. I am just obviously some kind of idiot who hasn't been trained properly and don't know how to do my job. of course.

[made-of-paradox.livejournal.com]

It would be one thing if there were a consistent pattern, but two random mistakes that have nothing to do with each other, and all the other work checking out just fine, doesn't make a pattern.

Pressing the issue when it's just a random mistake here or there is not good management, it falls more along the lines of "trying to teach a pig to sing". (I.e., wastes the time of the person initiating the effort, and annoys the target of the effort.)

[bramblekite.livejournal.com]

I couldn't agree with you more. If there's a consistent mistake getting made most of the time, there's a training issue. Two random screw ups out of a hundred seems like pretty good work to me. But I ain't the boss of nothin'.