March was a difficult month for me at work. I've either been making mistakes or mistakes I made in the past decided to become visible. The errors have been minor to middle-grade ones. The minor ones hurt my self-confidence at most, but the middle-grade ones involved making other people look inconsiderate/uninformed. I've sent out a couple apology emails. One of the mistakes involved a doctor yelling at another employee. That one made me feel the worst. The short story is that I had wrong information, which I passed on to someone and she passed on to someone else. Between the time I found that information and the mistake happened (an announcement went out with this wrong information), the right information actually came to my inbox. However, my brain cells were not working and it didn't occur to me that the two pieces of information didn't match...even as I was talking about one of them aloud to a coworker.
Guilt hung over me like an overcast day. I felt like I could have prevented it had I been thinking. I told the story to several people, including those involved in the blowup, and no one blamed me. It still took me a few days to get over it.
It just goes to show that when you think you're on top of your game, you still mess up and it can be the worst. At least my profession doesn't hold the physical lives of others in my hands. I would have a hard time dealing with those kind of mistakes.
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