Hi all, how do you deal with fully botching a project? I can admit that it was my fault and I should have been better. I’m so sad because now everyone has to scramble to pick up my slack. I’m so embarrassed. Just want to curl up in a ball and cry. I’m also a mediocre performer so I don’t know what this means going forward.

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SA2 - Feel free to DM if you need someone to bounce work stuff off of, if you’re in a space where you’re not comfortable asking for clarifying questions or you don’t even know where to start asking questions. I was in a position where questions were hard to ask and it inhibited my growth. I know the feeling of needing them to not know I “didn’t know what I was doing” because my position felt precarious.

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1. You are senior. Its never just your fault at that level
2. Try to change your thinking. If you messed up that probably means that you are stretching yourself to learn new things. Thats always a good thing. Look at this fail as a learning opportunity.
3. Best of us mess up badly. Every single person that's been around long enough messed up badly and had others help to remedy. Also every single one of us help to remedy others mistakes. Today its you, tomorrow it'll be someone else.
4. As ppl said above, your attitude is everything rn. Own up to it, thank people who helped you out and seek some advice on how to learn from this.
5. And lastly, don't be too hard on yourself. Shit happens and thats why we have teams and the firm to support us.

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I’m defeated about this. But reading this really helped. Many thanks!

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A senior in my team managed to corrupt his laptop just few days before closing meeting of the audit. Those days, ppl used to use laptop to store files (did not have onedrive), and the client site was at remote location which meant that patchy network connection and no way to backup on lotus notes database! I was soon to be promoted manager and had to negotiate additional week and tons of request to client personnel to re-share the data (even email pst files used to be on laptop). Long story short, 2 weeks both of us didn’t sleep and the Senior made sure that he came through by helping me produce one of the best audit reports so far! CFO of the client personally came and congratulated us and also gifted an HDD to my team member as a jest!

We have all been here and know how you’re feeling right now. In a hyper feedback environment, failure is crushing. You’ll be alright even if it doesn’t feel like it right now.

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