How do you deal with constantly being expected to deliver perfection?

Small mistakes, ultimately the result of being understaffed and breaking the review process to speed up timelines, make me feel like garbage.

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Are you expecting yourself to deliver perfection, or is someone else expecting that of you?

You are not defined by your mistakes. It sounds like you’re in a tough position based on tight timing and understaffing; does your company have plans to staff up and fix these timelines to prevent burnout?

Clients and my boss are expecting perfection. I am definitely not of that mindset.

They also never let things go - they will remind you of a mistake you made for months and months after, even if it was not significant. It’s super demotivating.

We’ve hired one person, but they are brand new, entry level, and training them has drained even more of my time and I’m finding myself not being able to catch every single mistake they make as they learn. Some things just slip through cause I’m drained.

(Which I am not blaming them at all, they absolutely deserve the space to learn)

I’m just tired of the lack of understanding for the situation and not sure how to proceed.

This new employee is also my first direct report and *I’m* not being given space to learn by my boss. Sigh 😩

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