Made my first big, client-facing mistake today. Almost made it a year without one, but alas.
Embarrassed and nervous about fallout, especially in the time of layoffs. Say a little prayer for me.

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Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it seems.

Learn from it, apply it going forward, and you’ll be better for it.

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Good advice. You're thinking about it more than anyone else is.

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Our principal who art in NYC, hallowed be thy LinkedIn network. Thy budget run, the deliverables come, in the office or the airport lounge. Give ACN this forgiveness, because they say it will never happen again and they definitely learned from it.

Rock over London, rock on Chicago, amen.

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Amen. 🙏

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Listen, I have done some absolutely stupid shit in my 30+ years. Just own it, apologize, we are all just trying to survive the crazy. Never hide anything or lie or blame others for something you did / it will all be fine.

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K well what happened

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This post got shared with the client. 99 shares? Wow.

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C2, why’d you have to share

It happens. Don’t sweat it. You’ll be fine 😁

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Just say - “bruh, the ‘rona....am I right?’

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It happens . Don’t kill yourself

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Needed this tbh thanks buddy

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Own it and you’ll be fine. Try to cover it up or push the blame and it’s goodbye.

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the VP of HR at a firm i worked for accidentally emailed out an excel doc containing all employees’ names, addresses, phone numbers, and SSNs... to the entire firm.

no big deal. just kidding, she was fired!

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First off... happens to everyone. How big was the mistake?

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At least u didn’t expose confidential client data.

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As long as you learned from it that’s all that matters, sounds like you didn’t violate CDP so just chalk it up as a learning experience and grow from it. We’ve all been there, some more so, some less so...but most people on here can relate.

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Sent an email to some people I shouldn’t have. No huge secrets or anything but not a great look.
Haha idk how much I can divulge without outing myself, but suffice it to say my boss let me know it was a mistake. Nothing catastrophic but I still feel dumb and embarrassed.

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I was pretty low on sleep, and called the VP of IT the wrong name multiple times during our first meeting. He let me know on a very crowded call. Now we’re buddies.

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Decade ago in another life I let a fortune 100 company’s insurance expire. It was a non-mission critical part of their risk, and arguably stupid my company let me alone do it alone. Owned I was an idiot. Felt like shit. It was fixed. Got a big bonus that uear

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Anyone die? You’ll be fine...it’s how we all learn.

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At my old company, the new comp manager emailed the c-suite salary plans (base, LTI, bonus, perks) for the year to a low level employee who had the same name as the CHRO. 😂. It was her first week. She didn’t get fired.

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