Pulled a borderline all-nighter last night (slept 2 hours) and had an intense workload today as well. Submitted my final assignment for today around 9pm and was so tired I completely missed one of the docs I was supposed to review that was just sitting in the email. I want to crawl into a hole and die. Been working something like 34 of the last 36 hours and I feel like all anyone will remember is this fuckup.

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Just say “sorry I worked 34/36 hours on another project and i missed this.” I miss things once in a while with normal hours!

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Can you just amend it? If it didn’t go out to the client (like the real client, not the partner) I would just try to fix the miss and leave it on a good note. That sucks tho and I’m sorry.

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Oh seriously don’t sweat it. I know it’s hard to accept in the moment but it’s almost certainly not going to be a big deal

You're human! Stahp already.

Disclose your workload over past 36 hours. Most associates complain/worry about issues that can be resolved by communicating.

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