I just assume I’m going to be fired at any moment for no reason. So when I fuck up its almost a relief. Like finally I have a reason, I fucked up, they’ll fire me for this, I’m finally done. But they don’t. And then fire me months later during quarterly budget cuts.
Parachute packing is a tough job.
I work in Payroll and want to move to IT largely for this reason. My ADHD is so fucking bad.
I can confidently say moving to IT will not make this go away
I’m in IT. Made a mistake so bad last week that I AM this meme, was literally updating my resume.
Me and another guy got what we were looking at mixed up and decided it was safe to delete an account we had been aiming to kill. So I deleted it. Bit later and people are popping all over Slack, “Customer reports they’re not getting their report emails.”
Holy shit. We had to do a crash upgrade rollout to use the proper account. Meanwhile, my dumbass is watching all the activity going, “Huh. Wonder what that’s all about.”
That shouldn’t make you lose your job though, unless you work in a really shitty place. Own it, recover from backup, bring the account back up to date, then everyone has a bit of a laugh at your expense until next time it happens. Small inconvenience for the customer, who quite rightly complains about it, but they’ll get over it. Absolutely not a big deal.
If you haven’t got backups then it’s not you that should get fired but the backup guy, unless of course you ARE the backup guy.
