Messed up at work, need advice...

Repeat a line from the Centipad ep of Southpark, the one where cartman tells his "mom" to pretty him up with lipstick because he should look pretty before he gets ****** :D
 
At least your supervisor didnt sneak up behind you causing your internal scared reaction to fling out your elbow and crack him straight in the chest... (he cant breath properly still a week after it happened) like i did :( i just grovelled put my hands up explained the whole thing and got away with a stern telling off, could have been much worse
 
As others have said - go prepared - think on your feet, but do not accept belittling bullying - you're not at school.

The very best of luck sir :)
 
Your choice of words although not really professional have highlighted that there shiny new system might have some issues.

I would be prepared to defend your actions and explain why you think the system is bad as well as being prepared to admit you made a mistake in send the email to everyone.
 
THREE bollockings for a trivial mistake on your part? You know you did wrong, they know you know you did wrong, why keep going on about it?
 
Matt-Page said:
I'm due an almighty bollocking from the big boss, and I accept that. What I want to know is how do I approach this? I want to go in there with a bit of a speech, game plan, etc. Anyone else been in a similar situation?
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Just be honest - it is an opinion you hold that you merely intended to send to your friend, you never intended to reply all.

Its an accident tbh.. it was a silly one caused by your negligence and it doesn't make you look good but its still an accident. If for some reason he does bring up the system you were criticizing then then perhaps have something constructive to say in order to support your view otherwise this is surely just an e-mail faux pas and should have been dealt with by your immediate superior. The fact that you've got three levels of management who all want to have a pop at you over this (an e-mail mistake) doesn't make it seem like you're working in a very good organisation.
 
Myn said:
Go in, apologise and state that although you never meant to send it to everyone, it was still an inappropriate e-mail to be sending regarding company software. If he gives you a chance, proceed to calmly go through the faults of the software, and then admit that you should have sought the correct forum for these views.

Good luck :)
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balls to that tbh...

we had some naff 3rd party software - I felt obliged to slate it in politically correct terms to the CTO and to my manager, I also slagged it off in less PC terms to co-workers. If something is **** and you feel a different approach/different product is needed and you've got some decent reasoning for it then stand up and make the argument for it. Senior management don't deliberately want to mess people around and should generally be open to feed back. Unless there is some high level political reason for choosing something (like the private equity firm that owns your company says you must use company X that they also own) then people can be flexible about changing stuff.
 
Slightly off topic, I know how you feel OP

We had an email from a customer, and we used to change the title bar to who was gonna reply. So i put. Deano reply to this customer, otherwise i will shank ya!

He replied to customer

An Hour later she replied. At the end she put Ps Hope you avoided the shanking lol

Boss saw it and had a written warning :(
 
All you can do is apologise but I know 100% that if I had made a similar mistake my bosses would be asking why I thought the system was crap.
 
TBH if I were your employer I would be more worried with the amount of time you spend on internet forums during working hours!
 
BringTheRain said:
Slightly off topic, I know how you feel OP

We had an email from a customer, and we used to change the title bar to who was gonna reply. So i put. Deano reply to this customer, otherwise i will shank ya!

He replied to customer

An Hour later she replied. At the end she put Ps Hope you avoided the shanking lol

Boss saw it and had a written warning :(
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A written warning because someone else sent something inappropriate to a customer?

Your boss needs to grow a sense of humour in any case.
 
Tell them to stop being a bunch of pandering nancy boys. Don't bend over for them.

I'm sure they can't fire you for something like this, if they do - tribunal :D
 
No no no...Go in with an "you're a bunch of pedantic morons and this is a waste of time" attitude and call their bluff. "Sack me if you dare".

Honestly, it's a great feeling. Yes I got sacked but what I did was arguably a lot worse :o
 
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