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Stressful as fuck. Messed up slightly at work but over catastrophised it in my head which just made it all worse.
I did that recently, and then did the stupid thing of telling others of how stupid I am.
Pro-Tip: Everyone fucks up, the best thing to do in this post-truth world is to literally go play golf and pretend the fuckup wasn't wholly yours ^["where was the initial feedback? the oversight? who validated your changes?"], and if they try to give you grief over it pretend they're giving you a light hazing and move on to actionable points to rectify it, whilst slightly passive-aggressively telegraphing that anyone getting emotional over it has never spilled milk before.
It's shitty and dishonest and you'll feel like a mixture of Donald Trump and Larry David, but it genuinely does work in getting people off your back
We've all done it. Best you can do is learn from it.
Whenever it happens at our work, everyone piles in with their own funny fuck ups.
Dropping a bollock is half the fun of work.
I suppose what makes it tolerable enough is whether you've got a line manager to turn to and say "here boss, I've made a fuckup here, I'm away to unfuck it now" without it turning into a mega drama.
Unless you're the manager who has to unfuck the problem that someone else did... which was initially caused by someone else who fucked somethingelse up, and the more senior managers just say: sort it out.
But, then, find another manager who you can have a laugh with and unwind...