Yup...This poster was made for Alexa Rogers! I literally screw up every single day. It can be something silly like tripping over nothing, running into a twirling door with a cute guy when I was supposed to wait my turn, farting in public, hugging the wrong person, etc. The list can and will go on forever. I am cursed.
Today at my job I made a pretty bad mistake- one of my bosses asked me to coordinate a meeting for her and one of the big Vice Presidents of our company. For some reason, I thought she meant that she wanted me to meet with him...Ya I know, i'm an idiot. So I set this meeting up with him- just him and I. Then, she found out about it and was like, "Why would you do that? Are you a recruiter?" I replied "No" she replied "And what exactly would you have talked to him about in that meeting?" My face turned red and I shook my head- not knowing what to say. She replied, "Ya, let's save each other from looking stupid." Gosh! I almost died! I made a bone head move- she did save me though because seriously I don't even know the guy and would have walked into his office and been like, "so what's going on here?" Anyway- I learned to ask for verification when I don't understand.
Then, if things couldn't get any worse- I was in a conference call with some of my other team members in another state and we were waiting for a person named Jeri to attend our team meeting. And I, on the other end of the line, asked, so what does Jeri do? does she work in hr? Then a man's voice on the other end said, "Ya this is Jeri, I'm a guy and I don't work HR but I work for the union!"
Ha- its funny though. I have actually come to enjoy making little blurps because sometimes they provide for a good story and because I learn something from them. Some bigger mistakes I have made are not so funny- they are things that hurt me and hurt others in the past but I am still glad that I made them because I learned from them and am a better person today and hope that others can learn from me and avoid the mistakes that I have made. One thing that I have learned is to make a change after your mistake- bounce back and show the world that you will get back up. AND forgive yourself- you can't be perfect, can't win them all, can't exceed every test, workout, race, or job duty but you can always overcome.
