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[–] RacerX@lemm.ee 45 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Always skeptical of people that don't own up to mistakes. Would much rather they own it and speak to what they learned.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 27 points 10 months ago

This is what I was told when I started work. If you make a mistake, just admit to it. They most likely won't punish you for it if it wasn't out of pure negligence

[–] chameleon@kbin.social 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's difficult because you have a 50/50 of having a manager that doesn't respect mistakes and will immediately get you fired for it (to the best of their abilities), versus one that considers such a mistake to be very expensive training.

I simply can't blame people for self-defense. I interned at a 'non-profit' where there had apparently been a revolving door of employees being fired for making entirely reasonable mistakes and looking back at it a dozen years later, it's no surprise that nobody was getting anything done in that environment.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

Incredibly short-sighted, especially for a nonprofit. You just spent some huge amount of time and money training a person to never make that mistake again, why would you throw that investment away?

[–] tquid@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago