How do you guys handle mistakes? Kind of made an embarrassing mistake at work today. Corrected it, will move on, but just curious how you guys handle it and whether or not this is even a big deal.
Hey everyone, today at work I presented design charts for a problem I was trying to solve and I really made a boneheaded mistake. I had been sick earlier this week and ran out of my fuel (Red Bull) so I made some errors that I feel were uncharacteristic when presenting my design charts. I forgot that to hit desired endpoints using a command line client, you needed to make requests out to that service and not just lazily call something in the server itself and recreate objects. This obviously made me look pretty stupid in front of everyone, and I'm getting a chance to redo my charts but idk I'm just frustrated with myself because I know I'm better than that. I also sometimes get a little self conscious because I am around some pretty exceptionally talented people at my workplace (NASA) so sometimes I feel like that makes me a target and people start thinking that I'm not cut out to do this. How do you guys deal with this? Obviously everyone makes some pretty boneheaded errors sometimes and my process had been thrown off a bit. My boss is letting me represent charts tomorrow but I still hate this feeling. It's the same feeling I used to get when I was in band even though I was honestly really good, but people used to really REALLY underestimate me. It did fuel me, but I still hate the feeling overall.
Posted Apr 1, 2026, 8:28 PM UTC