I've never had to do this before but someone's cocked up in a pretty massive way that's really pissed off one of the clients where I work and I'm sort of in a position where only I know about it so far, others will find out about it sooner or later and action needs to be taken to stop it happening again. So I think I'm in a situation where I can't not mention it. But I feel utterly terrible.
Plus I don't think she's done anything wrong per se, simply not understood how the system worked. But in any case I feel really bad. I usually do absolutely everything I can to not have to "grass" on colleagues but I don't think I can avoid it this time.
Has anyone else ever had to report other people's cock-ups? Did you feel massively guilty too?
I fucking love it
Do it anonymously, it makes it even more fun.
yeah i do it all the time
but they are all in the nidia office so i dont have to look them in the eye after ive landed them in the shit
i meant
india
you don't work for Jewson do you?
he's got the jewson lot
Can you not explain it to her first?
That's what I'd do. If it's just not understanding the system, she hasn't really done anything wrong. So there shouldn't be a problem with you saying to her what's happened and explaining that _________ (your boss) needs to know about it.
I was going to do that too anyway.
and when I mention it to my boss I'll probably not mention her by name and present it as a flaw in the system as a whole, which it sort of is.
But it'll still come out who it is and I'll still feel bad.
You shouldn't
Because if you tell her what's happened and then tell them, that's not grassing. If you'd gone to your boss and said 'miss, miss, _________ messed everything up - are you going to sack her now?', that would be out of order, but what you'd be doing would just be saying something that happened with the knowledge of the person that did it.
The annoying thing about all this is I know full well I'll get the blame.
I'm doing this completely in the knowledge that I'll do my best to not make it sound like it was her fault, she'll then pass the buck to her supervisor and the supervisor'll pass the buck to me.
So fuck knows why I'm going so out my way to not get her into trouble. But I am going to go out my way not to get her into trouble anyway...
That's basically my entire job
Getting people in trouble. Because I reconcile the tills.
The thing I really don't like about it is that I know there are other people stealing far more money than the odd tenner, but in smarter ways, ie. not putting transactions through the till.
The woman I mainly have to snitch on is widely known to be in an abusive relationship, (we think he tells her to steal the money).
Never feel guilty
people make mistakes. What's important is identifying why it's happened and how it can not happen again, not blaming whoever was involved.
Focus on the cock-up, not the person who made the cock-up, and there's no problem
Excellent - that was the plan...
in my IT department
the minute something goes wrong people randomly start pointing the finger of blame, its completely unneccesary, just deal with the facts, like JustJay says its about the cock up, not the cocker upper..
She didn't understand the system?
Fuck the system!
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Depends
if it's a salesman I relish getting them in trouble. Agreeing 60 payment terms indeed. Wankers, the fucking lot of them.