We can all admit that we are human and that we make mistakes. I've made a few as I have been trying to learn new desk procedures. I can attribute a good part of it to a gap in training. Another good part of it, I can say, is my tendancy to be hasty and work in a hurry. I miss things, or maybe I forget it's the year 2009 and not 2008. It ends up being a really big deal.
But say I followed a procedure I was trained on that has me be reactionary as opposed to proactive on something. Because we want to make sure we get the correct funds before following through with the next step.
The supervisor of that person sets me aside and contradicts procedures that were agreed to months ago and tells me to be more proactive and just do the transaction. This turns out to be the incorrect advice...but still in giving this advice, I was complimented that I was hired as an accountant because I was intelligent and expected to take time to think and be proactive. And that they could have just as easily hired a 17 year old kid if they wanted someone to just react to everything that comes through. Way to knock me back 10 years. BTW, they do not hire "kids" here, it was just the example I was given.
I swallow my pride way too much.
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