Anonymous wrote:Do it now and offer to pay the $1,000.

Pfft, I would walk off the job before offering to pay $1,000 even if it was my screw up. How would you even know if your employer planned to fire you after docking your pay?

Anonymous wrote:Do it now and offer to pay the $1,000.

LOL. Americans truly have no limits in their bootlicking capabilities.

Op here, I had my first great night of sleep in about 2 weeks! Thanks to the helpful posters I decided I didn't want to go into the weekend still waking up sick to my stomach or searching for solutions or wondering how disappointed my boss would be. She was very understanding. Ive worked for them for nearly 20 years and this is only the second time I've made a significant error; I think that played in my favor.

To the ones thinking I was hiding something, it easnt a matter of hiding. It was do it by my first deadline or do it by year end. We'll eat the penalty of course, my client should not pay for my mistake.

Thank you helpful posters for giving me encouragement to get it over with!!

Op, did you do it?

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Anonymous wrote:The longer you wait, the worse it is. You may have gotten in some trouble for the actual incident. But you'll likely be in more trouble for hiding it for so long. Don't be surprised if you're fired. You've proven yourself to be unreliable and irresponsible. Not for the original mess up, but for not fessing up to it.

Why the eyeroll? Hiding the mistake could get the OP fired.

Dramatic much? I don't think anyone said anything about hiding. I'm sorry you've had such horrible work situations. Or you are a pita boss yourself.

OPs known for 2 weeks and still hasn't fessed up; I'd say yes she's hiding it at this point. And no I've had no horrible work situations.

Been there, OP. I took over a matter from someone who left and just didn't register something very obvious, and very important, that had to be done by a certain time. There was no excuse at all except that I screwed up, and anything I could have tried to make up, had I been so inclined, would have been obviously implausible. I was upfront, took full responsibility, and busted my ass to make up for it. My boss told me later I looked like I was going to throw up when I told him. Which is exactly what I felt like, along with cold sweat and other signs of complete panic. It sucked, big time.

On the plus side, the way my boss handled it really revealed a lot about him, and made me like him even more. These things are about character, on both sides. Good luck to you.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The longer you wait, the worse it is. You may have gotten in some trouble for the actual incident. But you'll likely be in more trouble for hiding it for so long. Don't be surprised if you're fired. You've proven yourself to be unreliable and irresponsible. Not for the original mess up, but for not fessing up to it.

Why the eyeroll? Hiding the mistake could get the OP fired.

Dramatic much? I don't think anyone said anything about hiding. I'm sorry you've had such horrible work situations. Or you are a pita boss yourself.

You really should have told your boss immediately.

Good luck.

Do it now and offer to pay the $1,000.

Do it! You will feel 1000x better.

Now. Just do it, with apologies.

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Anonymous wrote:The longer you wait, the worse it is. You may have gotten in some trouble for the actual incident. But you'll likely be in more trouble for hiding it for so long. Don't be surprised if you're fired. You've proven yourself to be unreliable and irresponsible. Not for the original mess up, but for not fessing up to it.

Why the eyeroll? Hiding the mistake could get the OP fired.