Hi all. It's been a while. So much for writing more. Though, this is still more than I used to. I had kind of a shitty work situation and I kind of feel like a piece of shit. Here goes nothing.
First: I totally admit when I make mistakes. Usually willingly and without provocation. I am a TERRIBLE liar. Not only is it obvious when I try, it rarely ever occurs to me to lie about something. In addition, I lack censorship, and only after I've blurted something stupid out do I realize how stupid it really was.
That said...
I held a meeting at work today with the CEO and upper management. During said meeting, I was going down a list of parts that need to be purchased (as I am a Purchasing Associate.) One of these parts is long overdue. The CEO asks why and I tell him that the price that they are sold to our customer is much less than the price that we can buy it for and we are currently working that out with the customer. He asks why the price is so wrong. I tell him that it was quoted incorrectly to begin with. He asks why. I tell him it was human error. He asks whose error it was. I tell him that it was the person that quoted the price (it was obvious who, but I really didn't want to say it.) He asks why the mistake was made. I said the cost was $68, and I think they thought it said $0.68. At which time the person who had quoted the part got really angry at me and blamed me saying that I gave him the wrong pricing initially. I said that yes, there had been other (much less severe) instances in which that happened, but that this wasn't the case here. (The mistake he was referring to wasn't even mine, it was my colleague's, but I really didn't think it was the time to start throwing her under the bus.) At this point the CEO is angry about the mistakes and starts yelling about how they're losing us a lot of money. I'm sitting quietly at the head of the conference table, in a room full of my superiors, pinching my own arm and digging my nails into my hand to keep from having a panic attack.
Writing this out actually put this in perspective. I felt like a piece of shit for ratting out my manager, but now I see that I had no choice in the matter. I really couldn't lie about this, and in the end he tried to put the blame on me when it wasn't my fault, so in reality... he's the piece of shit! Not only that, but I really don't give a crap if they do think that I did it, because this job is shit and I don't plan on staying for long.
Hooray! I'm better now :)
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