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CityGal
10-26-2006, 12:56 PM
All the positions at my company are run as an assembly line, so if one person/department misses something the other one can hopefully catch it. The first person who wrote up the case information missed three valuable things. The person who took it after her caught the missing information but either forgot to tell the first person or didn’t make it known to anyone else who might be working on the case. Once the case got to me I was still basing my information on what the first person had written up. I missed the ‘signs’ the second person had written. So now I realized that I messed up a lot of stuff and ordered things I didn’t need to. The whole case is sort of messed up because a lot of money was wasted….not too much but a good amount. Should I confess to my boss and let her know that I caught this or just let the other person know what happened? Would this look bad in my part if I come clean with my boss? I mean two of the missed items were there for me to see. It seems like the majority of the fault falls on me because the second person did catch some of it and wrote the correct information on it. If I come clean would that place me in a bad situation? I don’t want to get anyone in trouble let alone myself. Is there a way of coming clean without getting myself in too much trouble? I already got a formal warning about two months ago so I def. don’t want to do anything to make it worse.

g8ergal83
11-06-2006, 04:50 PM
go to your boss and tell them that you missed the information, but upon review, you caught it. because you're the 3rd person, you shouldnt be in as much trouble, if any, as the 1st person who DEFINITELY missed it, or the 2nd person who made the notes or whatever which were obviously not in the best place for the next person to see it. and why didnt the 2nd person make the corrections? thats not good, either. just explain the thing how you ordered stuff but you can cancel the order (hopefully?) and you wanted to bring it to his/her attention that there was a mis-communication along the line. it should look somewhat good for you because you actually caught it and did something about it, rather than the other 2 who did practically nothing.