My Big OOPS! by Alyssa
I had my first Oops today... and HOW embarrassing! This is what happened:
The first of every month, through email, CRS likes to send out what they call JUST Updates. It is basically a flyer updating colleges and universities about different topics to look out for, get involved in or learn about. On the flyer are snippets of information, links to go to and ways to get involved or receive more information. I have done three so far: Fair trade chocolate, PEPFAR and today I created one about the ongoing war in Colombia.
My flyer was the colors of the Colombian flag and it was very nice and eye catching. On it I had links and different events to look out for and get involved in. It was an overall nice piece and everyone in the office loved it. So, we sent it out on our email list to at least 30 different universities.
This is where my heart stopped. My supervisor immediately got an email saying " Don't you know how to spell Colombia?"
Here, I had spelled Colombia with a U! Columbia! WHAT WAS I THINKING? I panicked and could not apologize enough to my supervisor for making us look bad. We immediately recalled back the emails, hoping no one else read them or picked up on my glaring mistake, and fixed it and sent it back out again... this time with everything spelled correctly.
How embarrassing. The last time I made such a huge mistake was when I did a summer internship at a campground. It was my responsibility to create a scavenger hunt list for the kids. One of the items the children had to find was a t-shirt. Well, I handed out all of the lists to about 100 children and families, and all the sudden I got hell from the mothers. Here I spelled shirt wrong. I wrote SHIT instead!!!!
This just goes to show that you cannot always rely on spell-check to pick up everything, because even though it may not be spelled wrong, still does not make everything correct. However, if you ever find yourself in that kind of situation, you cannot panic. Both times I had apologized, admitted to my mistake, and then quickly take care of the problem before it because too big an issue.
Today I realized that I am not perfect and everyone makes mistakes. At the time it seems like the biggest thing in the world, but 3 hours later I can laugh looking back at it. I got off easy, sometimes those kinds of mistakes can cost a person a job; however I am under the belief that everything will go smoothly if you act smooth.
The first of every month, through email, CRS likes to send out what they call JUST Updates. It is basically a flyer updating colleges and universities about different topics to look out for, get involved in or learn about. On the flyer are snippets of information, links to go to and ways to get involved or receive more information. I have done three so far: Fair trade chocolate, PEPFAR and today I created one about the ongoing war in Colombia.
My flyer was the colors of the Colombian flag and it was very nice and eye catching. On it I had links and different events to look out for and get involved in. It was an overall nice piece and everyone in the office loved it. So, we sent it out on our email list to at least 30 different universities.
This is where my heart stopped. My supervisor immediately got an email saying " Don't you know how to spell Colombia?"
Here, I had spelled Colombia with a U! Columbia! WHAT WAS I THINKING? I panicked and could not apologize enough to my supervisor for making us look bad. We immediately recalled back the emails, hoping no one else read them or picked up on my glaring mistake, and fixed it and sent it back out again... this time with everything spelled correctly.
How embarrassing. The last time I made such a huge mistake was when I did a summer internship at a campground. It was my responsibility to create a scavenger hunt list for the kids. One of the items the children had to find was a t-shirt. Well, I handed out all of the lists to about 100 children and families, and all the sudden I got hell from the mothers. Here I spelled shirt wrong. I wrote SHIT instead!!!!
This just goes to show that you cannot always rely on spell-check to pick up everything, because even though it may not be spelled wrong, still does not make everything correct. However, if you ever find yourself in that kind of situation, you cannot panic. Both times I had apologized, admitted to my mistake, and then quickly take care of the problem before it because too big an issue.
Today I realized that I am not perfect and everyone makes mistakes. At the time it seems like the biggest thing in the world, but 3 hours later I can laugh looking back at it. I got off easy, sometimes those kinds of mistakes can cost a person a job; however I am under the belief that everything will go smoothly if you act smooth.
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