How frequently do you screw up at work? I'm wondering if it's "normal" to screw up at work with the frequency that I am, and I should cut myself some slack. Alternately, I'm considering the possibility that it's a big problem.
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posted by silly me
on Mar 26, 2013 -
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Relationship fall-out: How do you deal with knowing that the person's friends hate you for how you've hurt them?
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posted by Autumn
on Dec 19, 2012 -
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How do normal, happy couples support each other in a non-dysfunctional, healthy relationship? Not surprisingly, longish snowflake details inside.
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posted by anonymous
on Dec 13, 2012 -
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Moving in with my SO - but worried that I'll end up in the unhappy situation my parents were in. What do you do when you didn't grow up with a positive example of marriage/co-habitation?
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posted by anonymous
on Sep 5, 2012 -
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I am making stupid mistakes at work and I need a strategy to help myself overcome them. Sorry for the length.
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posted by anonymous
on Aug 9, 2012 -
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A printout was inadvertently glued to a copy of a historical photo. How do I get it off?
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posted by johnofjack
on Jul 23, 2012 -
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You procrastinate. You're disorganized. You make multiple careless mistakes weekly. How did you go from being a Bad Employee to a good one who actually contributes positively to your organization?
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posted by anonymous
on Jun 9, 2012 -
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Was reading about microchips that are designed to allow a few mistakes (known as '
Sloppy Chips'), and pondering equivalent kinds of 'coding' errors and entropy in biological systems. Can a fair comparison be made between the two?
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posted by 0bvious
on Jun 5, 2012 -
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It would seem that I've f'd up, big time. Now what? How do you move forward when you're fairly sure you've made a bad decision and can't turn back. (details inside)
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posted by farce majeure
on May 7, 2012 -
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Workers at this one convenience store always charge slightly more than the stated price. What is the scam here?
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posted by johnofjack
on May 2, 2012 -
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We had a recent thread on things really poor people do when they come into some money, and now I'm curious whether there are analogous mistakes at every level of society. What sort of mistakes would be made by, say, a poor college student taking his first office job, by a middle-class man marrying into old money, by shoestring startup folk after a successful IPO/buyout? I'm interested in particular in sharp transitions, rather than, say, slowly climbing from the mail room to the board room over the course of a lifetime.
posted by d. z. wang
on Mar 29, 2012 -
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The guy I am dating has unusual tendencies, is this a part of his ADD? Or his quirkiness? How should I approach the subject?
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posted by Chelsaroo650
on Feb 13, 2012 -
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I've screwed things up and it is finally catching up with me. My job situation is not good and my future is looking bleak. I know that it's my own fault. I need to fix it but I have no idea where to start.
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posted by anonymous
on Oct 29, 2011 -
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I have a serious problem with being seen to be intellectually 'wrong'. I need ways to get over it
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posted by anonymous
on Jul 24, 2011 -
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If I have made a mistake at work (or in general), I am much, much more likely to make another mistake soon afterwards. How can I get focused and correct a problem without making yet more mistakes?
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posted by Elysum
on Jun 2, 2011 -
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After growing up in a VERY authoritarian family environment, I lack a sense of proportion when it comes to when I've
really screwed up bad. I'm in therapy but would like some further advice.
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posted by anonymous
on Apr 14, 2011 -
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Are grammatical errors more frequent in English than in other languages? What about spelling? Do foreign language have as many substitution errors as English? Do ewe speak a pear of foreign languages or more and what are you're experiences of these kinds of errors? Watt do there grammar Nazis do?
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posted by sien
on Mar 28, 2011 -
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I'm a computer science and biochem major about to start a software development internship at a high-frequency trading firm. What are the classic mistakes you see inexperienced geeks make in a professional environment, especially a financial-sector/"business" place, and how can I avoid them? What can I do this summer to impress my supervisors and maybe get my foot in the door for a full-time job after graduation?
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posted by d. z. wang
on Feb 28, 2011 -
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What is it called when you make a mistake because you are thinking faster than you can speak/type/etc.?
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posted by caminovereda
on Sep 30, 2010 -
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When you make a real mistake, how do you deal with it? How do you deal with yourself and keep from feeling super guilty?
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posted by inatizzy
on Aug 19, 2010 -
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Yesterday, my girlfriend of two years bought a puppy that, due to circumstances, she really shouldn't have. What now?
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posted by anonymous
on Jul 20, 2010 -
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A book I edited shipped with significant errors because of my negligence. How bad is it?
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posted by anonymous
on Feb 5, 2010 -
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When is an individual most likely to make a serious mistake (say, on the job or at some task involving risk)? I recall research that suggesting a "seven year rule" that after seven years of doing something, one has acquired enough mastery over the job or task or skill that complacence begins to creep in -- and with it, vigilance drops and disaster ensues. Any leads much appreciated.
posted by adamrobinson
on Sep 16, 2009 -
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Will my credit ever recover? I was trying to do better.. got a job, paid on time.. But I got rejected for a credit line increase today. Mind you, my current limit is already only $300!
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posted by anonymous
on Jul 13, 2009 -
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What to do (if anything) about a kid (Kindergarten) who cannot deal with failure/losing?
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posted by unixrat
on May 23, 2008 -
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A few months ago I saw an article that listed 900+ mistakes that Fox News had made over the previous year. I thought I saw it on Mefi but I have looked everywhere and can not find it. Any help would be appreciated.
posted by Mr_Zero
on May 12, 2008 -
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My W-2 says I paid taxes to both Indiana and California. However, I did not live or work in Indiana at any time during the year 2007. How do I go about getting this fixed?
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posted by mto
on Feb 4, 2008 -
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I'm a native speaker of English but I pronounce some words incorrectly. What other words am I pronouncing wrong?
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posted by pravit
on Dec 30, 2007 -
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I don't use blogger, but I post comments on a blog that does. I happen to run my own blog (impressed?), which I used to link through Blogger's "URL" field. Apparently Google has removed that field from the commenting form. Instead it goes to my "Blogger Profile" which of course is empty, and even if were full, it still couldn't link to my self-hosted blog. What is Google thinking? Anyhow, is OpenID my friend?
posted by apetpsychic
on Dec 13, 2007 -
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How can I cope when I make mistakes? I'm starting to feel I'm failing in my career, and am very isolated. Warning - long.
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posted by anonymous
on Nov 27, 2007 -
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Is there anything one can do to fight a medical bill that appears to be incorrect? I visited the emergency room last fall. I paid a $100 copay at the time of service that appears to have never been applied to my bill. Despite several calls to the ostensible hospital billing office (really a cube-farm in Texas) pointing out some discrepancies, they've left the clock ticking, sent threatening notices, and are apparently determined to slash my credit rating if I don't pay *now*. What can I do?
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posted by weston
on Jul 24, 2006 -
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I have many memories of people in movies, cartoons, etc. who while taking a photograph with a view camera remained underneath the darkcloth while making the exposure. However, the film holder should be cutting off the light to the groundglass and therefore they shouldn't be able to see any image. Is this just due to the ignorance of the movie makers or is there some reason why they are depicted this way?
posted by Bengston
on Aug 12, 2005 -
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Can anyone provide an example in which an author creates a work that is later shown to have an fairly obvious flaw or factual error, that the author eventually acknowledges? I'm more specifically looking for the author's reaction, reply or excuse when presented with this error. The older, the better.
posted by milovoo
on Sep 1, 2004 -
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I'm proofreading an OCR file of a 25-year-old book, and after I fixed it up the company (whose history it is) said I had to put back in all the original (non-OCR) mistakes (words spelled wrong, incorrect tenses, text inconsistencies, semicolons used miserably) for copyright reasons. I told them it's their copyright, and they can do whatever they want with it. No, they say, it's a historical record. It's also their money, so I'll do whatever they want . . . but are they right? Are misspelled words and poor punctuation a copyright issue?
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posted by LeLiLo
on Apr 28, 2004 -
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