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OT
Saturday, October 29, 2005
It is a Saturday and I need to work. It is torturous having to wake up at 7am. Given a choice to do OT on s Sat or a public holiday, without doubt, I chose the former. I bet the feeling of reporting for work on a PUBLIC holiday is even worse. The lab was exceedingly quiet. There was no one except me and Callien, a colleague of mine. I perked up when I received a sms from my senior who was nice enough to ask me if everything is alright. Everything went perfectly well for the 1st 5 samples until the next 5. I made a cardinal mistake. These samples happened to belong to a project handled by one of the top management ppl. I shudder to think of the consequence. I may have been unwell and out of sorts, but there was really nothing to excuse my oversight. I honestly think I had sealed my own fate with this scatterbrained oversight. Having said that, this is a massive crater created in my subconscious as a result of fatigue and its subsequent carelessness. Thankfully, my department manager was kind enough not to launch into a tirade at me and ameliorate my carelessness. After what has transpired, I found myself licking the wounds of regret.
“Forcus” I entreated! One mistake does not make somebody much less a beginner, incompetent. In fact, just as the great scientist Einstein once said, I reckon making mistakes means
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