Made a mistake at work during an emotionally heavy week how do you bounce back from this?
Last Tuesday, I accidentally made a mistake at work. I uploaded a corrupted file, which caused certain data changes to fail. As a result, several service calls weren't coming through.
I ended up spending my day off fixing this together with a colleague. However, I later discovered that part of my colleague's solution was incorrect, which would have caused the calls to fail again. I've spent yesterday and today manually adjusting everything to ensure the process remains stable.
Honestly, I feel terrible. It's already been a very difficult week for me because it's the four-year anniversary of my father's passing. I've lost my confidence and I'm afraid to touch anything else right now. I'm waiting until tomorrow to talk to my manager and update him on the situation specifically that the problem we thought was solved required more work. I'm really dreading the conversation.
How do you guys get over that "guilty" feeling after a mistake? Any advice on how to handle this with my manager when I'm already feeling mentally drained?