Breached confidentiality at work and feel guilty. Any steps I should take?
I recently started a new student job in my masters program. through my job I have access to some other students grades. I saw a lot of my peers bad and good grades and told myself I’d keep this all super private.
but I made the dumb mistake of telling my best friend in the program 3 peoples grades who were doing well (e.g: “X got 4 As which explains their job at xyx, Y got good grades too a couple As, Z got a bad grade but also some really good grades). We are in a really competitive program and the topic of grades comes up a lot and I guess in the moment I didn’t think too much before sharing these grades. I didn’t share any of my peers grades who were doing badly but I know it’s just as much of a breach to have shared those who were doing well.
I talked to my friend and told her it was my mistake to tell her and I trust she won’t share it but I feel so guilty and don’t know what I can do. I feel like I broke my own trust and I know from now on I’ll be very very careful with the privilege I have through any job. I just can’t move on because I keep worrying about this. I don’t want it to come up but don’t know if there’s something I should do to amend my mistake?