Stupid mistakes

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Mistake make us to learn the life.to teach and lead our kids on right way not to let them make such mistake.only died people no making mistake more.
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Don’t focus on your mistakes alone..We are just human we made lots of mistakes,failures but these will help us to grow and be a better person in the future:)

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Allow me to share my personal story as I do the same like you, end up with mistakes. In my first job I literally below server by putting a wrong connection to logic board in the seventh month, they ask me to put a resignation as the. I started new job search and in ten days got a call for an interview. In an interview I told them the truth about what happened on the job and why i was serving notice period they offered me a job with 35% hike to my surprise. After I join i continued with my mistakes with every thing I did in day to day activity, however my manager used to smile at me all the time whenever I did mistake. I dared to asked him one day as why am I not being fired despite of so many mistakes and why was I hired after such terrible incident in the last job. So the manager replied which boosted my confidence. He told me that whatever I did in my last job was a mistake which thought me a lesson I will never forget, and whatever mistake I do everyday is because I have creative mind and try to do things differently rather then doing the same routine as others do. So i asked him that I had damaged equipment and configuration plenty of time that has affected the business and productivity of the other people. He smiled again and said equipment configuration can be rearrange but your experience and efforts are priceless, though you have done damages but also you have discovered new and effective methods of doing the routine jobs in less time and he smilingly said you have this job if you continue with your mistakes, the day you stopped making mistakes don't come to office.
I still do mistakes but I love to do it now with smile and it does teaches me something new every time.

Enjoy your mistakes you will learn more than others.

I am a master of mistakes, where's that company and i will apply

Shahies: You have a rare gem of a boss - unfortunately most managers are less supportive!

In Mumbai / India

That's true... and I am thankful to Almighty.

Anyone who doesn't make mistakes, they never tried anything in their life.

Even the ones who don't do anything are making mistakes
It's in our nature....we are not GODs

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down....

the U Bend Trick

I think this varies in different varieties of English, but in British English the U Bend is the actually rather S shaped trap that goes under the sink and is half filled with water so that the stench and bacteria etc from the sewerage end does not get up to the sink.

Occasionally they get blocked with detritus from the sink, bits of cat food, toothpicks, demitasses, that kind of thing. So you unscrew (it is just hand tight) the U bend from the sink and the drainage pipe, it is now full of water, lego bricks, dead spiders etc, and of course where do you put it?

Down the sink... which you have.just... er....

(For married males in the US: You don't have them. You have a garbage removal thingy. The best thing to do with those is to put coffee grounds down it, add a bit of water, turn it on to see what happens, if you have a stepladder and a mop handy).

That's nice........some one STUPIDLY Made MISTAKE by putting irrelevant post.

My friend think of your mistakes in a way that you are different then ordinary people. You have different way of thinking you live your life in a different way, offcourse for ordinary people your differences looks like mistakes so just ignore and stop thinking wrong about it. If a driver can drive a in wrong direction(opposite direction of traffic) with utmost perfection he probably be the best driver in drift race.

Thanks

Oh Shahies
Your story is so funny that I even forgot my mistakes.

Thanks

If it's a truth or story if it's funny or not. It doesn't matter if it puts a smile on someone's face. I am glad.

Thanks

FeminineHeart wrote:

Anyone who doesn't make mistakes, they never tried anything in their life.

Show me a man who never made a mistake and I shall show you a liar.

It's the people who refuse ever to admit to their mistakes that actually are far more dangerous than those of us who do. I work on safety-critical software. We still make mistakes, it is just we have seven hundred different ways of preventing, detecting and correcting those mistakes before the software ends up in your car or microwave oven or train or aircraft. You do not employ people in that business if they cannot admit to a (rare, we hope) mistake and continue arguing that they are correct in the face of all evidence to the contrary.

I made a big mistake about nine years ago next week, I stupidly said "I do".

Still, at least we are making only two people miserable instead of four.

SimonTrew wrote:

I made a big mistake about nine years ago next week, I stupidly said "I do".

Still, at least we are making two people miserable instead of four.

Don't tell the wife that Simon

SimCityAT wrote:

Don't tell the wife that Simon

Oh, she has told me, it was the happiest day of her life. Which, logically, means that it has only been worse ever since.

I made a mistake which u can say a mistake of my life and ys I couldn’t fix it but I have to assure that I won’t repeat it again ..I been tough on myself saying how did I do something like that but I ended up saying to myself It’s a human being nature and as long as l alive I’ll make mistakes no matter how much I’ll be careful it’s a matter of being alive and I’d like try everything

I find that mistakes impact future.

If you make a mistake you are usually the more respected for owning up to the mistake than trying to hide it. Mistakes that are covered up impact lots of other people's futures. The sooner a mistake is spotted and admitted to, the sooner it can be corrected. "Sorry, I was wrong" is not actually that difficult to say, and saves a huge amount of effort correcting someone else!s cover-up years later. It is a very Hungarian thing to be ashamed that you ever made a mistake.

If you work in radio communications, e.g. if you are an airline pilot, there is one word in the vocabulary, "mistake". You call that word if you think the other end has not heard, or if you have said something wrong, or have changed your mind, you call "mistake". Then afterwards you can repeat or correct. You have one word, "mistake", and the other party then knows to ignore the previous communication and wait for  you to say again. "Mistake". One word. You do not have time to say "I'm terribly sorry but I may have said something that is factually incorrect".

But then I write safety-critical software for a living, so it is absolutely vital that there are no bugs in the software. You have all kinds of checks and balances to make sure there are no mistakes. But at the start there will be mistakes, that is why you have all the checks and balances. If I ever found out that a co-worker had hidden a mistake rather than, what he or she should do, immediately come to me and say I think I made a mistake, then that co-worker would be fired on the spot, there are people!s lives at stake, I want to know the mistakes, not have them covered up.

It always do dear… I won’t tell u to deal with it wisely, there is no rule for that. But upon my experience I’d say, don’t be tough with urself and try to listen to ur own self. What is the aim from life if u know how it works but not knowing the self being, it would ofc take that much time but at least u’ll c and know what’s the matter

Manal Essa wrote:

It always do dear… I won’t tell u to deal with it wisely, there is no rule for that. But upon my experience I’d say, don’t be tough with urself and try to listen to ur own self. What is the aim from life if u know how it works but not knowing the self being, it would ofc take that much time but at least u’ll c and know what’s the matter

Bierce in The Devil's Dictionary defines "education" as "That which reveals to the wise, and disguises from the foolish, their lack of understanding".

Yes you have to be true to yourself. Part of that is looking after the people around you, no man is an island, as Donne said. Your mistakes can hurt people, and they will hurt them all the more if you do not admit to them.  One of the reasons I am trusted is that I do not lie, so that if I get something wrong, I will say I got it wrong. That also means that when I stick to my guns and am convinced I am right, I have all the more respect because the other person is thinking "if he thought he were wrong, he would say so. He must think he is right". Sometimes even then I am wrong and the other person is right, but we are not sitting there playing games assuming that the other is a liar, we are both trying to make head or tail of a difficult problem, and between us we will get there, when we know that each other is being honest. Mistaken, possibly, but honestly mistaken, and not lieing to cover up some past mistake.

Show me a man who has never made a mistake and I shall show you a liar.

Doing  a stupit mistakes is part of life
i did a stupit mistake yesterday and my boss were very angry
but come on,we are human biengs we must do mistakes
i hope you cheer up and forget about it

dandona2010 wrote:

Doing  a stupit mistakes is part of life
i did a stupit mistake yesterday and my boss were very angry
but come on,we are human biengs we must do mistakes
i hope you cheer up and forget about it

I agree, mistakes are a part of life. We don't wake up and say "Oh, I need to hit my target of ten mistakes today", we try our  best and sometimes we make mistakes, we are human. You admitted to your mistake and took your punishment and that is the end of the matter, and that mistake is in the past and nobody got hurt, the world still seems to be revolving around the sun.

And next month you and your boss will be laughing about your mistake. Your boss isn't perfect either. In British culture it is quite normal for you to tell your boss that he or she has made a mistake, but in other cultures that is not allowed so much, unfortunately. The sooner a mistake is found the sooner it can be fixed. People should not hide their mistakes out of any kind of fear of looking stupid, that does not help anyone. I have led teams of engineers and I absolutely expect them to tell me if they think I have got something wrong, I might be the team leader but I am not perfect, I would much rather them tell me than sit in silence because "you mustn't argue with the boss", that is nonsense,

I have found in my life that saying "sorry, I made a mistake" - often before anyone else has even spotted it - actually increases others! respect for you, they trust you all the more for being honest and saying "sorry, I made a mistake".

SimonTrew wrote:

dandona2010 wrote:

Doing  a stupit mistakes is part of life
i did a stupit mistake yesterday and my boss were very angry
but come on,we are human biengs we must do mistakes
i hope you cheer up and forget about it

I agree, mistakes are a part of life. We don't wake up and say "Oh, I need to hit my target of ten mistakes today", we try our  best and sometimes we make mistakes, we are human. You admitted to your mistake and took your punishment and that is the end of the matter, and that mistake is in the past and nobody got hurt, the world still seems to be revolving around the sun.

And next month you and your boss will be laughing about your mistake. Your boss isn't perfect either. In British culture it is quite normal for you to tell your boss that he or she has made a mistake, but in other cultures that is not allowed so much, unfortunately. The sooner a mistake is found the sooner it can be fixed. People should not hide their mistakes out of any kind of fear of looking stupid, that does not help anyone. I have led teams of engineers and I absolutely expect them to tell me if they think I have got something wrong, I might be the team leader but I am not perfect, I would much rather them tell me than sit in silence because "you mustn't argue with the boss", that is nonsense,

I have found in my life that saying "sorry, I made a mistake" - often before anyone else has even spotted it - actually increases others! respect for you, they trust you all the more for being honest and saying "sorry, I made a mistake".

I am totally agree although in the Egyptian Culture especially in the work enviornmet you treated like robot you don't have the right to do mistake but i've learned to be strong enough to say I "am sorry i have made a mistake and i am going to fix it"

dandona2010 wrote:

I am totally agree although in the Egyptian Culture especially in the work enviornmet you treated like robot you don't have the right to do mistake but i've learned to be strong enough to say I "am sorry i have made a mistake and i am going to fix it"

I lived in Cairo for a couple of years when I was a teenager, but yes the work culture there is very different. And in Hungary too, the boss is always right, Well the boss is not always right,I have lost most of  my Arabic through disuse, I can still remember my numbers and some basic words like please and thankyou but most of it has got lost now. My father worked with the Egyptian Army for joint ventures between British defence companies and the Egyptian government, but at that time the English community was very much "expatriate" and didn!t mix much with the "natives". As children perhaps we would mix more but my parents did not mix too much with the "natives", but then even back in the UK they never really had much of a social life, they were nice people my mum and dad but tended to prefer their own company rather than socialise.

They did give us our freedom though so we would just take ourselves and go "metro hopping" and just go wherever we felt in Cairo, for five piastres a ticket it was at that time, go to the Khan Khalil, the old bazaar in Cairo, or down to the museum at Ramses Square or whatever it might be that day, just roll a dice and off we would go to just mooch around. Egyptians love children so they would always give us Egyptian sweets and so on or some little trinket from the market, I still have some souvenirs not worth anything but just little bits and pieces.

I don!t suppose there are many British people who could say "I went to school on an island in the middle of the Nile". (Zamalek)

SimonTrew: Although it is an interesting personal story, your post has little to do with the topic of this thread, which is "Stupid Mistakes".