Workplace mishaps... or HR Confessional...

I'll take this opportunity to truly embarrass myself with a rather large blunder in my early career.

Everything was done via teams as we were a multi site operation across the UK, we had a round of redundancies and during consultation with a very challenging individual which went on and on and had various allegations thrown towards their line manager.

After what seemed like an eternity the consultation was over and I hit stop recording/transcribing.

The employee left the meeting and the manager and I had a very candid conversation regarding the events that had just unfolded.

I then sent the recording to the employee and started on the minutes.

About 3 hours had passed and I couldn't understand why the recording was saying it was 25 minutes longer than the consultation had lasted for. Then reality hit, I felt sick and as I nervously fast forwarded to the end of the meeting sure enough, there is me and the manager shooting the breeze about the individual.

Luckily, I managed to delete everything before it was accessed, but I learnt a very valuable lesson that day and it took me about 2 weeks before I slept properly again!

*Very* easily done, Graham. And likely to become more common with the uptick in people using Co-Pilot and similar to write their minutes for them. The "Any Other Business" section could become extremely interesting reading!

I've made a number of professional blunders over the years, but whilst they were mortifying in person I suspect they'd look rather dull to the outsider. I firmly believe that mistakes are our greatest learning opportunities. The trick is to find safe spaces in which to make them.

*gestures at the Community in general*