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I almost screwed up royally this week. One of our business units wanted me to go to their manager's meeting in Cancun and present some new research. Turns out that I can't go so one of the heads of the unit is going to present it instead.
I worked for a good week on this presentation so that anyone (even someone completely unfamiliar with the material) could give it. I sent the files out yesterday. Today, as I was looking for some information I knew I included in the presentation, I went to the "sent" email to retrieve it. Turns out I sent him an early version that didn't explain anything at all. He would have been completely stuck trying to figure it out.
The problem arose because I was supposed to get a new operating system on my computer this week and I saved the completed file to a shared drive so it wouldn't get lost but attached the junk version that was stored on my hard drive instead. I called him up to tell him and sent him the right file but wasn't sure if he had already left for the day. Turns out he thought I was trying to screw him by giving him nothing to work with. Sure glad I caught it. It could have wiped out all the work I've done over the last several months getting close to this department.
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Strive to be more curious than ignorant.
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