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Bagul
7y

When I cost the company half a million.

We recently got incubated and signed up for an accelerator programme, it was a life changing moment for me especially after having worked with my startup unpaid for almost a year. So naturally, it meant a lot to me.

But my friends / colleagues had to leave for a trip leaving me to work along side this other startup in the same batch. They needed a front end guy for their web stuff so we naturally offered our services except they needed me to work on Angular and I didn't know jack shit about it but pretended I did.

I couldn't reach out to my friends for help because I felt bad and wanted to prove my worth, and I pressured myself to the point where I called the client our batch mate brought on board making him leave.

I lost credibility as a professional, trust as a friend and my place at the office because it's gotten extremely awkward to go back there.

I fucked up my one way ticket out of my current certain household circumstances and realized I'm just a shitty developer who's all talk and no show.

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  • 8
    Keep on going. Don't surrender to the defeat, accept it and learn from it. Commit yourself, specialize in something you love doing. Be master at that. And call yourself so.
  • 5
    Look at from another perspective:
    Lesson learned... Don't let your ego control you.
    If you're in doubt, ask for help.
  • 1
    Well, you did lie .. soo.. don't lie.
  • 1
    Pfff you Fucked up - tomorrow is a new day 😀 nobody is perfect
  • 1
    Why did you call the client?
  • 1
    @eth Thanks, bud. Appreciate the kind words.

    @bas1948 Yeah, definitely not going to repeat the same mistake.

    @mundo03 I was blinded by the money, to be honest. Lesson learned.

    @J4s0n This was the biggest fuck up among all my other fuck ups. Still surprised I didn't get fired but not complaining. Life's good at the end of the day.

    @GigaMick I didn't call the client; he made me install a monitoring software that periodically sent him screenshots of what I was doing and it completely escaped my mind it was still on while I was cursing at him.
  • 0
    @theOverseer from your post "and I pressured myself to the point where I called the client"
  • 0
    @GigaMick Oh I meant I called him a 'motherfucking French fuck', not like called him on his phone.
  • 0
    @GigaMick I just realized I didn't finish my sentence, my bad.
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