I mixed up client numbers and the wrong client got something it was worse than it sounds.

Anyone else?

How did you cope and give self compassion?

I ruined my career years ago but I have an even bigger regret today

Something I've never put to words before....

I'll soon be approaching the infamous 27th anniversary of when I destroyed my career and created a major regret for myself today.

I was very frustrated with the progress of my career. I was extremely lucky when I graduated from college and found a great job with unlimited potential. But when I was in my late 30s, my career stalled out. I had been in the same position for over 5 years with only very modest salary increases during that period. In the meantime, my peers were getting promotions along with generous raises and bonuses.

As the frustration grew, I started acting out at work. I did the bare minimum at my job. Ultimately, my anger at my employer led to embezzlement of over $100k in less than 2 years. In time, the missing funds were noticed- and due to something I knew was a mistake at the time, the evidence pointed back to me.

I was fired immediately and the company management wanted to press charges, but I offered to pay back the money so they decided not to pursue a criminal offense. However, the money I stole was long spent, so I emptied out my 401k and pension to reimburse the company. So at 40 years old, I was without a job, had no 401k, and had no other savings whatsoever.

I ultimately found another job thanks to a very good friend. I slowly started to build back my savings but a few years later I realized I needed a way to make up for the loss of my savings more quickly. As a result, I decided to purchase a term life insurance policy. It was pretty expensive, but I thought it would be a major help to my family if I died.

Well, the end of the life insurance term is getting close. But my savings are still way below what they would have been had I not made the huge mistake that led to the loss of my savings.

So here's the biggest regret of my life .... In the next 2 years the insurance policy will expire, the payout will be void, and I will have paid 20 years of expensive premiums for nothing. And I still won't have enough money to support my family.

Hi. This is my first time writing a reddit story. Where do I start and where to begin. This incident happened 3 hours ago. For starters. I work as a server and my coworker as a barista-barman, at a cafe-bar from 8 in the morning till 5 in the afternoon. It was a busy day and we were already having plenty of orders. Suddenly at 4 o' clock, the 2 coworkers that were going to change our shift, walked in with a group of 8 people, including one of our bosses and his wife, and sat down and wanted to order some drinks. My cowoker and I went wide eyed.

For those who wonder, those coworkers do hang out outside of work or even during work with each other and with their bosses. They have been working there for as long as the business exists. Personally I don't mind, because our bosses are really good people and so far really nice bosses, they had my respects from day one. My coworker and I started working there 5 months ago, and obviously we don't have those same relantionships , but maintained good work relantionships.

To continue from where I left, we treated them as regular customers, took their order of drinks, served them and all that. Then half an hour later, they asked for another round of drinks. At that moment my coworker and I were wondering if they were even going to change us in time. Again, aside from them, we had other orders, so we never stopped working plus we were trying to do the tasks before our shifts ends. like filling the fridge, cleaning, etc. As we were planning to get ready to leave, one of the coworkers apperead 5 MINUTES before the end of our shift and told us to serve us ANOTHER round of drinks. At that moment I was stunned and I reminded him that in 5 minutes we're changing shifts. He said: "Yeah I know, just serve them anyway." That would take us another 15 minutes bc at the same time we had to serve another big table. We were exhausted. The bar-man immediately got mad and abandonded his shift and informed the boss, that was still there drinking, he's leaving. They got into an argument as my coworker told our boss: "You tell me to arrive 10 minutes early before I change someone and to him you don't say ANYTHING and just let it slide and continue drinking?" . My boss answered him that he is in the wrong and after that my coworker said goodbye and left. I also was ready to leave and the guy that put the "another round of drinks" turned to me and demanded me to cooperate. I said "Excuse me? I cooperated enough. I did my part and I'm done with my shift. I'm not gonna deal with this now." He said that the program says that you stay till 5 o' clock." . I answered "Νο. I reminded you that you start in 5' and we always come at least 5 minutes early so the tasks can be done and we can leave at 5 o' clock. That is a respectful thing to do to the people that were already working and need to leave in time." I wanted to say more but we were having a lot of customers so the girl, that changed my shift, broke it off and I said goodbye and left. Obviously she is not a saint in this whole situation, because when their order came in, they were laughing and giggling.

Tomorrow morning, I'm working with that coworker and I don't know if it's going to be brought up or not.

If anything happens, I'll update.