Or, d) so overly cautious that barely any work gets done at all, due to too many precautions slowing you down. But seriously, I can't think of any time in the

Or, d) so overly cautious that barely any work gets done at all, due to too many precautions slowing you down. But seriously, I can't think of any time in the past 25 years where I thought "This is going to get me fired"... with one exception. At a medical related company, I got in a blow-up shouting match with a director that was trying to get me to cut a three day procedure down to less than one day. The only way this could happen is if I rushed through everything and "hoping it was done right", vs. double checking not only my work, but everyone else's inputs also. Long story short, I cornered that director some time after the meeting, apologized profusely, and explained that I'm overly sensitive to mistakes in this position since I witnessed first-hand what happened when a predecessor of mine made a "simple" error, which resulted in a major patient-impacting event (which resulted in an FDA investigation). The upshot is that this director, from that point on, trusted me more than anyone else on the team (even though I was "highly insubordinate" in the previous meeting).