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Acknowledgement of your shortcomings is not the same as an apology. In my experience apologies are not making things better, but saying yeah that’s my fault an
by bthornbury 9y ago
Acknowledgement of your shortcomings is not the same as an apology.
In my experience apologies are not making things better, but saying yeah that’s my fault and moving forward does.
- brazzledazzle 9y agoThey’re the same as far as I’m concerned. Whether you say “I’m sorry” or “oops. my bad” doesn’t matter as long as you acknowledge that you did something that may have fucked up someone’s morning/day/weekend.
- macromaniac 9y agoOkay then it's just semantics. I admit mistakes but I try to be objective about it. If that's considered an apology then I do apologize.
- gumby 9y agoAn apology says “yes, I know I inconvenienced you/somebody other than myself”
- jacobolus 9y ago> yeah that’s my fault and moving forward This sounds like an apology to me (just a rather casual one, befitting a minor screwup). If you e.g. said you’d be at a routine 9:00 work meeting and you didn’t get there until 9:20 because your sick dog vomited on the rug you can make a quick and casual apology like that. If you e.g. cheated on your spouse while you were on a business trip, you shouldn’t leave it at “yeah that’s my fault let’s move forward.”