Ya. That's how things operate at my work and it works well. As much as it sucks mistakes happen, things get damaged, sometimes things worth lots of money. If fe

Ya. That's how things operate at my work and it works well. As much as it sucks mistakes happen, things get damaged, sometimes things worth lots of money. If feels really shitty to have to go tell someone you made a mistake, that a bunch of time got wasted, we're going to have to redo work, that you just destroyed a couple thousand dollars worth of things. It really sucks... But... it sucks a whole lot less than when someone tries to cover up or hide a mistake. It always ends up coming out in the end, it always makes things worse than they could have been in the end and everyone ends up even more pissed off than they would have been. It's not worth it. Actually, my parents forced me to learn this lesson young. Me and two other kids did something fairly terrible when I was in elementary school. My parents took me and made me personally apologize to the person who detrimented from our actions. It wasn't the most pleasant of experiences but in the end t was the right thing to do and it taught me, if you fuck up, the best thing you can do is admit it, try and make it right and learn from it. I've been trying to teach the new guy at my work this. He started off worried about making mistakes, would beat himself up and try to cover them up. It's been a few months of talking to him and telling him to focus on learning and not worrying about mistakes. If they happen, I get him to work through what went wrong before anything too bad happens and i've found his attitude has changed quite a bit since he first started. He doesn't worry so much and he's been learning a lot more quickly. When something does happen, instead of panicking he just comes to tell me and i'll help him work though figuring it out. We're all human, mistakes happen. They just need to be dealt with in a reasonable way and if you make a mistake admit it and if you can't figure out how to fix the problem there's no shame in asking for help.