Reminds me of of one my first projects. It was a basic contact entry form for a Dog Rescue. It was a PHP form dumping to FileMaker. I had updated been testing t

Reminds me of of one my first projects. It was a basic contact entry form for a Dog Rescue. It was a PHP form dumping to FileMaker. I had updated been testing the form and forgot to update the FileMaker connection strings back to the prod DB. My boss called me around 9pm saying WTF. I started stalling, put him on speaker, then remoted in and fixed the strings (this was on my Samsung Blackjack running Windows 5- I think). I told him to check again because it was working for me. He gave an incredulous “huh” and said see you tomorrow. I thought I’d gotten away with it. He called me in first thing the next day- told me straight up: I get that things break, they don’t tend to fix themselves. He gave me a chance to own up, and I didn’t. I was young, and dumb. Said I don’t know what happened. Couple years later I realized he knew. I’ve since learned that it’s almost always better to own up. Even if you’re never caught, most people will respect the honesty. Those that don’t probably have their own issues.