# So I messed up today

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-messed-up-today/481572>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 16, 2009, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-messed-up-today/481572 "2009-01-16T07:17:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![With\_Rye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@With\_Rye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/With_Rye)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-messed-up-today/481572/1 "2009-01-16T07:17:01Z")

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I was supposed to prepare a presentation for one of our content developers during the weekly company meeting. I put in the wrong data and had to spend five minutes scrambling to find the correct thing while everyone waited and _watched_. The president of the company tried to stall for a few minutes with little jokes to give us some time, but had to eventually move on to the next item in the agenda while I did my damage control ):

I finally did manage to get the correct data on the screen and sat back down with my ears aflamed, I’m sure.

The worst part was afterward, when I went to apologize to the developer who did the presentation, she actually apologized to me for not having checked my data first before the meeting. Eck.

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**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-messed-up-today/481572/2 "2009-01-16T07:21:48Z")

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It happens to the best of people. Just knock the next presentation out of the park!