it has been the worst week at work, things that I forgot to do in December and January came to light this?

Question

week, it impacts the company, my co-workers and dozens if not hundreds of contractors. because i did not do what i was supposed to do, because i didnt follow up because i didnt go back and check, maybe cost the company a million dollars, maybe made us miss a deadline, maybe cost all of those contractors their jobs for a few weeks, all of those families with out a check because i didnt do what i was supposed to do.
why did i miss it was i overworked , overloaded? was it just that i didnt have the skills i need to ahave or didnt apply myself to the job.
geeze this sucks, why why why. i know that i am better than this, i know that i can do the job and that i have done the job much better than i am doing now.
i am so sorry that i didnt do what i was supposed to do, but i dont know how to fix it now either, you cannot just throw money on it, it takes time and time is the thing that we do not have. I do not know what i am supposed to do next.

Answer 1

Yup, that's a really bad week, for sure. What's done is done - no way to change it. Resolve to be sure to take care of priority items in the future. Try to figure out why you missed these things - not so you can beat yourself up some more, but so you can be sure this doesn't happen again. Maybe you need a better tracking system for tasks you need to do?

Good luck.