Saying you're sorry

[jakewriter82]

So I really screwed up royally here. I wrote something I probably shouldn't have and I upset a few people I work with, all with my big mouth (or fingers). I said I'm sorry, and I've tried explaining why I wrote it, but I still feel like I'm Mr. scumbag...

Now I know that from now on no matter what I do, it won't matter to this person or people, (who really didn't care for me too much to begin with.)

What sucks is it feels like there's nothing more I can do to fix what's been done. I'm not backing down from what I wrote completely, but the way I expressed it was in poor judgment.

Anyone been in that boat?

How'd it turn out?

 

[Write-brained]

Was it a column? Or a screw-up in a story?

 

[Norman Stansfield]

A post on the board?

 

[jakewriter82]

Was it a column? Or a screw-up in a story?

Well it was a personal blog that wasn't intended for certain eyes that managed to find them anyway. I don't want to give too much away, but yeah, it wasn't very nice to a few people at work.

 

[Write-brained]

Was it a column? Or a screw-up in a story?

Well it was a personal blog that wasn't intended for certain eyes that managed to find them anyway. I don't want to give too much away, but yeah, it wasn't very nice to a few people at work.

****, dude, you have to be a lot more careful. If you don't want someone to see what you wrote about them, don't put it on the internet.

 

[jakewriter82]

Was it a column? Or a screw-up in a story?

Well it was a personal blog that wasn't intended for certain eyes that managed to find them anyway. I don't want to give too much away, but yeah, it wasn't very nice to a few people at work.

****, dude, you have to be a lot more careful. If you don't want someone to see what you wrote about them, don't put it on the internet.

Yeah, that was mistake No. 2 or 3. In the grand scheme of things the person really didn't care for me anyway so it's not changing TOO much, I guess.

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

Don't be surprised if you get a call from the higher-ups for a chat.

 

[Songbird]

"words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by man."

 

[Diabeetus]

Try to cover up all evidence, if possible

 

[jakewriter82]

Don't be surprised if you get a call from the higher-ups for a chat.

Try to cover up all evidence, if possible

Not to get all psychoanalysis here but looking at it I think there's some fundamental problem somewhere that'd make me do something hurtful like that... I just can't pin down what it is just yet..

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

Don't be surprised if you get a call from the higher-ups for a chat.

Try to cover up all evidence, if possible

Not to get all psychoanalysis here but looking at it I think there's some fundamental problem somewhere that'd make me do something hurtful like that... I just can't pin down what it is just yet..

Still got the neighbors to help you out?

 

[GBNF]

Hell yeah I've been in that boat, on this board in fact. And I owned up to it and dealt with the consequences from my former coworkers.

They weren't happy, and I apologized to the people I needed to apologize to. One accepted it and realized that I was a bit of a young asshole, and we moved on. Another still holds a grudge.

Nothing I can do at this point...

 

[ArnoldBabar]

Apologizing is good, appropriate and mature. But it doesn't put the toothpaste back in the tube. The thing you did was still wrong, and sorry isn't a magic wand that makes everything all better. Recovering from a mistake is a process. Treating the people well from here is about all you can do.

 

[Bad Guy Zero]

Time to invest in a good pair of kneepads.

 

[Angola!]

Hell yeah I've been in that boat, on this board in fact. And I owned up to it and dealt with the consequences from my former coworkers.

They weren't happy, and I apologized to the people I needed to apologize to. One accepted it and realized that I was a bit of a young asshole, and we moved on. Another still holds a grudge.

Nothing I can do at this point...

You to huh? The only person I cared about that saw what I posted accepted my apology and the deleted post and we were good.

 

[Tom Petty]

Don't be surprised if you get a call from the higher-ups for a chat.

honest question: do you even work in this business? i've never heard a journalist refer to anybody as a "higher-up."

 

[Kid Bro Sweets]

I know a guy who disparaged his editor in a blog.

His life at that paper sucked until he left. Gotta be smart about that stuff, homes.

 

[Football_Bat]

Hah ... Arnold said "toothpaste" and it took Angola a little over a half-hour to respond ... and his repsonse was "You to huh? ... ;D

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

You're not sorry that you wrote it, you're just sorry they found out.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Not much else you can do but apologize, Jake. Go and sin no more. The others here are spot on. Learn from it. And here's what you learn: Always assume everything you post on the internet, regardless of the forum, will be seen by people you don't want to see it.