Didn’t notice a spelling mistake in slide- freaking out

Hey,

I’m 3 weeks in to my SA job and it has been going well so far.

Today, I was told to proofread a slide that my associate had tinkered with. I changed a couple of typos, double spaces etc and sent it back to him, which he then sent on to the client. I checked over this slide at least 5/6 times.

1 hour later I went back on the slide just to play around with formatting and practice and noticed I had missed a spelling mistake. I told my associate about it and he said that he didn’t care and wasn’t the end of the world.

I’m still panicking a bit and can’t stop thinking about it. Don’t really know what I want to hear , but maybe some stories from you guys about mistakes you have made, as I’m currently more worried than I should be

16 Comments
 

This happened to me during my SA in a product group which is why i'm in coverage now. It was a small and stupid mistake, but nonetheless it didn't make the bank look great in front of a client.

 

Who cares. I literally messed up a financial analys causing our client to believe their company was worth $200m less than it actually was. Typos happen more often than you'd think.

 

Dog shit group if an intern is both the last to update and the last set of eyes on an even remotely important deliverable, don’t worry about the return worry about the lateral 

 

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