How bad did I mess up
I'm currently a 2nd year analyst in pub fin, I make occasional mistakes at work like everyone.
Recently I was sending out an information request for a client (think rating agency rating fee quote). I noticed a typo as I hit send, no biggie I have my outlook set on a 30 sec delay. I click control Z trying to cancel send, this undo's my last change which was unhighlighting my email body. This didn't unsend the email, so the email sent with the body highlighted. I freaked out and instantly told the VP; he could care a less. I'm worried that he was trying to be nice and I actually damaged trust. How fucked am I?
Start cleaning out your desk lol
I wouldn’t even bother showing up to the office tomorrow. In all honesty I’d be surprised if you ever find employment again
One time, our summer analyst sent an email to our MD. The entire email body was highlighted gray for some reason.
The MD was on the phone with a client. He put the client on hold, and stormed out of the office. He yelled for the intern to come over. He whispered something in the interns ear. The intern collapsed to the floor and had a seizure. Later that day, the intern lost his life. But more importantly, he lost his return offer.
Some mistakes aren’t forgivable.
Time to freak the fuck out
You’re fine. Just make sure your resume isn’t highlighted when you send it out tomorrow.
I think the joke’s on me for spending more than a second reading this.
I don’t think it’s a terrible error.
Reminds me of something I did as an analyst. The Md asked me to email the client a short deck on something. I remember the full deck was like the cover page, exec summary a few data slides and the last page was a one page summary highlighting the choices.
So I attached the document and sent to client and copied Md. I’m lazy as you all know, and I never bothered to open the attachment. So you know when you print, you can have it just print one page not all pages? So I had originally just printed out that one page summary for the Md to review and sign off on.
So when I went to pdf the deck, it only pdf’d that page and not the full deck. And that’s what I sent.
I remember sitting there in terror just waiting for the Md or someone on my team who was copied or worse the client to reply back and be like wtf there is only one page here.
But I guess my team was lazy like me and never read or cared about the email. And the client got a succinct one page summary and was like ok this make sense lol.
One time I was helping someone recruit and meant to send them an email to reach out for an MD. I accidentally sent the MD an email with her email attached and a message that said “reach out”
I fucked up pretty bad on that, but the worse part was that the MD was someone I actually respected. Shit happens man, just gotta not do it again, I make list of mistakes I have made.
This is probably a shit post but I will bite.
The fact that you are so concerned about an email when your VP does not care speaks volumes about your EQ and judgement about a process. A top notch analyst or employee of any kind, is not someone who never makes mistakes but is someone who understands where the deal is, which stakeholders are the ones that matter vs not, what are the bottle necks in the process, how do we get the transaction / process over the line.
The fact that you are stressing about this email when your VP does not care, shows that you are to an extent perhaps being performative.
Attention to detail is the most over indexed characteristic, fair we work with numbers. But what I find people under index is common sense, humility and above all a genuine interest and understanding about the overall deal dynamics and where the deal is in the process. This view will help you when you are doing a million things. You will understand and anticipate where your MD cares vs does not care, and most importantly it will help you contribute to your team.
It is not that your VP or MD want flawless work for everything. The reason they are tripping about the formatting is because they want to win the deal. Not all emails are the same, not everyone needs absolute perfect work, the best analysts and even VP+ are people who are locked the fuck in, know what is going on, and can produce quality work where it matters, and make their bosses life easier.
I say if your VP said it does not matter trust him/her, they are probably managing a million other things, they don’t need an analyst bothering them about something dumb. Think about where your deal might need some leadership and effort and do the work there.
This is exactly why you’re in public finance
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