One of the traits I like to pride myself on is my attention to detail and the fastidiousness work ethic I try to achieve and can get a little adrenaline rush after completing a number of tasks in good time. While that might sound like the sort of bullshit you would find on a CV I mention it highlight how much I beat myself up when a silly oversight at work saw half of a tanker delivery go down the drain. The mitigating factors that everybody, including my manager, mentioned are no more than excuses and can not escape the fact that I personally feel like I've let myself down just because I forgot to close the drain valve. Ironically another manager had been complaining about us extending the process times when we are on our own (which since redundancies we are) and many of my colleagues have said that there was an accident waiting to happen: I just didn't think that I would be the one to cause the mishap.
   It is the sort of incident that could and has happened elsewhere but the consequences are not as severe as it was not so much the loss of product that was at issue but the resultant effluent costs that seemed to vex everyone more. It is not the first time that this happened and since the last occasion no action was taken to prevent it occurring again and apparently no disciplinary action was taken towards those involved at the time either. I was not aware of that when I was told that I would get a written warning and most of my colleagues seem more aggrieved on my behalf and said they would do one thing at a time for fear that a similar fate awaits them. Nonetheless my crown of perfection has slipped somewhat.