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TIFU and missed a work meeting and now I feel shitty about it.

I work in social care, so meetings, other than team catch ups in the service, are not a regular occurrence for me. I was scheduled to work this thursday evening which is weird and inconvenient because I’ve already told my managers I am busy every thursday evening. I managed to swap the shift with a colleague, manager approved it, all fine. Then I got an email inviting me to a meeting that thursday evening, to liase with healthcare professionals and social work regarding the circumstances of one of the ladies I support. There was a link to join the meeting on Teams so I thought, that’s ok, I don’t need to come in, I’ll just have to move things about so I can at least be available for joining virtually at that time.

So I rescheduled my weekly appointment (that would have been at the exact same time), giving me just enough time to make my appointment, get home and log on. Then after the meeting I could still go to the social club I go to later in the evening.

Today, I re-read the invite and realised it has a particular location listed, but I still only have time to join virtually so I thought that would have to be good enough. Logged on. My manager’s manager logged on too, asked if I was coming in, why wasn’t I on shift, and told me to phone my immediate manager who was looking for me. Phoned my manager, explained the situation, she asked me to come in as soon as possible but I didn’t have time, and she was not going to be doing the meeting over Teams, only in person. So I missed it.

TL;DR: thought I could join the meeting over teams as the invite had a link to do that. Turns out it was in person-only and I had accidentally rearranged myself out of making in. Feel like a piece of shit for letting the lady we support down and now and my managers and now worried both my managers agree with the “piece of shit” assessment. Ughh.

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