At my first job right after graduation (less than 5 years ago), I managed to accidentally terminate production servers on a Friday night.
When I realized my mistake, my heart sunk. I got cold sweats. I was afraid I'd get fired. To this day I'm so glad my team leader was still at the office at the time. I told him about the blunder, and he asked me about the details. He sat down next to me, and we started working together, exchanging information and getting replacements back up. There was no CloudFormation, so everything was manual.
He never accused me in the postmortem, and I still feel so grateful for it. I learned from my mistakes and took action to prevent it from happening again.
Listen when you break something tell us. Explain what you did and we can get it fixed. You will make mistakes, we all still make mistakes.
That is what i always do and expect my coworkers to do. Yeah we talk a little smack afterwards (only jokingly), but were able to resolve most self inflicted wounds quickly. Nowadays what scares me more is a coworker who hides mistakes rather than one who confesses to them.
When I realized my mistake, my heart sunk. I got cold sweats. I was afraid I'd get fired. To this day I'm so glad my team leader was still at the office at the time. I told him about the blunder, and he asked me about the details. He sat down next to me, and we started working together, exchanging information and getting replacements back up. There was no CloudFormation, so everything was manual.
He never accused me in the postmortem, and I still feel so grateful for it. I learned from my mistakes and took action to prevent it from happening again.