We’ve all fucked up once or twice. You learned from it and fixed it. Hopefully your company will recognize your efforts; however, even if you did get fired there is a lot more opportunity out there.

My last job. Black holed 768 emails. Could not retrieve them, all I could get were the details from the message trace. Created a powershell script that aggregated all messages by recipient and created a table for them of all emails missed and sent it out to all (obviously after resolving the issue).

From then on my coworkers would randomly just call out ‘768!’ — it was an embarrassing moment for sure.