You may feel mortified about what has happened, but chances are your colleagues have already forgotten about it and moved on, writes Jonathan Rivett.
Every so often I get deliveries sent to my work office when it’s more convenient than sending it to my home. Last week I opened a package at my desk, thinking it was a computer component. However, it was an intimate item I had accidentally sent to my work instead of my home.
I’m not for a minute suggesting your embarrassment is completely unfounded. I think just about everyone would be rattled and feel uncomfortable in such a moment. It was a wretched bit of bad luck, and it would have been startling when you realised the slip-up you’d made and that others had witnessed it.But I think most of us have a tendency to overthink and over-analyse our own stumbles, faux pas and mistakes. In part, that’s because of a phenomenon psychologists call the spotlight effect.
Not a single person had noticed my actions or my absence. What had been so all-encompassing to me that I assumed it must have spilled out was in fact a non-event to everyone else.
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