A lesson

Sometimes you will find yourself awkwardly stuck in a situation where you can hardly justify yourself, even though you think you can be well justified. Looks I tasted what university politics was like through today's experience. Although I felt wrongly treated, I had to admit that a little more carefulness would have saved me from the embarrassment I experienced regarding our newsletter I was working on.

Basically, what happened was: There will be an academic conference to be held in town this weekend, and some of CommDev faculty and students will give their presentations. After reviewing my draft, I was told by my director to add all those CommDev faculty to present papers at the conference by checking its website. I swear I did so, quite a few times last night, yet its schedule then was still a very brief one, without the info I needed. However, it turned out they finally updated the schedule today, and I didn't make a last-minute check before sending out the newsletter, which resulted in that one faculty member sent a note to my director saying that his or her name was missing in the faculty presenter list, which is, in his words, a sensitive issue as people do read our newsletters.

I felt bad about all this. I should have been a bit more careful or should have found another way to make sure all the info needed had been acquired.

However, what I care more about is that I was mistakenly taken as not paying attention to what has been told by superiors. It is not the way I'm doing things, yet it turned out that I had bad luck this time. : (

Yet no worries. I will get over it. Next time, it won't happen again. No big deal. : )