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What's the biggest mistake you've ever made at a job?

Accepting a job at a particular place that "sounded cool" after I first moved to Sydney more than 10 years ago.  I had heard it was a rather dysfunctional place to work but thought I could handle it.  Wrong!  I lasted a bit more than a year there during which time I shattered my ankle falling down the front steps of the building (and no I wasn't pushed - but my lovely manager at the time did try and suggest that I had done it on purpose to get workers compensation!!!).  One (or I should say two) good things came out of this experience though.  Two of the women I worked with there became and remain very good friends (one was actually my birth support person when my daughter was born and the other was on standby to do the same when I had my son).  Funny how adversity in the workplace can bring people closer together.