I get the sleepless stress thing. But, really, ultimately, you aren't responsible for doing someone else's job.

Don't freak out, Anne.

The main thing is that (a) the co-worker made the original error; and (b) you did catch it before it went out. It sucks that you didn't catch it earlier, but those two factors take the onus off you.

Also, it means you did your function in the error trapping process. It has layers for a reason and you did catch it at your level. Ideally earlier, but still, it's caught.

Anne, there's only so much you can be expected to check for, and this degree of fuck up is beyond that level.

The problem is, the part with the error has gone out. There's time to catch it, but still...

Part of what's freaking me out is wondering how much else slipped through the cracks and how much time (time that I don't have) I'm going to have to spend fixing it.

And thanks for the encouragement, everyone. I just wish my subconscious would listen to reason and let me sleep.

Do you have other co-workers who can help check, and a complete list of every file she's touched?

That's probably what it's going to come down to. Problem is, we're down by one person, and people are swamped.

At least my boss knows this person has a history of screwups, and has asked me to document everything I get from this person.

Anyhow, I'm going to try to get some sleep. Wish me sleep~ma, please.

All kinds of -ma, Anne. On a rather more shallow note, has anyone here ever bought perfume on the internets?(Although it's not really for a shallow reason that I ask, because my mother has been missing some of her favorites and we're all doing the "reduced circumstances" thing here so I'm trying to get her a good price)but one site looks kind of like another to me, so I thought "Cool. The Bitches will know!" so I hope you do.

Oddly enough, I have. My grandmother really loved "Evening in Paris" perfume, which they'd stopped making, so I did a somewhat extensive search (and learned much more about the perfume than I really wanted to) so I could give it to her for Christmas. I eventually ended up ordering through Sephora. And then she died that same year, so I got most of the perfume back. Not that you should take that as an omen or anything.

Also, I have an apartment! Yaaay! Now I just have to figure out how to get all my things from their current locations scattered across the Bay Area.

ETA: And I pretty much found that all sites were essentially the same too. There was a difference of maybe five dollars among them -- eventually I went with Sephora because I knew them. Think I might actually have used froogle for the price comparing.