I cost my boss $1000

I feel awful but I messed up at work and I'm too embarrassed and scared to fess up to what happened. I took a customers payment for an item we sell, only to realize I had written down on the invoice that the customer had overpaid by $1000 a few days later. I called the customer and told him he'd overpaid and to come and pick up the thousand without counting the money to confirm the error.
Then, the next day I went to bank the money only to realize that the customer had paid the correct amount all along and I had just written the wrong number down on the invoice by mistake.
I couldn't call the customer to bring back the money without looking like an idiot, so I just changed the invoice to show the amount due was what I had to bank.
I feel horrible because I'm always so honest, but I just can't bring myself to tell my boss what happened. I know they will never pick up on it but I will always know what I did and I hope someday I can make it up to them somehow :(

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anonymous Work July 25, 2013 at 12:00 am 0 0