Blunder at work

I've been working at my intern company for quite some time now, been wanting to post about the interesting things at work, but I was too busy. Due to a weird twist of fate, the first post that I make is actually about my mistake at work.

I am put in charge of the inventory keeping of my team, logistics has always been my weakest spot, back in NS when I was in charge of the signal equipments, I had a lot of trouble with the paperwork. I thought that this would be a good opportunity to learn to do logistics properly.

My supervisor was on course for these 2 days, so he had some task for me on the inventory checking, I was supposed to filter out a part of the inventory and do a small report and send to my boss, I didn't. After the matching of inventory records, I actually assumed that I should wait for my supervisor to see it after his course, but there was clear instruction was to tabulate and send. Now it is likely that my boss thinks my supervisor and I done nothing.

In my past jobs, I have disappointed some of my bosses before, they had a certain expectation of me, I failed to fulfill it. The biggest problem I have in my work is that I always wait, in some cases it was procrastination, in this case it's not that much, but it may affect my supervisor's appraisal and mine. I kept that in mind for my internship, but still this happened.

I guess the blessing in this misfortune is, this is an internship; while it does affect the chance to work at my host company upon graduation, the impact on my career path is not as strong. This internship has been a really good experience for me, several mistakes including this one serve to be valuable lessons to patch the flaws in my working style and attitude. But change is really hard, the first step to change is to identify and recognize the problem, I think I've done that already; how to patch the problem probably is the difficult part...