## How do you get punished when you fail a task at work? ## Well, if you are a professional athlete, if you lose a game they sack you and never let you play the sport again. However, I see from your profile that you are a programmer so I know if there is a bug in your code they just shoot you dead because no software ever has been released with a bug, right? **Failure happens.** A good organisation doesn’t punish people for failing, only for not trying. Or betrayal.