“In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, ‘Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.” -Howard Schultz

Don’t lie about it. Don’t blame someone else. Admit you’re wrong. Admit you made a mistake. You overlooked the problem. It was your fault.

Don’t try to beat around the bush. You screwed up. That’s ok. People make mistakes. It’s very common. It’s the way we learn. 

Don’t lose sleep over it. Move on from the mistake. Make sure you prevent it from happening again.

If you lie about it, the mistakes will keep happening. You won’t learn at all. You’ll keep making mistakes, blaming others or other forces, and not feel bad when it happens.

What will come of that are a few bad things. You’ll get caught at least once in a lie. Now you’re known as a liar. No one trusts you plus you’ll probably get fired. 

The other outcome is you’ll probably get someone else in trouble or possibly fired. You’ll regret that. Most likely spill your beans that you fucked up and again get fired. 

It’s not good to get in the habit of lying. It leads you down a bad path. You may succeed for it in the short term. The long term is another whole can of worms. You’ll never succeed long term blaming other people and/or lying about being wrong. 

You messed up. You’re not perfect. Take the blame for the problem. Solve the problem. Move on.