Late for work
I’m a Korean American college student who started an internship in Korea recently and I cannot get over the mortification of being late on my first day. I was told to come to the office by a certain time and I ended up taking longer in the morning than I thought I would, and then right as I was about to make it right on time I realized I had gotten on the wrong bus and that ended up delaying me. I was panicking and called my supervisor around the time I was supposed to show up letting them know I was running late by about 10 minutes. When I arrived they didn’t seem extremely annoyed but I’m sure they were and I felt so horrible and was of course apologizing profusely. This is the first time I’ve ever been late to a job, let alone on day one, and of course it had to be when the stakes are highest too.
Obviously I am never ever going to let this happen again but I genuinely can’t get over the horrible feeling and feel like I made a terrible first impression. This is also my first time working in Korea and it’s at a pretty big company so I’m very concerned I made an irredeemable mistake or something. Everyone has been nice so far but starting off on such a bad foot has really been tarnishing my whole experience (which is obviously my own fault). Should I come in like an hour early moving forward for the rest of the work days or something? Is there anything else I should know or need to do? Any advice would be appreciated.