Inform (if necessary), apologize, suggest steps to make amends and prevent recurrence
The glow of your monitor illuminates your worried face as you stare at the terminal window. During what should have been routine database maintenance, you, the database administrator at QuantumData Corp, have accidentally deleted last month's customer feedback data - data that hadn't been backed up yet. You immediately walk over to the office of Priya, the feedback team lead, to talk about what happened. Her team relies heavily on this data for their upcoming quarterly report, due next week.