I all, I’m a manager at a small business. Recently an incident happened where a customer walked out without fully paying for their purchase. This was at the fault of another employee. When that employee realized they freaked out and didn’t seem to handle the situation well. They started crying and we’re worried they’d be fired. I told them to go and take their position for the day while i resolved the situation. I resolved it and the customer ended up paying for their full purchase. Fast forward a week and my boss came and talked to me about mistakes happening lately and sited that incident. No names were said but I agreed that it shouldn’t have happened and said there were probably a lot of outside factors that were a catalyst. Well I ended up walking away from the conversation thinking that maybe my boss thought I was the one who made the mistake. Should I clarify that it wasn’t me? Or would j just be throwing the other person under the bus and looking like an ass? Is there a professional way I can clarify and absolve myself? To clarify, my boss at the end said they weren’t worried that I’m doing a good job but just wanted to bring it to attention.