“Including a comment about using my elderly gran as an excuse to be late to work, and also being hostile when I got a promotion and she didn’t.”įellow Redditors weighed in on where they believed the OP fell in this particular situation by declaring: “I should let people know that this colleague has made comments in the past.” “I don’t regret standing up for myself but now I’m wondering if I should have just ignored it or talked to her outside.” “One other colleague has said that I could have just ignored her.” “As I’m signing up, she comes over to me and says the I completely overreacted on something that was a small joke.’ “The sign up form went up for the river clean up.’ ‘Nothing serious, just a slap on the hand.” “Apparently my manager had heard the whole interaction and then called my colleague over to talk about her conduct in the workplace.”
Little did this unlucky colleague know that a clap-back from the OP was only the beginning of her problems. “I then went to the organizer and suggested a volunteering company that I had used in a previous company.” “‘So if you don’t want to do river clean up, that’s on you’.” “So I say to her ‘you’re saying that even though you are fully aware that up until a few months ago I was a carer for my bed bound nan, and didn’t hesitate to get my hands dirty’.” “She starts to look embarrassed, and tells me that I should just drop the topic, but I’ll admit I was a bit annoyed and she hadn’t even apologized.” ‘So I respond ‘so because I like to keep my hands clean at work means that I’m a princess and wouldn’t do what needs to be done?'” “This is mainly because it’s the office, I don’t want to make a mess or be a mess.” “She has laughed at me about it before and I’ve told her that I don’t like getting sauce on my hands.” but let me just say, those bones are clean at the end.” “What she means by that is I always wash my hands before I eat, and that if the food I have is messy then I will use utensils, so like a few times I’ve ordered chicken wings and used a knife and fork. “I hear this from my desk, turn around and ask her what does she mean by that and she responds with ‘what? Nothing, it’s just I thought you would be a bit of a princess about it, because of lunch’.” “My colleague pipes up and says “oh i know Kate would enjoy that, but wouldn’t be keen’.” “My manager said that we should do a river clean up or something like that.” “At my work they allow 1 day a year for volunteering.” The OP shared how the whole situation began when she overheard her colleague suggest she might not be cut out for an impending office outing. “AITA for embarrassing my colleague after she called me a princess?” Something a colleague of Redditor Lemonslothcake found out the hard way, after the original poster (OP) put this colleague in her place following an unappreciated joke.īut concerned she could have handled the situation a bit more diplomatically, the OP took to the subReddit “Am I The A**hole” (AITA), where she asked fellow Redditors: Helping greatly in keeping a workplace harmonious is to maintain a good relationship with one’s colleagues.Įven if one’s colleagues aren’t necessarily the type of people whom you would spend any time with outside of work, remaining on good terms with them will keep the work environment happy and productive.Įspecially considering that putting yourself at odds with your colleagues has every chance of landing you in hot water.