Pretty minor in the scheme of things, but this sort of thing seems to happen quite often.
I don't want to be too specific in case anyone recognises the situation, but basically there is a weekly event and I wanted some of my clients to be involved. Over a week ago I emailed the two people who were likely to be organising this and was told that Person A was going to be in (sole) charge this week. Person B also received this email, so knew this as well. Once I had been told this, I only communicated with Person A so as not to clog up Person B's inbox as they are brand new to the job and so assimilating a lot of information.
This morning I received an email from Person B telling me off because my clients had shown up expecting to be involved and she had already organised other people to take part. She said I should have contacted her earlier about it.
I wrote back, reminding her of the history of the situation. I've received no apology and can't help wondering 1) Why similar things keep happening to me when I feel I've been well organised; 2) Why she feels like she can speak to me like that when she's only been in the job five minutes and I have done various things to help her settle in (not my responsibility, but she asked for my help).
I have not imagined that I communicated everything the organiser (Person A) needed to know in a timely fashion. There was no reason for me to think Person B would also be involved when I'd been categorically told it was Person A's job, and no-one asked me to copy in Person B.
Am I doing something wrong that's obvious to everyone except me?