To not drip feed, some back story; I have been at this job 5 months. It is my first job since being made redundant on mat leave last year. The team, whilst polite,
are very quiet. The guy who sits opposite me, at every opportunity (whilst people are away from their desks) tells me how no-one in my role has ever lasted more than 12 months, and are usually sacked for no apparent reason. Also how the managers are "snakes". etc etc etc. I, possibly stupidly, have bought into this and am panicking daily that I am going to loose my job. He generally is the only one who talks to me, offers me cakes/teas etc etc, he occassionaly talks to another girl to the other girl opposite him, other than that, none of the team talk. Fine, I am here to work really.
Two weeks ago I made a massive slip up at work where a client double ordered furniture through two suppliers. It is my job to check things like this from happening. When I realized, it was too late, and one of the suppliers have been left with some made to order furniture, and therefore out of pocket. Said colleague, who works more reguarly with the furniture supplier who lost out, was really loudly saying to me "what are you going to do about it! you need to ring them!" etc etc. The office is so quiet so everyone could hear, I literally was so embarrased I wanted to cry. However, my managers were really understanding saying "these things happen" etc. In reality it isn't a vast some of money they are missing, and it might be resold to another client this year.
Whilst I am mortified about the error, since it happened, said colleague is blatantly ignoring me in the office, offering everyone else in the small team cakes/teas/talking to that other girl all day long. I dont know whether I should bring it up and apologise to him, or whether this is a bit pathetic. I feel like I am at school, and have never worked somewhere that has this type of environment! He seems to be making it more and more obvious and the other colleagues will sure have picked up on this by now. HELP!