I've been with this company a year and one of the guys is just plain moody!
He's fine sometimes but other times is just so rude. I don't like the way he speaks to me at times and find myself being nervous of anything I do.
So he was away on holiday but had asked me to complete a particular task. What he wanted couldn't be done, so I explained this can't be done but the alternative is X, it offers a similar outcome do you want me to do this?
His email response was NO. I honestly thought he'd sent this by accident without finishing the.email so I replied "did you send this in error" his response No! I then emailed really? Have I done something to upset you? No response to that!
Now I think that's just rude, I'd given loads of detail and found an alternative etc.
He phoned yesterday and was literally muttering that he felt I hadn't answered an email to another client fully enough, ok that's fine just say "could you confirm the situation in more detail" or whatever.
So he then says well I wasn't annoyed but I did have a grumble whilst I was away! So I'm over it now and I hope you are too.
He's basically saying he was rude on one email because another one wasn't quite what he wanted (it was a small part missed and wouldn't cause any issues).
To be honest I want to discuss this more and say it would've taken 20 seconds to say no thanks, which would've made a huge difference to how I felt about the response!
Am I being petty and should I just leave it? Or sit down and say actually that's not a fair response and if he had a problem he should explain and not leave me wondering what on Earth I did wrong! The two emails were not connected so I was going through the wrong email, thinking WTF have I said to piss him off!!
My gut is to say something.