To think there is nothing wrong with proving it wasn’t my mistake

[Pantone333]

I came into work today and another colleague slipped over to tell me I’d made a mistake booking a client in on the wrong day but it didn’t matter and it had all been sorted.

I asked for some more details and she just waved it off and said oh it’s fine it’s all sorted now.

But I knew I hadn’t made a mistake. I don’t make mistakes like that. I know I don’t becuase I double and triple check to make sure I don’t.

When I looked into it a bit more I realised someone had edited the calendar to cover in their initial mistake thereby making it look like I had made the mistake.

I saw colleague again this afternoon and told her that it wasn’t actually me. She got all short with me and said “gosh it’s really not a big deal, you don’t need to waste time trying to investigate and prove you don’t make mistakes Pantone” said with a head tilt and an eye roll

Was I being over the top? Should I just have let it go?

Her pointing it out in the first place suggests her guilt. Her making a fuss about you investigating suggests her wanting it hid under the carpet now.

I would have calmly told her that I know it’s not a big deal; therefore I don’t see why she’s making a big deal of my clarifying what actually happened. And then I’d have sneezed in the bitch’s Cup-a-Soup.

Not unreasonable op. It might only be a small thing, but it’s irritating being told you made a mistake when you didn’t. Makes you doubt yourself too.

YANBU if it was worth her pointing out your 'mistake' it's worth you pouting out it wasn't you!

As a former victim of petty PA sneaky workplace bullying (deliberately not passing on information, that sort of thing), YANBU.

It would bother me. I don't often make mistakes, but when I do I don't have a problem admitting to them.
But this sneaky lying bothers me.

YANBU. If she thought it was worth spending time telling you you'd made a mistake, then it was equally worth your time establishing that you hadn't. The more serious issue is that someone has tried to falsify the records to cover up their own mistake, and it rather looks as if colleague is the obvious culprit.

No you done the right thing why should you carry on letting people think it was your mistake. I would have done the same thing

No, YANBU. Someone altered documentation to make you look like you had erred. How many times does this happen? Is it the same person cocking up all the time and using others to cover? I'm afraid I would not let it go. Your work has been impugned to cover someone else's shortcomings - the cover up is worse than the offence. And if it 'wasn't that big a deal' why didn't they take responsibility themselves? Because it WAS a big deal. Clear your name.

So her logic is that it’s fine for her to tell you about the mistake, but not okay for you to tell her it wasn’t you? She’s sounds awful and probably got defensive because it was her who screwed up. Usually when people get defensive it’s because they are in the wrong

Does your system maintain an audit trail fo changes? Ours does so it's difficult to get away with things.

Editing the calendar is bad news. I’d follow that up and log that with mgr