Hi,
So I work afternoons and evenings and have been looking for a little morning job for a while and a few weeks ago, my colleague said he’d got a morning job too and was asked if there was anyone who he worked well with that would like to work with him. He asked me if I would like it and I was really grateful, said yes and have been there for a week now. It’s been going well and it’s just us two working there.
Today, he said we could do extra hours and he will be staying later from now on. I said in a passing comment, “oh it’d be good if my sister could get a job here and help us out” (it’s a huge building and we could really do with more help. She needs some more work anyway and would be happy to help us). He then went on a big rant about how they wouldn’t employ anyone else and that they don’t have the money for it (he doesn’t even know their budget. He’s just an employee). I said yeah that’s fine and shrugged it off. I started working on something and he came back five minutes later and said “ I did you a big favour by getting you this job, didn’t I?” Then went on again about how they won’t want anymore people working there. He knows how grateful I am to him for getting me this job and I even got him a nice box of chocolates and said thank you so many times.
He was basically saying that I should be grateful to him that I have a job there and that I shouldn’t have suggested that my sister take some of my spare hours and it’s made me feel weird like he still thinks I owe him something. Do you think this was a big over reaction to a small comment or is this just me? It’s not like I was actively seeking to get her employed there.