Hello everyone,
For the past couple of week, my colleague and I have been working on a project and at the end of the project, we both have to write reports about our findings/conclusions etc. I have more experience than my colleague as she is new to the team. So- as this will be the first time my colleague has written the report, I checked it on her behalf but advised her to send it to one of the superiors to check it over.
This week, my colleague contacted the manager about something she needed to send in with the report. My manager then ccd me into the email and the rest of the team leads, asking my colleague whether she has sent her report to the team leads for checking. My colleague acted "dumbfounded' and said that she hadn't realised and sent the copy of the report to the team leaders. At that point, I emailed the manager and wrote that I had already told colleague to have her report checked by the superiors. When I sent the email (my colleague and my team leads were cc'd in). My colleague wrote me a private email and said that 'She had it checked by the superiors but wasn't to know that it had to checked by the team leads and that next time, could I have sent her en email privately without notifying the whole team leads and managers". I then told her that I did say her report needed to be checked by the superiors but admitted that I didn't specifically say that it had to be with the team leads. She then replied that she not offended but would rather I contacted her privately as opposed to including the team leads in her email.
AIBU to think that my colleague is being ridiculous as it was not my intention to make her look bad.