Wondering if colleague did this on purpose

[WilloWhisperer]

Today I had an important meeting arranged which I have been organising since July. In the end I rearranged my schedule to work today (I work for this company and have my own small business where I usually see clients on a Friday so had a lot of logistics to arrange).

The meeting was at 12 and so our senior consultant wanted me to go through some things in the morning. I told our whole team where I would be, asking them to get me when the people I was expecting had arrived.

The layout is a line of offices which are tucked away. The senior consultant and I had the door shut as we were discussing confidential information, furthest away from the entrance. There is a junior colleague who always huffs that she has to show people where these particular rooms are (she is sort of part of our team but in a different capacity)

I came out of the office at 12.10 to see if the people I had a meeting with were here yet. No one had got me so I thought they might be late. After a bit of investigating, she said “I looked around and couldn’t find you, so they left”. She said she asked around. But none of my team saw her come up the corridor. All she had to do was ask my whereabouts and any of them would have known where I was/ to come and get me. They were all working with their doors open.

She has form for doing things “to prove a point” so I’m wondering if she has done this on purpose? I don’t know when I/they am going to be able to rearrange and we will probably lose work because of this.

Oh come on, you have to give us a bit more than that!!

The way she treated them? Was she rude?

This post is a bit odd, in that the OP refuses to say what actually really happened. In which case why did she post other than to make herself better about her own mistake?

And to let us know colleague has been barred from her department.

Sounds like a win for 'huffy' colleague.

I just feel sorry for this poor office junior, who has to put up with this kind of nonsense behaviour from senior colleagues, who she is supposedly meant to be learning from and looking up to, whilst being accused of doing what ever it is that clearly she did not do, on “”purpose”. In her original post the OP said about her junior colleague that; “She has form for doing things “to prove a point”. This probably can be translated to mean that she is just sticking up for her self, after having been made to feel disrespected by her senior colleagues.

Informing people where a meeting is being held or that you are delayed is "deeply unprofessional"?

As opposed to scheduling a meeting with a bunch of people you know are busy, not bothering your arse to turn up and putting all the blame on a junior member of staff?

I just laughed out loud at this.

Texting them is unprofessional, yet letting them turn up for a big, important meeting, and you essentially being a no show, is okay? Hardly the height of professionalism there!

If you work in an environment where you think digital communication is frowned upon (which is bizarre), then if you want to avoid your exact scenario you should make absolutely sure to be there early, so you don't have to rely on it.

Missing your own meeting which you set up months ago seems way more unprofessional than a text/email or waiting in reception for 5-10 minutes.

Ah behave.

Not turning up to meet them until 10 mins after your meeting started, letting your previous meeting over run is fine.

But text is unprofessional? Give over.

It really comes across you know this is, at least, partly your fault and trying to shift the blame.

I was feeling the same way. Businesses have their own "culture" and processes. Clearly, it's normal in this one to be reached by a member of the team when a client or visitor arrives. That happens in many places where you arrive, you are told they will find your person of contact, and then you are guided inside. The visitor was from the same company but another division, they won't feel put out because the host was wrapping up a previous meeting. In any case, they weren't even told. The support person they have on hire to do several tasks across teams decided not to check and answer OP wasn't there. I think that's unprofessional.