I feel really shocked this has blown up.
Just returned to work after time spent in a different role and returned to my usual job a few weeks ago. I spotted an issue that could have become quite serious and highlighted to team and management. I've alot of experience in different specialities other than area I'm currently working in.
A senior seems to be stalling the end result of the project I've been working on despite it being fully ready to go . Management know this and have complemented my work to date.
I sent an email asking for decision from senior to submit project and had no response so when I brought the project up the next morning casually i was met with real vengeance by senior who tried to imply I was pressuring him.
I backed off and went over to speak with other colleague about a different matter when senior implied he'd still been talking to me and said i wasnt replying back to acknowledge what he had said, when i genuinely hadnt heard him responding further. He forcefully implied I hadn't acknowledged him when I hadn't heard him as i was alreadyin conversation with other colleague.
I brought up later with my other colleague who was present for incident that I don't appreciate being spoken to like that and we agreed I'd keep out of seniors way and go to her if i needed any advice on matters.
Next week senior caught me when no-one else there and said I was unprofessional on the matter. He didn't give me any chance to reply and said if I want to speak further on matter I'd need to have management present as if i was being disciplined. He denied i had tried to engage in the conversation and pretended to management that I didn't know what he was talking about!!. The look in his eye was complete anger I just backed off in a sense of my instinct as to how mad he was really. I said I'm sorry you're annoyed but I would like to talk about it. At which point he said I'll only talk about it again with management present.
I was taken totally off guard that I was being blamed as unprofessional when he was completely rude not giving me a chance to speak.
To be clear when I say senior , he's more a role of service improvement not my line manager or direct supervisor . I had been offered the same post in the service as his last year but declined as its not my area of longterm interest and I've other goals I'm working on outside of work. So I'm not trying to ' out- do' him.
I was so angry about it I spoke with manager privately he held a mediation meeting to both air our sides. Senior wouldn't accept my version of events in the meeting and then said I can be hard to give feedback to on other occasions. I was completely astonished as I have had so few direct project work with this senior I defended myself and he lost it.
Manager Is putting it down to different communication styles but I really think senior doesn't like me personally or the experience I have and cause I have other skills that he feels I'm not easily manipulated .
I'm annoyed at myself as I didn't defend myself properly in meeting with senior when manager mediated as I was worried senior would make my life hell after in the office environment.
Am I being paranoid?