Just want to vent…So, I’ve recently moved to a new department at work and so far it’s been going well. My colleagues seem nice and it’s a super chilled out place to work. However, there’s one particular colleague in my line of work who has started to irritate me a little. I haven’t met him in person, but I’ve only heard negative things about him from other colleagues so it was strange to experience this negativity first hand. We only correspond via email and his tone in the emails is extremely patronising and condescending. As I’m still being trained in my new role, I’ve made a few errors here and there and the person training me has been so understanding and my line manager didn’t even speak to me about it because she knows me from the previous department I worked in and knows that I’m a good worker. However, this particular colleague always responds rudely via email and I was soooo close to responding in an equally rude and patronising way…I typed up a whole paragraph explaining that I was still new and learning the role etc…then I saved it in my drafts because I didn’t feel the courage to send it. Not because I’d written anything bad, but because I don’t want it to potentially turn into something going back and forth etc. I’m glad that I didn’t send it, but just curious to know how you would respond to such an email?