TLDR: I made a comment about coworker A to another coworker B about a task that she handed off too me. Coworker B told coworker A what was said & caused an unnecessary confrontation. I told the manager. Was I wrong?
A coworker of mine (person B) handed off an assignment to me that was handed off to her by another coworker (person A) who was leaving for the day. There is no staying past your time to “finish your work” because there’s a no overtime rule, so ‘Person A’ couldn’t complete the task.
‘Person B’ sees me in the hallway and asks if I can complete the task for her. The task is time sensitive with 1 minute to spare. The task needed to completed by 4:10pm. When ‘Person B’ asked me to do the task, I looked at my phone and it was 4:09pm and she says “I think it needs to be completed by 4:15pm or something like that.”
I KNOW ‘Person A’ said aloud that the task needed to be done by 4:10pm earlier before handing the task to ‘Person B’. But I do not know what was said to ‘Person A’ before ‘Person B’ handed off the task. So I trusted what ‘Person A’ told me: 4:15pm; since ‘Person A’ spoke to ‘Person A’ last.
I went to go complete the task and noticed that it needed to be completed by 4:10pm and the time was now 4:11pm. Because this task was now handed to me, if the task was NOT completed with in 2 minutes of 4:10pm, it would have caused a major problem and I would have been the culprit because I was the last person with the task.
I said this to a coworker (person C), who I thought I could trust, exactly that: “ ‘Person B’ gave me this task last minute and if I hadn’t completed it in time, this error would have fallen on me. I would have been reprimanded for that.” I didn’t say it nasty; I wasn’t angry or upset m; I wasn’t going to report ‘Person B’ because the mistake was caught— no hard no foul; and there was nobody around when I made this comment to person C. ‘Person C’ reassuringly says “that would not have fallen on you.”
‘Person C’ goes to ‘Person B’ and tells her about this comment (literally moments after I said it) and ‘Person B’ comes storming at me, upset, asking why I would say any of that because none of what I said is true. I felt myself becoming upset with her confrontation and with ‘Person C’. I said to ‘Person B’ that I wasn’t “going to argue about what she did or didn’t say [to me] regarding the task and if she says she didn’t say [what was said above], ok great, you didn’t say it.”
‘Person B’ continues to press the situation. Asking why I made a copy of the paperwork for the task and why I would say such things and that she has a witness (a 5th coworker). So again, I told her that if she believes she didn’t say it, then she didn’t say it, but I disagree. I told her I made a copy since 3 different people had hands on the task and if something was to go wrong, we’d have a copy. She demanded to know what could have gone wrong: lost paperwork would have resulted in having to restart/redo the task and since 3 people dealt with it and since I was the last one with it, management would have asked me about it first and I need to have the facts straight. But this could be avoided by having a copy.
Thoroughly annoyed, I went to the manager right away and explained what transpired. She said she would have confronted me too along the lines of “If you had a problem doing the task you should have spoken to me directly about it instead of complaining to the third party” I explained that I didn’t have a problem with the task and I would have been ok with that confrontation and if it was done privately, but it wasn’t and there were other people around. I acknowledged that I shouldn’t have said ANYTHING in the first place to ‘Person C’, but this situation didn’t need to be.
Was I right for going to the manager at this point?
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