I’m so not getting into the details, but let’s just say that I pointed out to a new-ish employee something that he didn’t do quite right the night before (nicely – I’m ALWAYS nice), I heard a tone in his response that was shrug-it-off/I-don’t-care/I-hear-you-but-I’m-not-going-to-do-that, I was a little sharp in my reply, and he didn’t like it. So off we went to a meeting where he told me he didn’t like being treated that way.
Seriously?
We discussed it, and it’s resolved, and we’re back to behaving normally, but what a way to ruin my day by 9am. And to make me be extra-special careful around this one person and second-guess every interaction. Ugh.