I feel like I need to be singing this to quite a few people these days. Look no one likes to be wrong but I will fully admit "yo, my bad" if I make a mistake. But for the love of...*argh*...stop harping on it.
What REALLY annoys me is when people harp on something that wasn't even your mistake but somehow you got blamed for it. Rather than be an ass and correct them all the time I just laugh and go haha, uh huh, okay *big cheesy smile*. But if it has been over a year and you are still bent out of shape because of it and using humor to cover your apparent irritation, YOU have a problem!
It wasn't even my mess up. It was a miscommunication between internal operations at their company. Basically they (more than one person) took something I said and misconstrued it and then got fussed because of the mistake. The 1st time it was mentioned was in a meeting with 7 people!!! And it was about 4 months after it happened. *completely blindsided* I didn't even know there was a situation. Now they keep reminding me (and my boss and their boss) about it. Like all jokey and funny but it is not funny. Every time it is mentioned my boss is like, wow they are still holding on to that. And I always re-explain that I didn't say that! I was either misquoted or misunderstood but I did NOT say that. My boss thankfully laughs and says I know. But these other people that hear this stupid jibe don't know me and don't know the situation so they may think, "wow, this chick really messed up". When they need something, they wont call me but call my boss. Which then irritates my boss because I am supposed to be their go to contact. I should be the 1st call and then if it needs to go higher it does. How am I supposed to gain their confidence if they think I will eff it up from the get go?!?!?
And the lack of confidence is based on something that 1.) happened over a year ago and 2.) wasn't entirely my mistake! Sooooo frustrating!!!
More than likely this person isn't doing it to be mean necessarily. Honestly, if they knew how bad they are making me look I think they would stop but I really think they think they are being "cute" or "flirty" or "funny" by teasing me. I just don't know how to address it and not look like a douche nozzle. *le sigh*
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