We know the whites...

Basically someone to ask me to go get something but I didn't realise they needed it ASAP. So I went to get it but couldn't find it (so added about 2 minutes onto the total time taken), then I spent a minute chatting to someone and went upstairs to give it back.

I said 'miss me?' as I came up and they said 'yeah where did you go?'. I replied 'yeah I couldn't find X at first but I wasn't in a mad rush not gonna lie' (was referring to the minute conversation).

My colleague's point was 'if [insert two other colleagues] asked you to go get this you wouldn't act like that' (by her own admission she feels like she's not treated with the same respect as other people by certain colleagues) so it ties into a bigger problem and why she's inevitably leaving so I do understand her feelings. I'm still annoyed that she informed the GM when we really could've just sorted it between us (again, we are friends). Bizarre moments of madness or something aren't uncommon, especially just after you've started a shift and are still changing gear and in my defense it was quiet and I didn't realise they needed it right now. I'm not an unapproachable problem and I'm highly confident this isn't a re-occurring problem on my end.

It's possible my colleague didn't mean for it to go that way, like the boss just asked her why she was upset or she said something and he asked her to elaborate and he got it out of her in her defense. I guess I've just always thought employees should have each other's backs and going to management about a problem should really be a final resort.

Like say Mr Smith was late to work and my boss asked me I'd just say 'I don't recall what time they came in if I'm to be honest'. Or if I walked in on someone on their phone I'd just pretend I didn't see anything.

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