Work related - Am I in the wrong?

[Music Fiend]

TL:DR
Mess up at work
Said it wasn't me (could have been tho)
It's no big deal
Coworker caught feelings
Yells at me in front of everybody and mangers launching personal insults and accusations
I ask him to quiet down and chill
He goes off again
Now I'm worried about losing my job



So this morning I walk into work (temp job while in school) and my team leader is running tests on something I built. The test fails and we find out one of the parts was made backwards.

They ask me did I do it and I don't remember making that part just putting it on what we built. The part was made two weeks ago and I usually make it but I'm pretty sure two weeks ago my other coworker made it and he never usually does it.

It only can be one of us (there's no reprecussion for the mess up either) so I just say it wasn't me but I'd fix it. Maybe I was wrong for not accepting responsibility but I don't think I did it.

So they ask my coworker whose 10 years my senior if he did it and he goes off saying I always make that part and starts yelling about it, drawin attention from our managers. He walks off, I fix it, and then proceeds to ignore me all day although we work right next to each other and always are cracking jokes.


So after lunch I come back in and just say "what's up grumpy?" Playfully. Thinking there's no way duke can be that mad. We always talk and mess with each other at work. He's like oh that's how u feel... And goes back to ignoring.

The end of the day rolls around and I'm reporting to my team leader what I got finished for the day and they playfully call him over and say "yo I think we need a team meeting" then they call me out like u got something to say? I just said nah.

Then dude goes off yelling even louder while out head manager of the company is standing next to us and everyone else in the room is looking.... about how I'm a liar and how I never take responsibility for my actions and how I don't care about my job. That he's seen me lie and say other people messed up thing I messed up and how I'm never going to learn in life. And how I always blame him. Going on and on and on. Talking about how I called him grumpy and that was wrong. (Nikka is 34 breh)

I just say it's not a big deal, no one cares who did it, the problem is fixed. If I did it then sorry but I don't recall doing it that week. I just told him to quiet down and stop being emotional and yelling at me in my workplace because it's disrespectful, especially when the managers who are in control of my job are listening. I just said I moved on from it this morning, but he's taking it personal and ignoring me when we have communicate to work together.

Nikka jumps up like EMOTIONAL?! I'm emotional!? He throws another fit and is yells when it happens tomorrow I'll say it to ur face! I'm done! U just my coworker. And reaches his hand out to shake mine.

I just walked off.

Now I'm a bit worried that my money might be messed up cuz my boss was just peeping everything like

Am I wrong?

 

[BocaRear]

Buy him a small gift in order to apologise breh, you getting into beef with him and he's 10 years your senior is not a good look and will possibly fukk up your money. Just swallow that pride even though this nikka does sound like a bytch

 

[sanityovar8ted]

iono i aint got no job

 

[TL15]

naw but forreal it sounds like homie just took it too personally...you can't control other people but make sure that you don't ever overreact. Emotional Intelligence is very important

 

[Doobie Doo]

I'd be like fukk him and that job. I learned at my job to leave emotions in the car otherwise I would have been snapped.

 

[Music Fiend]

Buy him a small gift in order to apologise breh, you getting into beef with him and he's 10 years your senior is not a good look and will possibly fukk up your money. Just swallow that pride even though this nikka does sound like a bytch

Lol at gift .

Dude acted like I personally insulted him. The team leader was expecting things to be jokes like always but it backfired and he was like

Only reason I didn't shake dudes hand cuz this is my homie at work. So if he's saying all this now, then that's how u really felt the whole time.

I can't fukk with a nikka that daps u every morning and acts like that.

 

[TEH]

Take it in stride. Don't let people in their feelings mess with your inner being. It's really too late to do anything else, just let it play out. Be cordial and be about your work. Worst case scenario get another job. I hope that this can be a lesson to you to save your money to build your own business later.

 

[Silkk]

You are his bytch

 

[Music Fiend]

You are his bytch

Not at all if anything he's my bytch. I kept it calm and told him he's emotional. Dude was acting out hard.

 

[BocaRear]

Lol at gift .

Dude acted like I personally insulted him. The team leader was expecting things to be jokes like always but it backfired and he was like

Only reason I didn't shake dudes hand cuz this is my homie at work. So if he's saying all this now, then that's how u really felt the whole time.

I can't fukk with a nikka that daps u every morning and acts like that.

It's not my money/career u feel me

 

[Silkk]

Not at all if anything he's my bytch. I kept it calm and told him he's emotional. Dude was acting out hard.

He punked you out in front of everyone at work & you had to clean up his mess

 

[PeridotPuss]

You're not wrong....but as a college student (maybe who is black) who has an older (and maybe more senior) employee who has a problem with you and valid work mess-ups (backwards parts whatever oh boy said about you not taking accountability....which i mean....you didn't do in this post either) you may want to start looking for a backup job so you have somewhere to land in the event you get cut....

a wise worker is always looking for another job

good luck!

 

[Shadow King]

No you weren't wrong. If you elevated to his level you'd be at greater risk to lose your job but I think you should be good. Just be cordial enough and KIM.

 

[Music Fiend]

Preciate yall. Maybe I did do it. Even if I did do it, there's no need to hurl out personal insults in front of coworkers or my boss.

Acting emotional and trying to tarnish my credibility as a worker where I drew the line. If he's seen me mess up and blame someone else then I'm sure he would have called me out right then and there. To sit there and not say anything and pocket it and bring it up to support your argument is bytchmade.

Most of the time he gets blamed its a joke, like yo "who didn't tighten it?!" Then we'lol look around and say dudes name and laugh. But it's never serious. They do the same to me and my other coworkers. Lil ish like that cracks a laugh and gets us through the day