Should I get my colleague to apologize to me?

I have this colleague on my team who is new (less than 6 months).

I recently showed them how to do this report as they’ll be taking over this report for me. My boss tasked them to update a schedule full of reports and they were responsible for adding that report that I showed them onto the list.

After my meeting with them, they asked me to update the schedule. I was confused since this is something that they should be doing so I asked for clarification on Teams. Their response still wasn’t clear (and frankly it seems like they wanted me to do their work for them). I ended up saying that I thought my boss wanted to have them do this task specifically. That was when they got angry and said that in the time that we’ve been talking the update could’ve been done and that they’ll do the task. They then said “THANK YOU” angrily and hung up.

I was so taken aback and honestly scared that they would act like this. Outside of work we get along. I actually ended up doing the task for them (honestly out of fear…also to look like the bigger person).

But now I feel like I wouldn’t be able to work with this person very well because of how they’ve behaved. Like I feel like things would be awkward.

Should I get them to apologize? Or should I just continue to document their behaviour and swallow my pride and move on until they’ve exhibited enough incidences that I can confront about them?



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