Another Dickhead

I ended up having it out with a co-worker in another department this week. This has been building to a head for a few weeks now. He is relatively new here but can't seem to grasp that it's not his company and he can't do whatever the fuck he wants. With this guy it's always, hey help me out, give me a discount, can't you do better, etc. He's been driving me nuts and he's been a constant problem for the last few weeks.

The final episode for me was the end of last week though. He asked me to order something for one of his customers, he gave the information, and of course, it was wrong. I called him, told him to double check because what he was asking for did not exist. He called back about an hour later, after I had already left for the day, and spoke with one of my co-workers who wrote down the correct information on the work order. I came in the the next day and she gave the information to order the parts. Everything was fine until that evening.

I get a phone call from said asshole. "Hey, whats up with the price of these?" I told him, that's what they are each. He says, "that's not the price you quoted me". I told him that I never quoted him a price, I assumed he used the tools available to him to get the price himself. So after some argument on his part and me remaining my calm, cool self, he freaks out, and says "your a lot of fucking help as usual" and hangs up on me.

As of now, I told my boss, I'm done with him, and I refuse to deal with him and I proceed to ignore him for the next few days. So that means he has now pissed off two of the three people in this department.

Saturday comes around and its only the two people that hate this guy in the department. I run to the rest room sometime around 9. As I come out, there's asshole waiting for me. He hold's out his hand and says sorry. I just said "no, I'm done with you" and walked by him.

He follows me to my department and we commence to arguing there for the next 15-20 minutes. He says "are you calling me a liar" and I said "this is how it went down, I don't know what's in your head, so yes." So after a little while I said that whatever happened, it should never get to the point that it did, I told him he has no right to treat a co-worker like that. He finally agreed to that and said it was just his temper. I said if it continues he was not going to have anyone to help him anymore.

I guess what I don't understand is the attitude that you can treat people like shit and then laugh it off like it's no big deal. Wrong. It's a big deal to me and I will not tolerate that kind of arrogance.