When a 34 year old acts like a 12 year old boy when he doesn't get his own way.
I am in charge of a recruiting event for tomorrow to take a lot of people out for a corn maze. All the details have been expressed and have been known by everyone. We have 25 people going, along with my coworker. My coworker texts me today, complained because we are leaving at 530pm in order to get to the corn maze and he needs to pick up his car in the shop right at 5pm (we are leaving at 6pm for the corn maze) and wants to have dinner. And it's stressing him out.
I apologized that he is feeling stressed about this but that maybe he can come later to the corn maze to meet with us. Since we are having a large group already going, I feel changing the time for one person will add so much confusion.
He proceeds to get angry at me because I won't change the time, I calmly tell him it's because we have reservations right at 6. He demands that we need to "talk" after our lunch break, and I said, "Are you telling me or asking me? I definitely do not want you to feel stressed! But, changing the time after planning this for 4 weeks, at the last minute for one person just doesn't make sense. If you do want to talk, I will be doing some recruiting stuff and will not be at the office, but you can come where I'll be and we can talk and I can hear you out!"
I am waiting for a response.
Sorry, I would never expose this kind of stuff out over Interwebs or just to anyone. But, I just don't understand. It's about control and he's making it about him. As much as I want to change the time for him, it's going to affect all the rest.
Ugh. I don't know. Lol.