AITA for taking my coworker completely at her word when she made a sarcastic comment about me in a meeting and it blew up her own project
so theres this coworker whos got a thing she does. in group settings she makes comments at my expense framed as jokes. not cruel exactly, just pointed. the kinda thing where everyone in the room knows whats happening but nobody says anything cuz its technically a joke
shes been doing this for about a year now. ive let most of it go honestly
a few weeks back we were in a planning meeting. there was this piece of a project that needed an owner. and it wasnt glamorous work. time consuming, kind of a slog, the kinda thing nobody was rushing to claim
she looks at me across the table and goes something like well im sure our resident expert could handle that with her eyes closed
sarcastic. obviously. everyone in the room knew it was sarcastic. she was doing the thing she does
and i just went great, sounds good, happy to take that on, ill need full access and the appropriate budget to do it properly
she looked. momentarily caught. i confirmed with my manager that i was being added to the project and we moved on
3 weeks later she comes to me and says she actually needs that piece back cuz it connects to something else shes working on
i told her id already started and things were going well and i didnt wanna disrupt the work
she went to our manager. manager asked me what had happened. i said she had offered it to me in front of the whole room and id accepted
the managers were mildly annoyed at both of us. my coworkers was furious and not really speaking to me
AITA?