IT employee blames coworker for missed deadline, gets upset when he refuses to cover his weekend shift: 'I looked like the difficult one'

In this story, a man who worked in IT support had been frustrated by his coworker in the same department. They had to have a meeting with their manager about the excessive amount of time it was taking to resolve some customer tickets.

During the meeting, this colleague blamed the man for making the process slower, despite the fact that they had collaborated on a certain approach to solve the issue.

After this incident, he texted him asking if he would be able to cover a weekend shift for him because he had some family commitments. The man refused on the grounds that he had unfairly made him look bad in front of their manager. He wasn't sure if he was being too harsh.