AIBU after being reported for apparently targeting a member of staff

[Vintageshirtsearch]

OK no one is going to believe this to be true but I need to share it. I was spoken to today by my line manager as I've been reported in our 'call it out' policy. I made a member of staff feel targeted and picked on.
I bet you won't be able to guess what I did that made them feel so bad.
It's so crackers I actually thought my manager was joking.
Anyone want to guess?

Well, they don’t, but, whatever.

Would you say TS is very very important to you and your enjoyment in life @Swiftie1878 ?

No.

One of the previous posters LITERALLY said she was just a girl who wanted a private wedding

Ok that’s good!

Do you think you’d take leave if, heavens forbid, TS tragically passed or jacked in career and was never seen again?

NRTFR but have read OPs
comments and she does come across as scathing of things she finds ridiculous and is adding fuel to the online fire by making a game out of it here. I can only guess this behaviour extends beyond online forums and it has probably been the final straw for the TS
fan who has felt ridiculed over different things for a while.

I don’t like TS but I know a few TS obsessives and they do get possessive and odd with their parasocial relationship with her. Generally they don’t keep their fandom a secret for long and it doesn’t hurt to go along with their enthusiasm even when I’d rather be pulling out my own teeth. In the interaction it sounds like OP had to be right by correcting the TS fan, their opinion on the matter so much more important than preserving workplace peace. It is a means of belittling younger people OP. Valuing your own grown up opinion over their childish one and I would put money on this not being the first time you’ve been like this with her and you might not even realise because that toxic part of you is so ingrained that you don’t know it exists.

I’ve worked with many people like you over the years and they too would be affronted to think they were the bully.

Hello OP's colleague. Welcome to the thread.

Having been a victim of actual workplace bullying, the idea that this silly young woman has in any way, shape or form been 'bullied' is so insulting it's not even funny.

Projection much?
I cannot find any post where I have been scathing

Never hurt a Swiftie’s feelings.
They’re terribly awfully horribly sensitive.

So what’s the upshot of you being reported @Vintageshirtsearch ?

Don't think anything else will happen. My line manager was great and very common sense about it. I have taken on board the pps who said not to leave the written response so I'll chat to her about that when I go back

I never knew this until this happened!

Well. I was expecting it to be something really trivial. But honestly? I think you overstepped the line by a country mile.

All you can do is to sent T and T a nice toaster, or a set of silicone kitchen tools or some John Lewis tea towels and hope they find it in their generous newly wedded hearts to forgive you.

Then change your name and emigrate.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

So… no consequences at all? Just a friendly chat with line manger?

consequences for what exactly?

being reported

There cannot be any consequences for me saying I didn't understand the hype of TS . I haven't done anything wrong. My manager wrote that it was a personal opinion (I'm going to talk to her about editing it so that I am directly quoted so future managers can see what exactly I said and that it wasn't contentious

I was just asking as curious
so basically line manager had a friendly word
Matter closed?

I'm assuming so. I'm going to ask if the complainer has spoken to and told it wasn't a basis for a proper complaint too

I'm so glad I don't work at all, I'm retired thank God.

Maybe when I next go in I'll shout "harry styles is a twat" and see what happens

I imagine it’s the talk of the shop amongst all your colleagues!