'Your coworker is a child': Coworker accuses employee of being responsible for having to pay $4,000 for hotel room

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    Sleeve - "Your coworker is a child"
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    Font - AITA for allegedly causing my coworker to lose out on $4,000? My coworker and I have been chosen to attend a work- sponsored international conference at the end of the year. As the conference has 1100+ attendees, the workshops and discounted hotel rooms fill up/sell out pretty quickly. I've been monitoring the conference website daily and even shared the site with my coworker. On the day the registration opened/discounted hotel rooms became available, I texted my coworker early in the mor
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    Font - My coworker replied to my text asking if I could book him a room to which I replied I couldn't because the hotel required a lot of info that I didn't have. When I got into work, he was visibly upset. He showed me a printed invoice for a hotel room that he had booked on a third-party travel site that added up to $4,000 and was non- refundable (the discounted price I paid was around $1800). In addition, he had the conference website open and was complaining that the link to the discounted h
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    Font - I was in shock as this coworker prides himself on being the least impulsive/fiscally responsible person in the office. I didn't want to upset him further so I offered to help him look up the cancellation policies for the booking company. He became increasingly upset and finally I asked if he wanted me to just leave him be to figure it out. He raised his voice, "Yeah, leave me alone!"
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    Font - Later on in the day, I attempted to check in on him to which he ignored me. When I went to turn in my travel info to our boss, my boss mentioned that my coworker had cancelled his reservation with the booking site and was waiting to see how much he could recuperate.
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    Font - It's been three days and today I confronted my coworker to talk about what happened. He angrily replied, "If you aren't going to help me to get my $4,000 back, we have nothing to talk about." I was in disbelief as it sounded like he is blaming me for his actions. I feel really bad for him possibly losing out on this much money but AITA?
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    Font - Beck2010 2 hr. ago Colo-rectal Surgeon [31] Time to have a meeting with your supervisor. Screenshot and print the text exchange and present it to your manager. He/she/they need to deal with your coworker. Tell them exactly what has occurred since the site went live. Your coworker's inability to book a room in a discounted block is NOT your fault or issue. NTA. And if it continues, you need to go to HR. 1.0k Reply Share
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    Font - Little-Martha31204 - 2 hr. ago Certified Proctologist [23] NTA. Why didn't he just do what you did and book it himself? You were nice enough to give him a heads up. 425 Reply Share
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    Font - MrsMaisels Brisket 2 hr. ago INFO: I'd love to know if you're a woman. Men seem to always expect women to do this for them. 267 Reply Share
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    Font - Binge Gaming - 2 hr. ago ΝΤΑ You're not responsible for his poor decision making. He had access to all the same information as you, and you even pointed him in the right direction. Why he chose to book through someone else, or try and blame you for his apparent impatience is beyond me. ΝΤΑ 176 Reply Share
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    Font - 1u53r3dd1t 2 hr. ago NTA - Your co-worker is a child. Exactly ZERO parts of this are your doing or fault. This is 100% their doing and their m as to either clean up or live with.
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    Font - ShowMeYourWifesAss 2 hr. ago NTA, it sounds like your coworker is upset about what happened but really it's their own fault. I would just give this person some space and see how they're feeling in the future
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    Font - . drownigfishy 2 hr. ago NTA he is the AH. There was no way for you to reserve his room for them. They should know that. You gave him heads up and he failed/could not do it. Not your bad at all. He needs to grow up and stop acting like a child.
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    Font - pange_the_adventurer. 2 hr. ago NTA unless you gave him the 3rd party link, but it sounds like you didn't. He's a grown man, he can figure this out. You did nothing wrong
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    Font - phoenix_ekawa. 2 hr. ago NTA. Come on. You researched well in advance. You found something. Instead of keeping it yourself you shared link and messaged when it opened. That itself is above and beyond. You couldn't book for him cause of details. He isn't your responsibility. He need to take accountability for his own actions instead of blaming you.
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    Font - Trespassingw2 hr. ago NTA. As a last resort, I'd ask my credit card to refund this payment because the service was never used. Sometimes it works.
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    Font - Maleficent_Owl9248 2 hr. ago NTA. Your coworker is projecting on you. Seems like because they made a mistake, they are trying to pass the blame on a semi-sub- consious level and you seem to be the easy target at the moment.
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    Font - fruskydekke 2 hr. ago NTA, and I would drop the topic from now on - as other have said, this is all on him, and I don't understand why you're feeling bad about his poor decisions.

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