Need some advice. A coworker who I thought was also a friend (we've hung out several times outside of work and seemed to have a lot of fun together) was complaining about something that I didn't agree with. I let her know that I didn't agree and was a bit upset with what she'd said. Well it started world war three!
She's now talking about how we're not friends, removed me from her facebook friends list, told other people she's going to try to get moved to another department, and so on and so on.
I'm totally thrown by how disagreeing with her over something that really isn't that big of a deal turned into..well.. just that.
I guess my question is - given this situation would you apologize for having an opinion just to smooth things over? Ignore it and hope it goes away? Obviously any options of friendship are over at this point but I'm just not sure how to keep going on at work we are in a small space and can't exactly avoid each other.
I'm really upset about this whole thing. Other coworkers seem to think she's just nuts and don't get what the big deal is... and that I shouldn't have to apologize for answering her question honestly. But I just want things to be easy at work, you know?
Thanks for listening and any advice that follows.