Dear bat-shit, insecure, control-freak "colleague,"

Yes, all of the librarians made time to do much needed weeding in the reference collection. You, of course, did the most pissing and moaning about this - whingeing on, ad nauseam, about all of your personal problems and scheduling conflicts. Said issues, challenges and other matters irrelevant to your professional duties were also the reason that you could not actually be there when the rest of us made decisions (some provisional, some not) about which items to withdraw.

Of  course, instead of making a note of which of these decisions you wanted to question, challenge or discuss and bringing this to a civilized professional forum, you took this personally, stewed about it for over 24 hours, and then decided to confront me - as though I somehow bore sole responsibility for the decisions that you didn't agree with.

And - did you have this confrontations in a private space, where we could have a frank and animated discussion? No, of course not. True to form, you used your typical passive-aggressive tactics to try to create an emotional distraction - to upend the chessboard, so to speak.

And then, perhaps temporarily addled by hormonal imbalance, or some other psycho-chemical pathology (or perhaps by design, who can tell?), you somehow determined that an opportune time to have a confrontation would be in my instruction classroom, as students were still filing out, and a faculty member was standing there looking on.  

Did you think that by screaming at me and creating a scene that I would - what - apologize and ask forgiveness? Did you think that you could create a situation that would send me scurrying to the director insisting that I and all the other librarians were complete morons and that, now, under your brilliant guidance, we saw the error of our ways and begged to retract our decisions? WHAT KIND OF FUCKING IDIOT DO YOU TAKE ME FOR ?

More to the point - for how long do you actually believe that you can continue to behave in this way before it catches up with you? Certainly, the director is beginning to weary of your continual whining. That's obvious, even to the casual observer.

I actually haven't yet decided how I'm going to proceed in this matter. Clearly, this needs to be documented. Indeed, I'd even be within my rights to file a formal complaint to HR for harassment - "creating a hostile working environment," etc. Suffice it to say, I am holding all the best cards here. Revenge, as they say, is a dish best served cold.