I’ll admit it, I’m annoyed.
I saw a coworker ask for something to be set up. I had just finished setting up exactly that for another team, so I offered to either to the work, or show him how to. He was interested.
Meanwhile the team he’d initially asked came back to him, they’re too busy for a month or two. That’s believable. I mentioned to their lead I had made this offer, and it would therefore be something they didn’t have to worry about, unless they wanted to own it.
His response irritated me. He didn’t like the technology I was using. I gave him my reasons, and mentioned it would be a rapid setup. He said X other way would be faster…
All the while, I’m thinking “Huh? You’re not going to be doing the work for at least a month, so it’s not really faster is it? I mean if it was as easy as you’re saying, why the hell are you pushing this other guy off? Why do you dislike my solution so much, especially if it reduces the amount of work you have to do?”
I managed to stay polite, but I was pretty offended. I offered to walk back my offer (thus taking the role of bad-guy), and even that didn’t provoke a reasonable response.
He’s not my boss, and I’m pretty glad about that. I like being appreciated, and having someone back-seat doubting my decision was pretty demoralizing.
I say again he didn’t like my solution, but was not going to provide an alternative within a reasonable period of time.