Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : Buckle up. Long Story Time!   


I (22 Year old Female) used to work at a bank as an Audio Visual technician, and our Team Lead left, leaving a spot to fill. Instead of hiring a new Lead, they promoted me, and found a new technician (36 Year old Male, Married, 2 Year old Daughter) to fill my job role. 

As the new lead, I was in charge of training this new tech, who had no prior experience in AV, so I went back to basics, and essentially went real slow with the training and explaining everything fully. I thought I was being careful and considerate by really being thorough, BOY I was wrong. 

We'd gone into the storage room to sort through some old kit that needed to be thrown away. He picked up a bunch of cables, and just threw them straight into the recycle box. I politely asked him why he did that, and he just said they need to be thrown. He hadn't even looked at what cables they were. I've literally turned round and said "Don't be so ignorant, separate the cables out and test them before you just thrown them away. They could still be useful". No word of lie, hes gone fucking bonkers at me.. "Stop talking to me as if I am stupid. I am a 36 Year Old Man, with a respectable job, a loving wife and a 2 Year old daughter. I do NOT need to take orders from a self-involved 22 year old woman who thinks she can boss me round". Oh boy. I lost the plot. I've only gone and literally shouted at the top of my lungs "Don't talk to me as if I am a fucking baby". Safe to say, everyone and their mum heard in the office. 

I took a step back from training him from this point. I couldn't be asked to deal with someone so highly strung that they thought the world evolved round him, so I assigned one of the other AV techs (a man) the task of training him. A couple days later I was approached by this tech and he asked if we could speak privately. He explained to me that this nut job had spent the last few days bitching the hell about me.. "She's a woman, I don't need to take orders from her. She's young enough to be my daughter. She's stupid. She's blonde. Who the fuck put her in charge" You name the insult, he said it about me.   


I spoke to my Account Manager and he was moved to Hardware, and a week later, he was removed from site entirely.   


No one ever really confirmed to me whether I was the reason he was removed from site, but a week after he was removed from site I heard that he was raising a complaint about me in the workplace. "Unfair dismissal" he said.   


I got my account manager and colleague to vouch that this guy was a basic bitch nut job, and we heard nothing since.   


So my question is, AITA for getting this man fired? 