the team i work with, has a senior and a couple of juniors. i made code changes and raised a pull request. for which my boss asked my colleagues to review. the senior and two of my juniors were reviewing my code. while reviewing my code and adding comments, the senior mocked me because the changes in my pr were suggested by juniors. and the juniors laughed at it. they were pretty much mocking and insulting me. so many passive aggressive comments were already being made by the senior but nothing was told to my face, unlike this day. hence i brushed it off.

it was high time i take this issue to my manager, so i go ahead and schedule a call with him and told him about how i felt targeted and cornered. how insulting it felt when a senior of mine got my juniors to mock my work and how i feel stressed which is not letting me work to my fullest potential. the manager tells me that the office is a friendly place where everyone is a friend to another and the culture is not really professional. i tell him that, this was done in a demeaning way and that there is nothing friendly about it. it really hurt me. the manager tells me that he'll look into the issue and talk to the team about it. he calls them and asks them about it.

the next day, these dudes start to be really nice to me. act like nothing has ever happened. try to mingle with me and i reciprocate the energy back.

a day before i let the manager know about what has happened, i confront the senior saying how it was wrong on his behalf and how he should be professional about it.

later, towards the end of the say i ask him what his problem with me is, he says i take things personally. i ask him to give me an example of the time i have been taking things personally, he brushes it off by leaving the place to get coffe and i repeat the question once he is back. he chuckles and points to a code review session where i was rude to him because of the comments he left on the pr. i asked him that instead of being petty why couldn't he talk to me about it to which he has nothing to say. and i also subtly tell him that he was discussing my work and answering my doubts to a know it all colleague instead of me, who should be working on it and when i try to discuss i get a blank stare and no answer. he says that he does not remember.

apparently when the manager asked him about it, he said that i was losing my temper and arguing with him when it was clearly a discussion and more of a confrontation. my manager kinda got sold to it because he has been with the company for quite a while

i exchange pleasantries with everyone including the senior and the two juniors that mocked me, who are being extremely nice to me since after the call and casually give into the conversation because everyone gossip a lot and don't want to be out of place and also make sure that there is no friction between me and team as the senior explicitly told me that one of the juniors who mocked me, does not find it easy to work with me and i have to talk and interact with him but this junior dude never really hesitated talking to me, or discussing work with me. on the other hand, i am a person who doesn't really gossip a lot so there's that.

so manager has been observing that i have been acting like normal with the team and passed a sly remark about how people act all chill and suddenly they have their moment where they lose it, which felt like a jab towards me, to which the senior jumps on the bandwagon and proceeds to add how easily people get triggered. i did not react. i act like its not my business like the rest of the team.

how do i let my manager know that i am being sportive and letting it go as everyone is being respectful and i am not the sort of a person to hold on to grudges and how the situation is so sensitive that the senior is projecting that junior in the team is not inclined to work with me while he im and I are alright so i am being open to communication and not playing politics?