Idk how self-incriminating I’ll get here but basically, a colleague was being slighted by another (one who’s always known for doing this, in person and on channels). So employee A sent an email to our higher ups with how recurring and slightly discriminatory the slight was (it made light of the girl having ADD accommodations).

Fast forward to today, we had a meeting derived from it and admin went in about people s*** talking each other. They revealed that they dug into the computers (which are theirs) and checked our Slack after hours. Gave the we’re embarrassed, lost respect, etc talk. They’re going to do individual meetings to discuss further

As you can probably guess by me bothering to make this thread, I participated in a lil bit of “gossip” (being honest about others). On a range of 1-10, how f***ed am I? I’m thinking a 6-7, but they gave me a raise like last week so maybe I’ll get off easy?

you'd have to spill the extent of the gossip

you should be fine. they'll prob just tell you to be mindful

Never use work computer for things you’d be embarrassed of your employer seeing

Depends how bad the gossip was but im sure youll be fine

The way they put it to us is that they found evidence of people ganging up on each other, insulting each other, insulting the job, insulting the processes of the job, saying inflammatory things about the company founder who recently passed away

Idk how much of that would get designated to me per se, since we use free slack and the messages expire after 90 days. I think I’ve said enough stuff to probably get fired but many of my worst messages would’ve been expired by now

That being said, they presented it like this is going to be a fresh start going forward, so I’m guessing it’s so pervasive it’s not just me or the couple people I chatted with

in the future be the person where gossip comes to die

That’s why you keep it 100% professional over slack, teams, etc

You've gotta assume by default that they can see anything

Wat u doing

Fully depends on how bad it is compared to your colleagues, they’re probably gonna let the worst 1 or 2 people go as warnings. Rest should be fine, they can’t fire a whole team.

As a huge Drake fan who gives a s***, stand on business unless you were being a weirdo

this is why these jobs deserve to get automated

this is literally high scjooly

I bet u made this thred on ur work computer too

Beat them to the punch and start snitching ASAP

honestly ur regarded for talking crazy like that on slack wtf lol

Bro acts like texting your co-workers don’t exist

Most HR depts have a policy saying that it's perfectly fine for employees to vent/share opinions to other employees about their peers and leaders in private one-on-one or group chats. You arent f***ed at all.

Who is f***ed is the employee that was openly talking about a coworkers FMLA accommodations... Nobody in the office is even supposed to know about those outside of management, unless the person with accommodations has volunteered that info to her coworkers. But even then, talking about a coworker's FMLA accommodations like that is a huge NO-NO... Most HR depts also have some kind of "safe/respectful work environment" policy saying topics like those are strictly under a "mind your own f***ing business" protocol.

But follow this rule ^^ generally tbh. Even though HR will be like "so what?" if your boss complains that you're talking bad about them or your peers in company chats to others, not gossipping at all will save you a lot of negative mental health and stress in the long run

Dudes really go to work and become females lol chatty ass. Do your job and clock out. Why you gossiping like schoolgirls on professional channels

Serves you right being a chatty patty ass nigga