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My boss posted my performance review in the group chat by accident last Friday
I work at a small marketing agency in Austin and our manager sent a message to the whole team Slack channel that was clearly meant for HR - it had all my ratings and comments about my 'attitude issues' in it. She deleted it after 3 minutes but everyone in the office saw it first, now half the team is side-eyeing me and the other half is asking what I did wrong. How do you even bring this up without making things worse?
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jana_miller314mo ago
This feels like just another version of what happens everywhere now. People blur the lines between public and private spaces constantly. I've seen coworkers post personal complaints on company social pages, accidentally share private DMs in group texts, all of it. Technology makes these mistakes way too easy, and the fallout is always the same. Now everyone knows your business when they shouldn't.
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michael_jones2mo ago
Maybe it's just me but I don't see the side-eyeing as the main problem here. Your boss made a mistake that put private stuff out there, and now you're the one getting weird looks instead of her. Feels like the focus should be on her messing up, not on whatever "attitude issues" someone thinks you have. The people asking what you did wrong are being rude honestly, that's between you and your manager, not office gossip material.
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wright.michael4mo ago
That 3 minute window before she deleted it is the real problem here. If it was up for 3 minutes, people had time to read it, screenshot it, and talk about it before you even knew what happened. The side-eyeing you're getting is probably because they read the "attitude issues" part and now they're wondering if you're the one who's hard to work with. The ones asking what you did wrong are being nosy, not helpful. Have you asked your boss directly what she plans to do to fix the damage she caused with her mistake?
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