'Please send messages for me directly to me': Employee gets back at petty coworker by only pointing out his errors in the team's group chat

Group chat decorum can be a source of plenty of tension among teams in the workplace. 

Sometimes, people spam channels with far too many messages that end up only affecting one or two individuals. No one needs to be getting all those notifications. Then, there are folks who choose to take the opportunity to criticize someone else's work as an "example" rather than privately messaging them. Nine times out of ten, this is not actually about giving the whole team a worthwhile lesson. Instead, it's really about a so-called "leader" singling a subordinate out unfairly, flexing their false sense of authority, and making a show of it along the way. Bosses like to feel like they are the boss rather than genuinely help team members out.

Keep scrolling below to see what happened when this employee clapped back at a petty coworker and used the group chat to give him a taste of his own medicine. For more stories like this, take a look at this post about an employee who managed to get out of responsibility despite having three separate bosses.

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