'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

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Sep 21, 2024 8:00 AM EDT

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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    "Please message me in the group chat" alright, but you won't like it
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    I have a coworker I don't get along with. I tried being friendly with him when I first started, but he listened to a coworker
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    who worked in my unit and she only ever spoke badly about me. She later admitted it's because she "has a hard time making friends, is shy and sometimes being a little bit mean helps her open up."
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    Anyway, this coworker guy is ONLY ever nice and helpful to the girls. For the longest time I was the only guy in my unit.
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    That meant that if he had info he needed to share to me, he would take it to my boss. If he had info to share to anyone else in my unit he would come bearing gifts. Usually
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    Mexican or Japanese snacks. He prefers his private messages to be only from the girls in the office. Recently he directly told me to only message him in the group
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    chat. If it hasn't been for the way he told me I would have been ok. There are managers in the group chat, time stamps, etc.
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    I began to message him in the group chat but only to point out his errors, showing that he was making people wait up to an hour to hear from him
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    on issues that normally take 2-5 minutes to get a response back on, sending messages that people are on hold for him and implying that he should be taking calls he
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    promises to take and not leaving them to flirt with girls in the office. In the last hour of the day he came back to me and just quickly said "please send messages for me directly to me."
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    I didn't. He was very stern in needing messages for him in the group chat.
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    South-St... 3h ago . I'd love for a higher up to scroll through those private messages only from girls...
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    Tiger_Str... 3h ago If he's a union rep, file a grievance with the hall.
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    Dapper_... . 3h ago I'd also go to HR. You're already doing okay by thinking this other dude is not acting in good faith. Keep it up and report his behind.
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    . ddy3825 2h ago lol, petty revenge - best served in group chat...
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    techieguy... • 1h ago Have him text you, screenshot it, and file a grievance with the union using the screenshot.
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    Contran... 51m ago . I love that you didn't back down. He better have either gotten fired or straightened his Q out.
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