Supervisor tries bonding with younger staff, ends up exposed for gossiping after intern sends message to the wrong person: 'Happy to report that I’ve now transitioned to a different department'

Working for a company with a small team can feel a bit like working on a group project you can't escape. Everyone's close, everyone's tired, and everyone's pretending they don't hear each other's Slack notifications. At my last job, we all ate lunch together every day because "that's our culture," which mostly meant performative small talk and pretending we were all best friends. When a company is tiny, the walls feel even tighter, and the pressure to bond (especially with management) gets heavy fast.

And the truth is, as fun as it can be to vent about shared suffering or the coworker who loudly takes credit for breathing, you never really know who's listening. Or in this case, who's watching.

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