CRINGE | Employee bashes boss in email which gets sent to…the boss

With all that has been going on this year – a global pandemic, a structural shift to remote-work first and a rapidly growing to-do list – HR could do without employee fallouts.

However, with increasing numbers of individuals feeling burnt out and it being very easy to misconstrue meaning via Zoom, Slack or Teams, it’s likely that cross words and antipathy to colleagues might set in.

Even letting off steam is likely to take place in a digital setting – with employees emailing or virtual messaging to explain how they’re stressed.

Which is exactly what one person did about their boss to a colleague. However, the message in which they vented about their manager to a work friend then got sent forward to the manager.