My coworker's passive-aggressive posting about our job on social media is making everyone uncomfortable.
By @zanefr · Work
A person on my team is constantly posting vague complaints about 'corporate life' and bad managers. We're all connected online, so everyone, including our bosses, sees it.
The full story
There's a coworker on my team, let's say early 20s, who treats their public social media like a personal burn book. Every other day it's some passive-aggressive post like, 'Love when your ideas are 'collaborated' on and then presented by someone else,' or 'Another day of smiling through meetings that should have been an email.' The issue is, their profile isn't private. We're a pretty connected office, so a good chunk of the department, including our direct manager and even our director, follow them. We all see the posts. The secondhand embarrassment is excruciating. It creates this bizarre, unspoken tension in the office. You'll see the post the night before, and then the next morning you're in a meeting with them and the manager they were clearly subtweeting, and everyone has to pretend they didn't see it. It's unprofessional, but just vague enough that calling it out would seem like an overreaction. I'm just waiting for the day they slip up and post something specific enough to get a meeting with HR. It feels like watching a slow-motion career crash.
How people voted
- Bad Move — 27% (33 votes)
- Needs Context — 40% (48 votes)
- Reasonable — 33% (40 votes)
Readers are split: “Needs Context” leads with 40% — 121 votes and 5 comments so far.
What people are saying
@karayy — I'm getting secondhand anxiety just reading this.
@danikindof — We had someone at my old job who did this constantly and they did not last long lol. HR eventually got involved.
@maybeitsme — Management has no business following their employees on social media in the first place.
@actuallynope — That's classic passive-aggressive behavior; they want the attention without the confrontation.
@ashkinda — Why is their profile public if they're going to complain about their job?
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