We hold a weekly webinar at work where there is a Q&A session. We can ask these via an anonymous platform.
i asked a question about an issue with a company policy I have been raising for a while.
My previous line manager accidentally outed me in the webinar chat by saying “I think Cataholic72 asked that question.
It was then quickly deleted.
That message was accidentally written in the webinar chat and was meant to be private between my ex manager and I assume my current manager.
I informed my Manager I had seen what they wrote. She pretended she didn’t know what I meant.
Then I received a grovelling message from ex manager saying she was just asking if it was me who had asked the question.
I felt embarrassed and humiliated that what was an anonymous question was effectively outed to 700 plus staff.
Ive had no apology for outing me.
Today I have been approached by a number of staff who said they saw me outed and said if it was them they’d be annoyed and upset.
I went to raise this but just feel Management wil make excuses and say it was done by accident and wasn’t malicious.
it wasn’t malicious and was by accident but was careless, and embarrassing.
What would you do if this happened to you.