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by tw04 1797 days ago
On the one hand, they should have known better than to use netflix communication channels to talk negatively about work/bosses.

On the other hand, it's a REALLY bad look for Netflix to fire employees for chatting negatively about their boss in private messages. The whole "we're radically transparent" sounds like a horrible excuse for someone's ego getting bruised. I guarantee there are hundreds if not thousands of private chats on their slack with employees complaining about coworkers.

I presume they're now combing through every private chat and terminating any employee who said something negative about a coworker? No?

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It's unclear if these were private messages. It's possible these were posted on public channels. AFAIK, Slack doesn't allow companies/IT access to private messages unless there are legal implications.
There are multiple articles about the issue and it literally states they were private messages in them.

https://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-fires-marketing-exec...

> Netflix has fired three senior executives within its film marketing team for airing complaints via private Slack messages

Yes, slack absolutely allows IT to view your private messages.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/1/24/21079275/slack-private-...

As far as I know you can ask a complete dump of their DB through a simple GDPR request.
>"we're radically transparent"

Didn't Ray Dalio patent that or something?