[adastra22]

Request access to former employee’s corporate email and reset the password.

[morkalork]

Hah, that would be the trick wouldn't it. My old manager used to get all of his former employees work emails forwarded to an account he had access to. Ostensibly it was a precaution against accidentally missing anything critical from a vendor or partner.

[sillysaurusx]

Yep. That’s how it happened for me.

[planede]

Ouch. My takeaway is that I should probably delete my slack account before leaving the company.

[exitb]

The takeaway is that no message on Slack should be considered private.

[bluescrn]

I'd extend that way beyond that, to anything done on a company system/network/device.

If you need privacy, use your personal phone (and don't connect it to the company wifi)

[wil421]

Why would anyone consider a company provided messaging service as private? Or even a company provided laptop, cellphone, etc.

[adastra22]

People have terrible opsec.

[TimTheTinker]

Because private messages carry an expectation of privacy.

They're different parts of speech from the same root word, after all.

[voidfunc]

The only expectation of this is in your head. It is a fantasy that doesn't exist.

[adastra22]

There’s no legal obligation of privacy on a work system though. Not in the US at least.

[delfinom]

Slack keeps those messages even if you delete the account when you leave. It's a data retention setting.

[hiatus]

Deleting company data before leaving probably won't end well.