How venting to colleagues—on company platforms, or off—can backfire

Talking smack about your boss in a Slack DM (or even personal text) might come back to haunt you.

Grating coworkers, tone-deaf bosses, a ninth ask for revisions on a PowerPoint deck—as the workday annoyances pile up, it’s only a matter of time before every worker hits a boiling point. And when they do, they often hit up a trusted colleague to vent to in a direct message on a platform like Slack or Teams.