So some drama has been going down at my job lately because 95% of the staff hate one of our newer managers and today my GM was pulling each of us aside individually to ask us if we witnessed a certain incident that happened the other night where she (the manager everyone hates) got into an altercation with a staff member and sent them home.
There were a lot of messages in our group chat that night pertaining to that specific incident and just other complaints and things about this particular manager. Someone in the group must have showed our GM the chat because in addition to asking us about the incident at work, he asked us if we are in the group chat and if we saw anything in the group chat that night about it because they are “doing an investigation”. It was unclear though whether they are investigating the manager or investigating us for talking shit about her. The manager does already have multiple complaints from multiple staff members so they might be investigating her
I wasn't working the night in question so I just told him I didn't witness the incident and that I don't pay much attention to the group chat. I don't say much in the chat so even if someone showed it to him he can't prove whether or not I read everything in there. I'm just confused as to whether they should even be asking us about a private chat. The company does have a social media policy but i read it a long time ago and all i can really remember is that it basically said not to badmouth the company on social media. It is a snapchat group and not through our work messaging system if that makes a difference.