Not sure if this is the right place to post this but looking for help with a slack question.
So my coworkers and I were messaging each other via a private slack channel yesterday and my boss had gone to the restroom. We realized that every time we sent one another a private message on slack, his laptop's notification pinged. We tested this a bunch and there is no way it was a coincidence – each time we sent one, it immediately pinged.
From my research, slack doesn't allow workplace admins/owners to view employee messages in real time, they would have to export the messages to read them.
I haven't sent anything crazy over slack but I still feel kind of weird if he's reading them and would just like to know.
Is it possible he's got some way to read our private messages as we send them? Is there any other explanation for why he'd receive notifications for our private channel? We use company MacBooks if that matters.