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Zoom accidentally sent meeting host transcript of coworkers private chat

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Oh haha, this has to be that Zoom feature where you save meeting transcripts and where host<->anyone transcripts are available to anyone who can view transcripts. Always found it weird that that was an automatic setting instead of a manual one. I get the use-case but defaulting to it is probably confusing.

Either FatShamer1 or FatShamer2 must have been the host and victim must have been a person with access to transcripts (which is every participant in case of the default Zoom cloud settings?). If neither FS1 nor FS2 were host then this wouldn't have happened.

Lol. That being a default feature is such a blatant oversight. I can't believe this is the first time i've heard about it

>Either FatShamer1 or FatShamer2 must have been the host

It doesn't sound like it; from TFA:

>I recently hosted a Zoom call for my work team.

Looks like this is documented here https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/203650445-In-Meeti...

"Note: Private messages between participants are not viewable by the host."

Yikes. While I think it's indicative of poor character to say unconstructive, cruel things about someone to their face or behind their back, I don't know if I believe they should be punished when there was a reasonable expectation that the target could never receive these remarks. Still, maybe it's for the best that cruel people sometimes lose in unfair ways.

I'm amazed that people would mock co-workers behind their back like that.

TBH, I'd be disgusted to work at a company with anyone like that, I'm impressed by the author's compassion at still wanting to work with such horrible people.

There is more at play here in my opinion, that points to why HR definitely should be involved. The behavior exhibited is clearly that of a toxic person to have on staff. If that is how an employee talks about colleagues, it’s only fair that any chance to catch the behavior will be dealt with swiftly. Remember, this is just the only time it was caught. And for all parties involved it is best that it gets dealt with.

Totally agree with t0mmel here. You're trying to build a team, in task as well as in spirit. You can't do that with one of the team members running around un-building the team.

If we do Zoom bug reporting, after you receive the confirmation email, you click the button in the email and a webpage loads asking if you enroll for a school or not. You normally have two check-boxes to answer Yes or No. On mobile, those check-boxes are not visible and you can not click anything (Yes, No or Continue).

A joke about a fat person being fat.

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