My suggestion:

Go ask for clarification with your manager (on 1 to 1 talk) on what she meant in the chat group, IF that really bothers you.
Just pretend you don't understand the context.

My American female manager also tends to make me "loose face" in front of new comer/staff, by asking me a lot of basic questions/or like I'm the culprit of the issue (when I'm not).
I just interpret it as that's her way of "teaching" the new staff, because I'll have to explain to everyone (especially in front of the new staff) how things works.

I did told her that I'm not comfortable to be put "on the spot" (just a phrase that represented that the spotlight was shining onto me like on the stage) in front of the new staff.
She agreed that she did put me "on the spot" and stopped doing that after that.

I can also felt that she also felt the new staff was slacking on their learning effort, that's why she did it that way to "force" them to learn (like they got no excuse not to learn, since explanation was given in public now, so don't go and tell her that they're still don't know, etc).

This post has been edited by AEROZ: Aug 2 2025, 11:10 PM