Quote Quoting Ed209
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Did I threaten him in that text?
Yes. Your text contains an implied, conditional threat to reveal information that "would look really bad for" your co-worker.

But so what? Slapping the "threat" label on something, by itself, is of no real significance unless your employer has some sort of personal bugaboo about "threats."

Quote Quoting adjusterjack
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Any time you say "If you do this, I'll do that" it's a threat.
Really? Bob Barker used to tell folks that, if they spin the wheel and land on $1.00, they will win $1,000. I once told a friend, "if you give me $5, I'll jump off the roof of my house into the pool." Neither of those things seem like threats to me.