u/Business_Interest283

I'm in middle management. My area supervisor told me that the COO had him try to call me while they were sitting together. I didn't answer, and my supervisor said that my work phone was turned off. The COO then told my supervisor that I was being "unprofessional" and that I should be available to my team.

AITAH for turning off my phone while I'm on PTO? I told everyone on my team to do the exact same thing when they're taking their vacation. I'm not upper leadership or anything, but honestly, I believe that if you're taking the time off you're entitled to, people should leave you alone unless something is truly on fire.

Is this just old-school management thinking? Should I start looking for another job? If this comes up when I get back, do I have a reasonable position I can defend myself with?

update: some mangers should learn about the work life balance ,cause I am done of behave like a robot , I am positively thinking of quitting right after founding the opportunity I guess I am gonna use these tips for any upcoming interview wish me luck !

Hi everyone, the situation is weird and I don't know if I'm making a big deal out of it or if I'm the only one paying attention. I helped my team interview a candidate about three weeks ago. And when I say "helped," I mean I basically ran the interview, asked the questions, and spoke with the candidate, while my bosses had other tabs open and were only half paying attention. I felt like he was excellent. He was pleasant, smart, and clearly understood the work very well, and his background fit what we needed. Normally I would never bring up race/origin or appearance because that has nothing to do with my evaluation of anyone. But here it's important: the candidate was, I believe, from Honduras and had a slight accent. His hair was dark and straight, his beard was neatly trimmed, and he was somewhat short.

We did five other interviews for the role, and in the end we hired the Honduran man - let's call him Mark - because he had the experience and nothing about came up in the interview (not that my bosses were paying enough attention to catch anything in the first place).

He was supposed to start this morning, so after an early meeting I stopped by his new office to formally introduce myself and welcome him. But the person sitting there was a tall white man with sandy blond hair. The name plate on the door had Mark's full name on it, so I asked him if Mark was there, assuming this guy might be from facilities or someone setting up equipment.

The man said he was Mark. And even stranger, he said, "Good to see you again," and called me by name before I said who I was. He said it with a sort of Southern accent. I couldn't press him on it because someone came to take him to orientation, but I was standing there completely confused.

After that I ran into my boss, and he said he'd just had a nice chat with Mark earlier and felt even more confident that we'd made the right choice. I said to him: "That's not the person we interviewed." I'm not sure if he thought I was joking or just didn't care, but he said something like: "You're quick at reading people, we'll see if you're right or not," laughed, and walked away.

Apparently no one else noticed that this is a completely different person. I still haven't said it explicitly to anyone else, but I feel like I have to because this is extremely strange and could be fraud. I just don't know how to bring it up with my manager or HR without sounding crazy. So the main question is: how do I report something like this? Also, has anyone in HR seen a situation like this before? I thought there were checks that were supposed to prevent this kind of thing.