The Interviewed Guy Was Replaced

[WYT] The guy who started today is clearly not the guy we interviewed and no one else has noticed The guy said HE was Josh, and the kicker is he also said “It's great to see you again” and used my name — I hadn’t yet introduced myself. He said it with what I would say is a midwestern accent. I couldn’t interrogate it too far because he was called into some onboarding thing but I was really confused. I ran into my boss afterwards and he said he had a nice conversation with Josh this morning and he feels reaffirmed that we made the right choice. I said “that doesn’t seem to be the guy we interviewed.” I don’t know if he thought it was a joke but my boss said “You’re a quick judge of character, but time will tell if you’re a good one” then laughed No one else seems to have noticed that it’s a completely different guy. I haven’t brought it up outright to anyone yet but want to because this is weird and seemingly fraudulent. I just don’t know how to bring this up to a superior or HR.

A person describes arriving at work and realizing that the new employee is clearly not the person who was interviewed. The supposed Josh acts as though he already knows everyone, while the boss and coworkers fail to notice the replacement. The joke comes from the narrator’s escalating suspicion and the absurd possibility of an impostor being hired unnoticed, making it useful as a reaction to bizarre workplace situations.

• @right_wing_dev_squads / 14365 2026-05-13