Job candidate withdraws his application after HR emails him by the wrong name, then gets upset when he corrects them: ‘My name is Zach, not Ryan’

We all get called by the wrong name sometimes, and we all find ourselves correcting the mistake to avoid any confusion.

When you correct someone after they call you by the wrong name, you usually expect their reaction to be somewhere along the lines of, "Oops, sorry about that, [insert the correct name here]," and then you both move on with the rest of your day.

For the job candidate in the story below, Zach, things went a little bit differently.

His hiring process started out like any other. He sent in his resume, then conducted a phone screen with one of the people in charge of hiring. After that, he waited to hear back from the company about the rest of the process. Then, he got an email from the company, but right at the top of it, Zach saw that the email was addressed to someone else, named Ryan. The email stated that the company would like to schedule an interview with him, but Zach didn't know whether the email was intended for him and they simply got the name wrong, or if the email was intended for Ryan and they sent it to him instead.

So, Zach did the sensible thing and emailed the company back, asking for clarification. They expected the HR manager to apologize for the confusion and clear the whole thing up, but instead, he got an extremely defensive response. The manager accused Zach of calling the company disorganized and refused to admit that they had made a mistake. Then, they simply assumed that Zach would not be interested in pursuing the position and left it at that.

The job candidate was quite shocked by this response, but it was safe to say that he was not interested in continuing the hiring process after the HR manager couldn't even admit that they called him by the wrong name.

Below, Zach shared the actual email exchange and even updated later about his response to the bizarre email. Keep scrolling to read it all.

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