When did you realize that HR was definitely not your friend?

Got pulled into a meeting with two HR reps in the middle of my shift,

taken to this really nice boardroom, which was confusing because I was just a grunt,

and this is literally floors above where I should ever be.

They sat me down and basically said,

What do you have to say for yourself?

Me, still confused, tells them I have

no idea what they're talking about. Everyone was really quiet and serious and I'm scared out of my

mind. And they say, you know what you did. This is cause for termination, blah, blah, blah.

I'm literally thinking this is really excessive for being a few minutes late sometimes. I insist I don't

know what's going on. One of them maybe realized something was wrong and flips open a file and says,

you're XX, right? Turns out they got me mixed up with someone else who has the same name.

On the elevator ride down by myself, I was still sweating. Don't know what that other person

did, but man, HR does not play.

Oh yeah, and nobody said sorry. I should add, this is Canada, where we have a special sorry

law where saying sorry doesn't constitute admission of guilt because we all say it so much,

so they totally could have apologized. I had the Air Force Office of Special Investigations do that crap to me back in like

2002 or so. I got told the OSI called and wanted me to go over to their office. I got interrogated

for about 10 minutes, them accusing me of doing white snow and hanging out with some other guy I barely

knew. After me arguing with them for those 10 minutes or so, they finally said, aren't you this airman?

He had a super common last name, and I was like, yeah, but there's multiple airmen with that

last name in my shop alone. Yeah, turns out they meant a different person completely. They

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