Someone keeps mistaking me for another Asian employee who looks nothing like me. We have different jobs, different departments, different heights. This has happened six times with the same person. How do you address 'you think we all look alike' professionally?

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Report it to HR as harassment. I bet they'll know the difference then.

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I’m trying to address it head-on and professionally before escalating. Mostly just want the mix-ups to stop.

🤦‍♀️ for real? Is the person doing this visually impaired or something? I'm not great with faces, but if I saw the same person at work every day, you better believe I'd be able to tell them apart. I don't even know what I'd do about this. What's the context? Are they asking you about things you know nothing about or something?

At some point it stops feeling accidental and starts feeling uncomfortable.

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I mean, I would just be completely blunt about it. "Hey, so and so. You have repeatedly mistaken me for this other person, and we actually look nothing alike. It's starting to feel like it has a bit of a racist undertone because we both happen to be Asian. Could you please make an effort to learn our names?"

Direct is fair, but I think tone matters. Naming the behavior and giving them a chance to correct it can go a long way especially in a workplace.

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