My Coworker Called My Daycare

Location: Pennsylvania

As someone said; this might come off as a rant but I was trying to give context. I’m wondering if I should get a labor lawyer involved. Sorry for the confusion.

My coworker has only been with our company for one month. He isn’t a superior. He has the same role I do.

Today I had to leave early because our town kept having power outages from the ongoing storms. My kid’s daycare called me to tell me my baby needed to be picked up. So I told coworkers to inform the manager (he was on break) and I left.

About two hours later my daycare calls me to report that someone called asking if they had really called me to dismiss my child. They used my new coworker’s exact name when they called me to tell me. I was livid. The daycare didn’t tell them anything for privacy reasons but they got the caller’s name.

I called the store to call my manager and he said “actually it was me!” With an attitude. When I knew that it wasn’t. It made no sense because they told me the caller’s name and they thought it was suspicious, because the caller sounds young. One of them knows my manager is older. I told my manager I’m calling HR and he said “go right ahead.” He gave me the number and I called HR.

She agreed and told me it was completely inappropriate that he called and that the problem would be mitigated. I hate needing to leave early from work, but with kids I need to. I’d be happy to grab a note next time.

It’s just so frustrating and downright scary my manager gave my coworker my personal information.

Can anything be done legally, or just follow up with HR?