Creepy entitled guy at work
So for context, I am 17, the creep is 24, and this started in a workplace, and I'm talking to my boss tomorrow about this.
For some background context, I am homeschooled and have bene for multiple years, so this leads to some loneliness to say the least.
M24 approached me at first, and over the first few months at work, he would gradually become my friend. I am embarrassed that I even let him talk to me.
When we were friends, he gradually became more desperate over the months, talking about how badly he wanted a girlfriend and how he's been looking for one for years. I told him that if he wanted a girlfriend, he needed to take on more responsibility, as he still lives with his mum, and has no drivers license or aspirations in life.
I was very lonely and depressed, so I misread him and overlooked red flags.
He made comments about how women were a lot of emotional work and not worth it. He started to say how I didn't act like a woman, but more like a man. He would say to me how much smarter I was than him and how mature I was, and he forgot that I was 17.
I had made it very clear that I liked someone else at that point, so he started to ask me every day after he left if I still liked him and how I should get over him because it's bad for my mental health. He would make comments about how I should lower my standards in men.
He also made comments about how I was his best friend, and how we should live together as roommates. This is when I became extremely uncomfortable.
One time, I was telling him about OCD and how that messes with you, and he admitted to having lust full thoughts in that moment. Tmi dude.
Due to ocd being fun, it was triggered for three weeks where I did not sleep well at all.
After those three weeks, I had come to the conclusion that this grown ass man is a creep for talking to a 17 year old the way he did, do I stopped talking to him and blocked him.
He attempted to gain my attention in any way possible after this by taking breaks at the same time as me, following me throughout the store, and attempting to hand me an apology letter that I immediately threw away in front of him.
I had to tell other people to get him to leave me alone. As I felt disgusted at just thr thought of him.
I had told some people that I think he was trying to groom me, and the news somehow got back to him, people suck.
After a few months of him seemingly leaving me alone, he came up to me in the fridge where I work, where I was completely isolated from the other staff by the way, and told me to not act so awkward around him and that I had got it all wrong and that he was not trying to groom me. He was getting emotional at this point, so I said to him that he is careless with his words, and I do not want to be around someone like that.
Just today, he started to tell people behind my back that I was very manipulative and delusional, I told him that it is not advised to lie about me behind my back, and he told me to my face to repeat the things he said that were creepy, I told him I would rather not because of how disgusting they were, he then told me I couldn't answer because I was lying. He then went on to say to my face that I was delusional.
This man has run my patience thin, so I noticed another girl he was trying to creep on and told her this story and advised her to stay away.
I've been to kind to this human garbage, so I've decided to tell my boss about the situation.
He has already been fired from here when he was a teenager, I don't think they will have much leniency on him as he is already a slacker and has a poor reputation.
I just needed to get this off my chest, I'm also afraid he will do something ad he knows where I live.
Thanks for reading this far, and I apologize for not being as coherent as I would like to be, as I have had a 9 hour shift today.