When I was 17 I had a 33 year old coworker who constantly made passes at me in the break room. I was very uncomfortable. One of my friends who worked with us stupidly gave him my phone number. I had another coworker who was a grown ass woman in her 40's tell me to "stop teasing him, stop acting sheltered and let him take you to dinner." My dad being my dad, decided to take a second job at the same supermarket and the coworker suddenly stopped calling and harassing me.

Her being underage was such a curveball. This got so much worse the more it went on and this is genuinely scary that there’s people like this everywhere.

"Older men can be so much fun to be with." Well if that's the case, why don't *you* date an older guy and leave her the hell alone.

Being a woman (or even underage girl) is exhausting. Somehow, the catcalling was worse when I was a minor and it’s subsided now that I am an adult woman.

The fact that he uses the fact that he knows her address as a ways to keep her silent proves he needs to be in jail. If he is allowed to take it his anger on her, he will. Lock him up.

No matter how socially incompetent I am, it reassures me that there are people worse

what did he expect to happen 😭😭😭 "i've been secretly compiling pics of you, a child, to j/o to... wanna go out?" NO I WANT A RESTRAINING ORDER !!!

I've been stalked before in college, and it's terrifying. This guy who I didn't have a single class with found out my schedule, my name, and my private social media account (which didn't even have my name in my bio or username). He would follow me around campus and when I told people they completely brushed it off or laughed about it. Nobody takes this stuff seriously and it makes me so sad that people have died bc of it. I stopped going to that school but for the remainder of the year I constantly carried around pepper spray and had a high voltage taser in my backpack at all times.

I really hope the girl is safe and that criminal goes to prison before a tragedy occurs.

I'll never understand how people can not only be this insane, but to admit it to people directly. That's so disgusting.

I’ve never understood the lack of control and heinous actions some men have. That guy just didn’t back down at all, he just was always on the attack in such a non cool and very disturbing way. Got a message saying she was going to report him to the police and he dropped her address saying to basically shut up and do what he wants. This guy needs to go to jail before he does something horrible to her or someone else.

The sad thing is that threats and stalking isn't really punishable. This is why so many women have such a hard time dealing with stalkers because the police don't really interfere unless something is actually done.

Please make this a concrete series. The days i don’t hear about a cringe relationship i have no purpose.

I'm a guy. And I recently just had a co worker like this. He would constantly hit on all the servers and text them outside of work trying to get them to date him. He always got shut down and still persisted. He even told a 17 year old he had a crush on her and would wait till she turns 18. I'm a bus boy and so was he. One day he said he accidentally bumped into a customer and grabbed her boobs. And was like bragging to me about it. Dude was a creep. I reported his ass.

Lol when I was teaching, my heat/A/C was busted (room was regularly 94 degrees fahrenheit) for YEARS. One of the iterations of repair people coming to address it occurred over the first few days of school, DURING my classes. While going over the syllabus, curriculum and answering student questions, I shared my work email for students to contact me. Well, about a week later, after the repair people had finished work and gone on their way, I received a random email on my work account. Apparently one of the repair guys took the liberty of recording my email address and thought that because I had been polite to the repair team, that meant it was fine for him to steal my contact info and ASK ME ON A DATE. First of all, I didn't even know WHICH repair guy it was - that's how little we had interacted. So that's creepy right off the bat. Second, he knew what he was doing was inappropriate because he secretly took my contact info, _and_ used the line I kNoW tHiS iS uNcOnVenTiOnAl..... If you knew it was inappropriate enough that you pointed that out _and_ felt the need to steal my contact info, you shoulda kept it to yourself and moved on. Bitch, it's not unconventional; it's rude, weird, unprofessional and entitled as fuck. He even followed up with lines like "I wish I had a teacher like you in high school, maybe I would have liked science more". I felt so violated and disrespected on a number of levels. I never responded, and instead immediately forwarded the email to my principal, who is the most incredible, bad ass admin I could hope for. She handled it immediately and assured me that individual would not be allowed back in the building. Thank f*ck for having admin and coworkers who back you up and maintain a safe working and learning environment 😤 ETA: I was absolutely paranoid going in and out of the building for a few months because I was afraid of retaliation. People who pull those stunts tend to be poorly adjusted when it comes to understanding and respecting other people's boundaries. Hopefully he was a harmless idiot, but far too often it's so much more. Better safe than sorry.

I have a similar story that I don’t get to tell much- I’m a professional gigging musician. The type you see on a Saturday evening at a kinda nice restaurant or Sunday morning brunch at the country club, not anything badass or whatever. It’s an unconventional job where I work weird hours and have to seek out every single day of work for myself. This was when I was about 19. I got a DM from a nice restaurant in my city asking if I’d want to start a residency there. Of course I was thrilled, it would lock in not one but multiple good paying gigs at once. They ask me to come out one morning when they’re not open to look around at where would be best for me to be set-up, get the vibe of the place, etc. I show up at the allotted time and the owners don’t unlock the front door, a handy-man/assistant of theirs does. He didn’t speak much English but I happened to speak his native language fluently, so I just spoke his language to make it easier for both of us. (I guess this was seen as interest..?) The owners had got caught up in a meeting and couldn’t make it out then, so I was free to go. I gave him my business card and asked him to give it to them- just polite business practice so they’d have more of my contact info and maybe feel like they know me a bit better. He did give them my business card, and I heard back from them later that day and we started planning when my residency would start. Job secured. Then I got a text. A vague “Hello” from an unknown number. I ignore it, bc who answers that?? Then the number calls me a day later. Then texts me again. And again. And again. And says “I’d like to be friends”. (Mind you this man was probably in his late 30s-40s.). I finally texted back asking who it was. It was the assistant I had given my card to. He had taken a picture of my contact information on my business card before he passed it off. He kept calling me at random times (I always declined) and sending random “Hi”s. After about a week of this, I finally replied again and asked him to please stop contacting me, then blocked him. I brought this up with the owners of the restaurant and said I wasn’t very comfortable playing there and being around him multiple evenings a month if they didn’t talk to him about leaving me be or something. I lost the job. I ended up out a few thousand dollars. TLDR; If you’re a woman, don’t include your phone number on your business cards. Please just use your email. I had to get entirely new business cards printed.

That guy is delusional, deranged, and dangerous. He shouldn't be allowed to roam free as that kind of threat to her or any other women he may decide to creep on. He'll end up stalking her. That poor girl.

my dumb teenage self that had serious daddy issues felt complimented by the guy that seemed a little older than me that talked to me while I was working at a resturant. I treated it carelessly and chatted with him pleasantly, until my other female coworkers and older female manager who'd worked in the resturant business most of her life found out because he started asking about me constantly and trying to get my work schedule when I wasn't there. They explained to me how bad it was, and it turned out he was way older than me than I thought (30s when I was 16 and i thought he was in his 20's) and shut that shit down; they hid me in the back of the resturant any time he came in and told him I'd quit, and I didn't have much social media at the time. I was incredibly super fortunate and will be endlessly thankful to those ladies.

There are two kinds of guys: Those who a girl has shown interest in, but is completely oblivious to the "obvious hints", and those who think a girl is "playing hard to get" by getting ignored

A SHIT ton of women and girls go through this, because guys just think this...okay.

as an 18y/o girl who also works at walgreens, the case of that girl and her coworker always scares me so bad. it came out on the news after a 16y/o coworker of mine was abducted after her closing shift and went missing. i almost quit bc of that and other harassment of my female coworkers and the managers didn't seem to give a sht about any of it. big companies can be so evil

The fact the workplace didn't even bother taking action when she was trying to tell them to do a schedule change is disgusting

If you're a supervisor, always make sure your workers are getting home safe, especially if they sometimes need to wait for their parents to arrive to pick them up. Even if you live in a safe area or a small town, it's important to remember that people like this are lurking everywhere. I live in places that are pretty safe, but even when I lock up I notice cars lingering in the parking lot or someone hanging around all by themselves in the back alley behind the shop.

It's scary and horrific how common this behavior actually is. And I'm extra surprised her job did nothing to help. It's their job to provide a SAFE environment. I had an incident at my job a few years ago and the company was so fast to act that I didn't even know there was a threat until it was already solved. To preface, I work at a very popular US grocery store chain, and about 2 years ago, I had discovered that one of the men in the deli department lived in the ame apartment complex and me. Granted, I was never really scheduled around the same time as him. If we did work together it was maybe 1 full day a week and maybe some shift-change hours where I'd be leaving while he's coming in sort of thing. I actually swear to God I don't even remember this guy's name at ALL. That's how little contact we ever had. I had moved to an actual house a ew weeks later, since we found a great deal on a place nearby. So we werent official neighbors for too long. A while after I learned we lived in the same complex, my HR manager comes up to me and she says "I know you live in the same complex as this employee, and I know there's been an incident. Are you ok?" And I, baffled and confused, said "no nothings happened." I had no idea what she was alluding to, and I was really really confused. But I brushed it off cuz yknow sometimes you get weird employees that are just sort of mean or whatever. I thought it was something like that. The following day, my store assistant manager pulls me aside, and says "Hey, I 'm not supposed to say anything, but I can't let this go and not tell you. (deli neigbhor's name) has been saying really disturbing and perverted things about you. We've fired him and banned him from this store, but I want to make sure you're ok and safe." I was really shocked, and stunned to the point where I couldn't even ask what exactly was aid. To this day I'm not sure, except that it was sexual in nature and so bad that the company had to let him go before I even knew what was going on. I want to reach out to that manager and ask what happened, but I'm also scared to find out because that's a really big reaction, IMO, for some just basic "oh shes hot, i'd fuck her" talk. Something made them worry. :/ Maybe I'm reading into it because I was decent friends with the manager before he left. But I've also worked in places that sexual harassment is usually ignored, so....I worry a bit. I'm just glad i moved before any of this came to fruition.

“If you tell anyone I’ll make it way worse for you” red flag HES DONE THIS BEFORE!!!

It blows my mind that people do this stuff and actually expect a positive response

Riley White-law was a year below me and we both went to the same school, I never knew her personally but I saw her around a lot. she was from what I saw and heard from others when she was still alive, a very joyfull person and always able to make everyone smile, she tragically passed a few months after I graduated from the same school. and a lot of friends I have knew her and still struggle with her loss and struggle with depression because their friend was taken. She meant a lot to our school and to hundreds of people. I wish I would have known her but I still take it hard because having a fellow peer killed is hard.But thankfully they passed the Riley Law was passed to protect future children in these similar situations to keep them safe from the public

*drops the most disgusting and creepy texts in the world* Charlie: That's about it, cya.

I work as a supervisor, and seeing this kind of shit makes me viscerally angry. If one employee is making another uncomfortable (I.e threatening, stalking, unwanted advances, etc.) It's the employers responsibility to put an end to it and should fire said employee, and notify the police if it's happening in the workplace. Ensuring employee safety and well-being should be a top priority for supervisors and managers. Nobody should be afraid to go to work, they might dread having to work, but not be in fear of interacting with coworkers or superiors with a power trip.

The sad part about this is in the comments of the reddit thread, there are multiple people talking about being in a similar situation and going to thier family for help, only for the family to blame the victims for "leading someone on". Such a dangerously toxic mentality that can lead to deadly consequences.

When i was a manager at dollar tree (I was about 20 I think), I gave in and gave my number to a coworker. He'd text me multiple times a day without me texting him, asking if I were okay, why I wasnt texting back after SO MANY TEXTS. It got so bad I had to tell my boss, who then told him to stop. I later found out that he was a fucking pedophile and sex offender, AND MY BOSS NEVER FUCKING TOLD ME. It grossed me out and I left. Never said a word to that stocker again.

Yeah so theres this girl who was a supervisor at my job and im a delivery driver and she had a crush on me and so instead of asking me for my number she got it from a binder in the office and started texting me... also happened to 2 other people who worked at this job who she also had crushes on. Some people just dont understand boundaries.

I was in a male-dominated workforce, and there were a few guys who got every female's number from the contact sheet and just spammed all of us with "hey wanna meet up" messages. It got so chaotic that one of the more insistant guys got fired because he crossed so many boundaries. I will never understand why we need to share contacts with everyone at work.

I nearly spat my drink out on the taking photos part. How fucking brash this dude is

i’m 19 but i’ve been working at the same place since i was 16, one of my managers has always been weird and creepy like that to me and added me on snapchat when i was underage. anytime i blow her off abt that stuff she gets more strict against me and shit.

Yes this is also why you should NEVER give out your coworkers info to ANYBODY regardless of who they say they are. Young women have been killed by that happening as well, creeps learn their work schedules and stake out the building looking for blind spots to ambush these girls. It’s terrifying and deplorable.

I knew Riley in High School, one of the chillest ppl ive ever met. She was an awesome painter and got paint to paint stuff like album covers, murals, and t-shirt designs. I moved a couple years before her death cuz college but i still took it extremely hard. In light of the situation though Colorado passed a bill to child victims and witnesses of crimes anonymity in public records nicknamed "Riley's Law". Its so weird to see my favorite youtuber talk about her but its good to see her story stays alive. anyways, i miss u riley, that shirt u made for me is still sick asf :)

Charlies been torturing himself with these crazies lately

>sexually harasses and stalks his underage coworker >threatens to go to her house if she ignores or reports him yeah, I think the boys in blue could at least pay a visit to him with these kinds of texts. of course, it would be up to the coworker if she wanted to press charges, but the fact is that he now knows where she lives.

I was 17 working at McDonalds, he was like 25... Kept offering to massage my shoulders, wanted to have my number and tried to convince me to go hang out with him at a shisha bar, even after I told me I was 1. underage and 2. didn't smoke (with strangers non the less) another guy once asked me how old I was and when I told him he said something like "oh, so three months untill you're legal", another guy got fired for making offensive and sexist jokes about the female coworkers and when he was telling me about it in the breakroom, he kept asking me where I live and joking that he's going to stalk me home and beat it off at my bedroom window.... At least I was 18 that time around :/

At the warehouse I used to work at we had a teenage girl and her mom that worked there, the mom in the morning and this 17yo girl in the evenings after school. The rest of the second shift staff was other high-school boys, or 20 somethings like me and my manager. Except for on Mondays and Wednesdays. That's when we would get this part timer in his mid-late 40s, and all he would do is try and talk and complain about having to work. And when he wasn't complaining, he was being a creep to the 17yo girl. He would only do things that had plausible deniability, like dropping his punch card on the floor behind her so he could try and look up her skirt. Or always wanting to help her in the narrowest aisles so they would have to squeeze past each other. One night his car didn't start, and I had just happened to stay late. If I didn't, the only person that could have given him a ride home was the 17yo since our manager walked. When he mentioned his car not starting, he looked at her and smiled, but before he could ask for a ride i immediately jumped to my feet and said "I'll give you a ride, blank said she has some errands to run after work and the grocery store closes in 30 minutes. Let's go." I've never seen someone look so annoyed and disappointed in my life.

That case where the girl was killed actually made me cry back then. I can't imagine the fear she felt as she realized she was about to get killed by the man she had been reporting. Terrifying.

This is why we pick the bear

Dude gives off mad Hal/Tighten energy

Hey Charlie. We actually live where the crime occurred that you brought up. My kid knew her, we were right there by that store, the entire situation was so horrible and there were a lot of management involved that they actually knew about the harassment that had been ongoing for a long time and did nothing about it. It was preventable and a terrible tragedy that haunts a lot of our community here. They wanted the entire place torn down. The company kept removing all the flowers and gifts we and the community kept leaving there. It was an awful tragedy. The amount of people who mentally unstable, and those that just think that kind of behavior towards coworkers is something the victim is "exaggerating"about is astounding.

This dude gives me "my expectations are way too wacky from watching too much porn" vibes. First he tries to be overt with his sexual advances by telling her some of his thoughts about her, expecting her to be so uncontrollably turned on by it that she would throw herself at him. And then he tries to blackmail/threaten her into hooking up with him by leveraging personal information against her, another common porn trope.

When I was 18, I worked at a restaurant where an underage girl began working there. Unfortunately, so did a dude that was recently released from either prison or jail, not sure which one. But he also ended up getting the underage girl's number off of the employee sheet and started texting her inappropriately. Not to this extent, but I remember being creeped the fuck out ever since, and will never forget the fear I felt for that girl. Thankfully, her parents squashed that shit, but it's sad to hear about the whole incident with Riley. Hopefully her family finds some measure of peace.

Had this happen to someone close to me, he asked for her snapchat ( him being 25) and her being 16. He asked her to go hangout and smoke with him outside of work and she had to block him because he was making advances at work soon after , thankfully he was soon fired ( for stealinh ) and they did nothing about him being a creepy dude

This needs to be talked about more. People need to get called out on their toxic and inappropriate actions.

In a way, she’s lucky that he outright threatened her because then the police can actually act. Often creeps like this are more subtle and the police cant do anything because being creepy isn’t a crime. They have to wait for things to escalate and hope that the victim is okay/still alive

I love the fact that Charlie is activly asking for being sued from these clowns beacuase he is well aware that he would send them to the shadowrealm at the actual court

i flung my phone across the room when i heard the taking pictures thing 😭

To add more context to the Riley Whitelaw story I actually went to the same school and lived in the area at the time of what happened. While I didn’t know her very well, the story hit the school and community extremely hard. So much so that the school and community stopped going to the establishment and had it closed down for 3 months. However, the business is still open and everyone I know despises the establishment and pretty much refuses to go. This was mostly due to how terrible the management was and how little they did to prevent the situation. The situation was on going for a while and they still did nothing. Basically when the coworker reached his breaking point he piled up boxes in the back room to cover the cameras and stabbed her. Then immediately after fled the scene and tried to escape town. Thankfully police caught up with him after a warrant was put out for his arrest. The entire situation was incredibly messed up. It was one of the hardest things to see when during my graduation seeing her mother accept her diploma. There are still flowers being placed outside the establishment to this day to remind everyone of what happened. Thankfully some good did come out of the situation and a scholarship was awarded in her name. Sorry for the long comment, just wanted to add my 2 cents on the situation.

So my first job was as a nursing assistant when i was 18. i had to help shower a 6'5 (im 5'5) much older guy in his 60s at an assisted living. Man didnt have dementia and was still strong, he just used a walker for stability. he came on to me very aggressively. He kept trying to have me help wash/touch him inappropriately when he could 100% do everything himself. my job was just to be standby, and make sure he didnt fall and get hurt. I was timid and intimidated by older men but still refused. Then once i went to grab his clothes, when he was still naked, he slapped my butt and asked "you like that? I can do it some more". I already had some trauma so i literally ran out of the room and told my slighty older female co-worker who took care of the rest. She encouraged me to talk to management because that wasnt ok. When i told my manager all she said was that the residents have all the rights and i just had to take it. This isnt completely true, she just didnt care and didnt want to do more work to address it. Luckily my coworkers made sure i didnt have to go in his room again but it was a real eye opener to real life. Most managers do not care about their employees. They care about what affects the bottom line and what threatens their business. You have to learn to speak their language or navigate it to get results. Its been nearly 10 years and have experienced similar (worse) situations since and can handle myself better. But this one sticks with me because i was a kid and "the system" let me down because it was built against me. It showed me how communities rally and protect eachother in crappy circumstances too though. Now i do what i can to protect the younger girls. ❤

People like this need evaluating. The disconnect from reality is dangerous

For all my fella homies out there struggling to talk to girls, this is your competition, this is how low the bar is, as long as you're not this guy you're already doing better. Edit: Wow, I did not finish the video before writing this comment... point still stands

my gf was victim of this. I can from the bottom of my heart promise you it’s because people don’t do enougn about it when it happens. they shrug off people’s weird behavior enough that that weird person feels they can do more and more until they’re full on delusional

Real bluntly, this is an HR department issue right away. She MUST reveal all of this, the very first time he contacted her, and told her that he misused the contact list, to contact her privately. There is no way she should have remained silent. Those contact lists only exist for on the job communications about job related issues. That means after work hours texts are a big no no. As soon as he revealed his sexual issues on the texts ,she needs protection from him. This guy needs to find another job, somewhere far away from her.

Literally dropped my phone and jaw when i heard you read that text at 4:25

Genuinely thank you so much for that courtesy pause.. i genuinely needed that after that statement..

As terrifying and nauseating as his text were, I’m glad he texted her this instead of telling her in person. If anything needs to be traced back to a possible suspect or motive (if God forbid anything terrible ever happens) he’s already incriminated himself on her phone.

This started off semi funny but turned quickly to being seriously scary. I feel so bad for her. Edit: Yeah y'all are right, it didn't start off semi funny. Just down right pathetic.

One of the few times i geniunely needed that courtesy pause

We had a similar situation happen here in Coralville, Iowa in 2015 or 2016. Girl that worked at the mall was being stalked by a dude that worked security there. I believe the man had been fired after things came to light and he returned to the mall with a gun and shot and killed her. Her name was Andrea Farrington if yall actually want to read the story. I’m sure some of what I said may not be completely accurate, as it’s been some time since it happened and I’m basing this solely off of memory.

I hope that the manager who denied changing her shift never gets to sleep easy at night. I hope that this will forever haunt them.

This exact thing happened to me once. A coworker got my number from the office at work and asked me out. To make matters worse, the person was a convicted felon, one crime was a violent crime, and the other a sex crime involving a minor. I don't even know why Five Below hired them😬

I used to work for target in 2019. A male coworker slapped my female friends butt in front of multiple other people. She and multiple witnesses went to HR (who was a woman) with management and they just said they would swap his schedule around so they didn’t work together. We later found out that he had been moved around to different departments because of complaints by other female staff members that he was giving them wired looks and being generally creepy. I went into the store recently and saw he still worked there. It’s disgusting. I just hope he’s never harassed anyone else.

This also happened to me, not to the extent of looking through records to find my number though. I asked management to change my shifts so I wouldn’t see him but nothing was done. I ended up quitting and deleting my Instagram etc. to get away from him. Such an awful experience that I hope no one to experience. Stay safe and speak up

The nature of his texts alone were disturbing and then once you realize that it’s a minor that he’s sending this stuff to makes it completely horrifying.

I hope this girl gets justice, as an older sibling I'm seething. These people scare the shit out of me-

Thank you for the courtesy pause at 4:20… that was vile 😭

I wonder how many of the dudes from this “cringe texts” playlist have seen these videos of them getting absolutely clowned on

As soon as it was mentioned that they worked fast food, it all made sense. I haven’t had a single restaurant job, that didn’t have some creepy ass middle aged man trying to get with all the poor high school girls smh.

A guy I worked with recently did this to a girl who worked with me. He got hauled in the office and was fired immediately for it. He stalked her for a few months and only stopped when she quit and moved towns. Really really unsettling and very disturbing coming from somebody who knew him and the girl personally for years. Never knew he’d act that way.

At that night he just said fuck it and decided that being as creepy as possible was probably the best strategy he could use to get her to do something with him out of fear

thank you for that curtesy pause. I needed that.

I first worked in fast food when I was 16. I can’t tell you the amount of creepy, disgusting, and horrible people you get. You get poked and “complimented” all freaking day. Meanwhile, management does nothing and will sometimes even instigate it. To anyone who manages to read this, do better than I did. Don’t just give up, quit, the job needs you more than you need it.

I live in Colorado Springs about 6 minutes away from the Walgreens where that murder took place last year. Crazy to hear Charlie talk about it, really rocked my community hard. Thanks for bringing awareness to these despicable people and encouraging victims to take action!

The way my jaw dropped and you gave us a break to process it at 4:15 💀

When I was trying to save money for college, I took up a second job over the summer to make more money. I worked the opening shift at this second job (I was there 4:30am-11am), and there were usually 2-3 of us in the early hours. I was 18, and had a coworker in his 40s who would always go out of his way to talk to me, even moving from where he was supposed to be to loiter around my area. He followed me on social media and would text me things like "good morning sunshine" or "you up?" late at night (so cringe from someone old enough to be my dad). He even started sending me pictures of his body. I would never respond, but I thought it was kinda funny at first because of how weird it was. Then I realized that when we went to work in the morning, I would wait outside the back door in a dark and nearly empty parking lot for the manager to let me in, and that I was super vulnerable if he ever actually wanted to hurt me. Luckily, I was able to quit almost immediately, since I still had the other job and places were desperate for workers at that time. I never told my coworkers why I quit, because I was scared if they fired him he might try to take it out on me somehow. They were all a lot older than me anyway, so I doubt he would do the same to them since he seems to only like high school girls. After I quit, he texted me that he was "sorry if he scared me", even though I'd never responded, meaning he knew what he was doing was weird enough for me to quit over. Scary!

People who refuse to accept being ignored as an answer are impossible for me to understand. If they were interested, they would've taken the time to respond. It's frustrating to see this sense of entitlement where they expect others to prioritize their needs above everything else.

I used to work in a fast food restaurant without proper management. I kept on getting scheduled with a guy that I reported for being a creep/a**hole. (He kept on making distasteful remarks about my sexuality and my friends, "pranked" me by locking me in the freezer, didn't do the bare minimum of taking orders...) I decided to not show up anymore if I was going to be alone with him (i called beforehand to inform of my absence) and my boss told me she would fire me if that behavior continued. Told her once again, "don't schedule me with him, he's a s*x obsessed creep who doesn't respect boundaries", she didn't listen. I quite three days later. Didn't show up to my last shift which, once again, was me alone with him. I later learn that one of my ex-coworkers also got harassed by him (same things), but the management still did nothing.

The thought of this guy checking his pocket constantly for the buzz of her response hits me with cringe so hard I had to take a deep breath.

I’ve met someone who did this but irl, in my local bar every night he harassed a new girl, started pretty chill and then quickly got scary/creepy and every other night he’d get his ass kicked by someone, got banned from the bar and not even three months later was arrested for trying to kidnap a girl in front of the highschool. It’s pretty scary how many people like this are out there

This makes me feel extremely grateful for my workplace and manager. She told me one time she hired a guy who seemed nice, but once they met up for orientation he was super sweaty. He wore really weird clothing and just overall made her uncomfortable with how close he kept getting to her, so she fired him on the spot. She also considered the fact that most of the workers at the time were 15 year old girls and didn’t think it was safe/would be comfortable for them. Even at my location (all college students) she’s extremely aware of who she hires. & even stopped scheduling one of my coworkers with another coworker who made her feel uncomfortable.

I’m a minor and have been working at my job since the literal moment I turned 16. Fast food is ROUGH- not because of the work itself but the coworkers. Throughout my year or so of working, I’ve worked with around 6 or 7 people who are basically (or LITERALLY) pedophiles. Many of them have made advances on me that I dismissed because I was a goofy stupid 16 year old and just thought I was overthinking it. A couple of them would openly talk to me about their s3x lives and k1nks. Bro what? I’m literally a child??? You (an adult) should not be talking to a CHILD about that stuff??? One of them would “jokingly” make s3xual comments towards me. Like- about me, right in front of me. I have only started setting boundaries a couple of months ago and boy has it been rough. Ive never EVER made ANY advances towards ANY of them. Like I haven’t done anything other than being nice and doing my job. Thats it! It’s like- is all of this even worth the $10/hr minus taxes? No- it’s not. 😐 No, but this is so scary because I can literally see one of my coworkers doing this shit. Apart of me still thinks that I’m overthinking things but I’m more aware now. Sometimes I even blame myself for the comments he makes. Like- maybe I shouldn’t have been so nice? Or maybe I should have set boundaries sooner and not let him push those boundaries. Ehhhh WOMP WOMP!! Anyways!! Hot take- shouldn’t have ever gotten a job as a child. I don’t care about “real world experience.” Real world experience shouldn’t be getting harassed by pedophiles. 😐

A million thanks for the courtesy pause

That courtesy pause was extremely slept on, I don't think I would have been able to finish the video without it....

I used to go to school with Riley at air academy. It's such a sad and disgusting story, she was such a great girl with a bright future but it was cut sort in the most grotesque way. People need to take things like coworker harassment seriously

One of my best friends had a similar thing happen to her in college, she was a student worker and he was an employee working in a different department, but in a shared office. He would send her really gross and explicit messages over social media and she repeatedly expressed how uncomfortable these messages were. When she reported him, ultimately the disposition by the university admins was to schedule them so they don't work at the same time -- in order to accomplish that, they let him continue to work as normal and to cut her hours in the office, as well as restricting her from speaking about it. Lord forbid the university's name get dragged through the mud for something like this. Instead of losing his job, he got a slap on the wrist and my friend had less money to take home for the rest of the time she'd worked there - and was forced to keep quiet about why.

Appreciate the courtesy pause cause god damn I needed it

This is some serious stuff. I had a girl stalk me after meeting her on Tinder a few years ago. You don't know how bad & uncomfortable you can feel until you have someone stalk you & I'm a guy. This is some serious stuff & my heart goes out to her

8:18 to the management who refused to do anything, i hope you lose sleep over the guilt you should feel.

Thank you for the courtesy pause, I had to pick my mouth up off the floor after what I heard.

5:09 there is the exact middle of the video because I didn't have anything else to do with my life

I worked with a girl who was getting harassed and threatened over the work app and he would just sit outside her house. She went to Hr multiple times and after the third time, they made her part time and made her night shift (even though they’d still cross paths between shift changes) instead of firing him. Which the workplace rules says you can’t use the work app outside of work unless it’s work related. So instead of firing him they made her situation worse

This genuinely bothers me so much. So many men will read or listen to stories like this and still blame young women for being too provocative, too nice, or just accuse them of lying. Accuse us for being over reactive, or dramatic. When if you ask almost any woman in your life, she probably has a story similar to this. I do, almost the exact same, where I was 15/16 and my coworker who was almost 30 had stolen my number off the contact list and wouldn’t stop bothering me about letting him come over to my house to “play video games and hang”. This man also had a pregnant girlfriend, who was just barely 18. And when I told my franchisee, I was straight up told “I’m really sorry, I’ll talk to him but there’s not much else I can do, we’re a small team”. I asked that we don’t get put on the same shifts and was told that was impossible. Despite the fact this guy was hired well after me, and was still within his probation period, and also sucked at his job. He did eventually get fired, funny enough not for being a fucking creep on the only female minor in the store, with witness testimonies too. Fucking frustrates me so much. I’m aware it’s not all men, I’m dating a wonderful man who would never do anything to harm anyone. But it’s enough men that the fear is still valid, and should be taken absolutely seriously.

I appreciate you giving a courtesy pause for the horror unfolding

it’s crazy that people don’t understand being like this is scaring someone away not making them want you😭

It's cases like these where I noticed the stalker typically stops if he learns there is a genuine threat to his being if he keeps going through with the stalking. That typically happens when the girl has a strong male figure in her life that's more than willing to actually end the guy if he takes things too far. Those predators ALWAYS target girls that they know don't have others to protect them. Her being a minor means she can't even carry a firearm for protection, which makes this even worse. I hope she finds someone that actually helps her.