So you guys, I started my job April 2019. During my first few months, I would encounter this man who would always tell me how pretty I was and that He is a photographer, and how he would like for me to model for him. He didn’t seem too weird or creepy at the time. A few months in to the job he actually ended up doing a photo shoot for one of my friends who worked with me. Come fall, he asked me again, and I thought to myself why not?

When setting a date to shoot, he asked me if I had anyone I wanted to bring to do the shoot with me, I told him I didn’t have anyone who could come on short notice. He then asked me if we could shoot at a park in Atlanta, and I explained to him I wasn’t comfortable with that. I had to consider the fact I’m new to the area, and didn’t want to be with a total stranger at the park. He then asked if he could take them outside of where we work with some scenery of the leaves and fall weather. I’m like okay that’s fine. I know I had agreed to shooting with him, but he just began to seem super pressed about it.

The next day, we take our lunch breaks together to go outside and take pictures. During the shoot he began to get really creepy, asking me if I had a boyfriend, and relationship questions. Questions that weren’t professional. He kept on saying how beautiful I was over and over. I’ve taken pictures before with photographers, but something about him was reallllllly off. He sent me the photos About 3 weeks later, and I tried to steer clear and avoid him going forward.

One day, he came up to me from behind while I was sitting in our work lobby waiting on my ride, and started rubbing my back asking me how was I doing and how he hasn’t seen me. I moved and just said yeah I know.

A second time, while waiting on my ride, he comes and approaches me and grabs my arm in a “friendly” way and asks how have I been, and I told him not to touch me and that I don’t like when people touch me, especially just to say hello. He then responded with “well see I didn’t know that”.

Last thursday, I was in the break room buying some snacks, and he was at the time clock right across from me, and when he turned around a noticed me, he grabbed my arm AGAIN and started saying how he hasn’t seen me, how am I etc, and I literally paid for my things, ignored him and went straight to my manager. I clearly told him to stop and he did not respect that. My manager took me to the manager who is above them, and she had me write a statement after explaining to her the situation. I wrote the statement and she said she would pull the cameras to see the times I encountered him.

The next day, Friday, she calls me into her office and asks me what end result would i like to see. I told her that I just would prefer he not touch me or speak to me. She asked me if I were alone with him in a hallway would I feel uncomfortable, and I told her very. She explained to me that they were still investigating, and that I’ll hear from her soon. NOT even 5 minutes of me getting back to my desk, I go on Instagram and browse a little bit, and I went into the stories I posted And I see his name!! He found my Instagram account and was looking at my stories!!! It freaked me out because my name is not a simple name or easy to spell , and my profile picture is just the color black, he had to have put my full first and last name in the search bar on IG to find me. I went and showed the manager, she just shook her head. I don’t know how to handle this???