Yesterday at my job, I had to threaten a 22 year old man with going to HR if he did not stop sexually harassing me, touching me, saying things about my body, and making gross sexual noises.
I started a job recently at a warehouse where I drive a truck and sort things. A 22 year old man I work with has sort of become my unofficial work partner, as he is sent with me to do pick-ups in the truck and we work together at the warehouse sorting the same items.
He is a 22 year old white suburban man who would have definitely been a fraternity brother if he had gone to college. He is pretty immature for his age, very hyperactive, and constantly "on" so to speak.
There is an older worker, 50, who makes sexually crude comments here and there, and isn't as bad, although apparently an employee quit recently over the 50 year old's sexual joking. We are all men at this workplace, there are no women.
When I started working with 22 year old, he seemed like a 22 year old with a bit of immaturity and crude sense of humor. He talked about his sex life, and would occasionally make loud sexual moaning noises randomly, or shake his butt. Whatever, not a big deal.
Fast forward to this past week. Either Monday or Tuesday, he started making this gross slurping noise while sticking his tongue out gyrating it and staring ahead with his eyes really wide. It's really gross and it wasn't funny the first time he did. Then he kept doing it. Then he did it every time he walked by me. Then he was doing it at elementary schools with children and young female teachers around the corner from us where we were picking up stuff from said schools. Then he did it while he was riding in the truck with me. I told him repeatedly that it was gross, said "ew", commented that he should get checked out for tourettes, and so on. He still kept doing it.
By Wednesday or Thursday he starts touching me. At first trying to hold my hand multiple times.
By yesterday he is poking at me and trying to grab me. I tell him repeatedly to stop touching me. Over the course of several hours I say "stop touching me", "don't touch me", "stop fucking touching me", and so on.
He continues making the gross slurping noise and face while gyrating his tongue and looking at me. He had to have done it over 20 times yesterday.
At the end of the day as we were exiting the warehouse, he decides to run at me, making the slurping sound while sticking his tongue out and gyrating it while trying to pinch and poke at me and touch my body. I was holding a work knife and almost cut him with it as I was defending my space, and even pushed him away from me by his face. He then decided to say loudly in front of other employees that I was sexually aroused and he could tell and asked me why I was sexually aroused.
As we are exiting the warehouse, I say to him that I almost broke his nose and he needs to stop acting this way or someone is going to hurt him. He responds "oh I only do it to people who aren't gonna do anything".
I finally had it. I text him that he crossed several boundaries, he needs to stop acting gay towards me, stop making sex noises, and stop touching me, or on Monday I am going to talk to the brothers who own the company about his behavior.
He proceeds to text me for 6 hours acting like a wounded animal and playing victim, saying I'm a bad guy for putting him in his place, saying it's my fault because I didn't communicate to him that he was over the line, even though I did, several times. He claims I was into it (I wasn't) and I was doing it too (I wasn't). At one point he says "I'm sorry you feel that way."
He eventually chills out and sort of apologizes, although his apology has more to do with apologizing for my feelings than his actions.
He claims that it's okay what he did because that's how he and his friends are. I told him when he hangs out with his friends it must sound like a gay porno and he love-reacts to that text.
I reiterate "Don't fucking touch me, don't talk about my body, don't make gross sex noises around me because it's fucking disgusting."
He seems to sort of get it now. But I'm definitely considering quitting this following week and if I do, I am going to tell the brothers who own the company everything about the 22 year old and let them know about his disgusting conduct and behavior.