Woman Says a Coworker Found Her Second Job — Then Said He Could Come Back Later That Week

A 26-year-old woman says she filed a police report after a coworker from her airport job found her second workplace, showed up near closing time, and made her feel like a known pattern of stalking behavior was starting all over again.

She explained in a Reddit post that she works two jobs. Her full-time job is airport security in the early mornings, and three nights a week she also works at a vape shop.

The coworker she was worried about, whom she called “Joe,” works with her at the airport. He had been there for about three years, and she said his reputation with women at work was already bad. According to her, he was known for being creepy toward female employees, and there had been reports of violent behavior toward women too.

One report, she said, involved him pushing or punching a female employee during an argument over job rules. Another involved him allegedly stalking a different employee for months after she rejected him repeatedly.

Somehow, he still worked there.

Recently, the woman had been promoted at the airport, which meant she was essentially Joe’s boss and had to deal with him more often. She said he had tried to get personal information out of her, asking things like what she did for fun and whether she was single.

She did not answer openly. She kept things vague, sometimes bending the truth because she did not want him knowing personal details about her. She also said she had never hung out with him or talked to him outside work.

Then he showed up at her other job.

On a Monday night, Joe came into the vape shop and asked a coworker for her. The poster said she had never told him the exact location of the shop or even which company she worked for. He also did not vape, so there was no obvious reason for him to be there.

Her vape shop coworker later told her she had not given Joe the poster’s schedule. But Joe apparently figured out she worked at that location anyway.

The coworker also said Joe told her he “watches” the poster close the store every night, even though it was reportedly his first time ever inside that shop.

That was enough to scare her.

The next day, Tuesday, Joe came back at the same time as the night before — about 30 minutes before closing.

The woman said her heart sank when he walked in. She immediately felt like he might be starting the same behavior he had allegedly shown toward the other airport employee.

Joe stood in the shop for about 15 minutes, trying to start a conversation. She was so frightened she barely spoke. Meanwhile, she still had customers to check out and closing duties to start. He stood there watching her work and talking about Mexican food, which made the whole interaction feel even more bizarre.

When she asked how he figured out she worked there, he told her he had heard her mention the company name and that she only worked until 9. So, according to him, he Googled which location closed at 9 and found her that way.

That explanation did not make her feel better.

It confirmed that he had taken pieces of information from work, searched for her second job, and showed up near closing time. For a woman working alone or close to closing, that is not a small thing.

She told him he needed to leave.

Joe responded that he was off from the airport all week and could come back later if she wanted.

She immediately shouted that he did not need to come back.

He lingered for about 30 seconds, then finally walked out.

After he left, she called her boyfriend and had a panic attack. Then she called her vape shop boss, who told her that if she was scared, filing a police report was probably the best move.

She finished closing the store and walked to her car with her hand near her weapon because she was afraid Joe might be waiting outside. She made it safely to her boyfriend’s apartment and had another panic attack there.

The next day, she contacted an airport supervisor to ask whether Joe was actually off work that week and what she should do. The supervisor said she would tell airport management.

According to the poster, management said they could not do anything at the airport unless she filed a restraining order because the incident happened off duty.

So she filed a police report.

Her reasoning was practical. If Joe came back after she had clearly told him not to, she wanted a record so she had something to support a restraining order later.

But once management learned she had filed the report, they got angry. According to her, they said she had heavily overreacted and should have “considered his life and career” before doing something like that.

That response stunned her because they already knew about his alleged history with women.

Another coworker also told her she was overreacting.

In the comments, a friend of the poster added more background about Joe’s alleged past behavior toward another coworker. The friend said Joe had repeatedly invaded that woman’s space, watched her from across the room, showed up around the end of her shifts, and tried to catch her in the employee parking lot. He also allegedly gave her gifts with romantic undertones, drove to the town where she lived to “run into” her, and kept trying to contact her after she moved away.

The poster responded that the history was worse than she had realized.

That made the police report feel even more justified. She was not reacting to one awkward customer visit from a coworker. She was responding to a man with an alleged pattern of targeting women, who had found her second job without being invited, returned the next night, lingered near closing, and floated the idea of coming back again while off work.

By the end, the question was not really whether she had hurt his career. It was why the people responsible for workplace safety seemed more concerned about protecting him than protecting the women he kept making afraid.

Commenters overwhelmingly told her she was not overreacting. Many said Joe’s behavior was frightening because he had taken information from the airport, searched for her second workplace, and appeared near closing time when she was vulnerable.

Several commenters were especially angry at management for telling her to consider his career. They said Joe should have considered his own job before repeatedly crossing boundaries and allegedly building a history of creepy behavior toward female coworkers.

A lot of people advised her to report everything to HR, not just local managers. They said the airport needed a formal record, especially if other women had already complained or left because of him.

Others told her to keep every text, camera clip, incident note, and police report number. Commenters said documentation matters in stalking and harassment situations because people often minimize each incident until the pattern becomes impossible to ignore.

Some people also urged her not to close the vape shop alone if possible and to make sure her boss, boyfriend, and coworkers knew what Joe looked like.

The strongest reaction was simple: filing a police report was not too much. He found her private second workplace, came back after learning where she was, and made her scared to walk to her car. That was enough.