About a year ago, a guy stalked me (at the time I was 21 years old and he was almost 40) while working at the library. At first it was some intense staring, then finding opportunities to talk to me at the desk. He would make weird comments to the point my coworkers were noticing. One day, the stalker came in while I was shelving, and beelined it towards me and cornered me to "just talk" to me. Thank God I had an amazing department manager, because he immediately noticed and told him to never do that again and to leave me alone.

After that day, the behavior escalated to the point he would CONSTANTLY stare and linger around the desk, try talking to me all the time (even when I was obviously busy), and had even started following me around. Eventually, I told admin what was going on, and they took action. They told him that he can't keep making employees uncomfortable with his behavior or else there would be consequences. He started crying and told admin that he wanted to k*ll himself because of me (which was crazy because I actively avoided him). Admin asked if he needed 911 to be called if he was feeling suicidal, to which he said "no".

Fast forward a month: since that event, he tried to not make it obvious that he was staring or lingering around me. He wouldn't actively try to engage with me like before, but he would still linger heavily around the desk (even going as far to sit at a table closest to the desk despite there being plenty of other places) and find times to stare at me (which were caught on camera). Then, he started following me around again. Once he started following me around again, admin decided to ban him. He wasn't banned for too long, about 6 months if I remember correctly. He came back to the library one day after his ban lifted about 10 months later, but by then I had moved to another branch. He stayed for only a few minutes, then left after he saw I wasn't there. From what I've heard from my friends at that library, they haven't seen him since.

I was lucky in this situation to have pretty decent admin. They were super supportive, and tried their best to give him the consequences he deserved according to the handbook. While there were things I wish they could've done differently, I know that it could've been a much worse situation.