He coughed again
@ 3:25 p.m.
He grunted
@ 3:34 p.m.
@ 3:36 p.m.
@ 3:37 p.m.
He just stalked back and forth in front of me, then went to the balcony that's over part of the lobby and coughed at me from the balcony. He is obsessed with harassing me.
@ 4:16 p.m.
He just grunt-coughed again, then walked from the front desk to the lobby one way and then the other in front of me.
@ 4:18 p.m.
He's harassed me several more times in the last few minutes. I asked the person who is supervising tonight to talk to him, and she said that she would. I just don't know when she'll do it; he's been harassing me for two hours, since he got to the shelter.
He's standing at the half-wall that separates part of the front desk area from the lobby. He is the only staffperson who stands there looking at the women in the lobby for 20 minutes, half an hour, an hour at a time.
@ 4:29 p.m.
He just grunt-coughed again.
@ 4:30 p.m.
I moved from the chair that I was sitting in since this morning so that I would not be near the front desk. As soon as I walked to a chair in the middle of all the lobby chairs, he left the front desk area and walked past the front of the lobby chairs, loudly clearing his throat. Then he immediately walked back the other way, grunt-coughing again.
I finally yelled at him, for the second time today. I said "Knock it off! You have harassed me for two hours! I have already sent 5 or 6 emails to (the director) and (a psychiatric clinician) at the shelter and they will be dealing with you on Monday. Leave me alone! It is not your job to harass women!"
Unfortunately, I don't know if the director or the clinician will stop him. He's harassed me for 8 months. The psychiatric clinician has spoken to him over and over to tell him to leave me alone. The last time that I talked to the director about this issue, she told me "I can't stop people from calling you crazy, so it might be better if we just got you more support," meaning that she was calling me paranoid and saying that I needed counseling.
@ 4:39 p.m.
There's a male security guard at the front desk.
@ 4:42 p.m.
I went to the security guard and told him that the male employee that I just yelled at has harassed me for two hours. I told him that the employee is the only male staff person who treats me like this all the time. I said that the psychiatric clinician has told him over and over to leave me alone, and that what he does is test at each shift for the staffpeople who will let him harass me and who will support him and/or punish me for objecting to his behavior.
The security guard seemed to understand. He said that he had to talk to the supervisor.
I went to my chair in the middle of the lobby. A few minutes later, a female staffperson who seems just to have gotten hired walked past the front of the lobby chairs, rubbing her nose.
I think that I am probably gossiped about a lot by several of the staffpeople at the Pine Street Inn. I don't know what they're telling each other about me; I do know that I am harassed by someone at this shelter every day.
I have not had one day that was free of harassment or other abuse since 2010. Two states, several homeless shelters, several psychiatric facilities, three jobs, one apartment, hundreds of hours of voyeurism and involuntary pornography, thousands of incidents of stalking and harassment, thousands of television shows, songs, movies, magazines, media, government, corporate, even military jokes later, I would be sorry for the winner but otherwise wouldn't mind if the crown of "Most Bullied Person In The World" were taken from me. I wouldn't even need an apology; take it, please.
@ 5:11 p.m.
Some of the female guests are harassing me because they saw that I yelled at the male employee. That was how they realized that a staffperson was harassing me, which made them think that they'll be able to harass me all night if they want.
The male staffperson hasn't harassed me again tonight.
@ 5:39 p.m.
The supervisor just harassed me in front of the male employee. When I said "I can't believe this; why are you treating me like this," she said "What are you talking about?"
I have been harassed or wondering if I'm about to be harassed for four hours. I told her "Stop lying."
She said "I don't have to take that; you can leave for the night."
I said "I'm not leaving; I have nowhere else to go."
She said "Then I suggest that you calm down."
@ 6:24 p.m.
Copyright L. Kochman, January 1, 2016 @ 6:39 p.m.