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At my work, I have this one lady showing me lots of IOI's. For example she will come up to me and give me passionate hugs, finds ways to isolate me, touches me, introduced me to her family as her boyfriend and general flirtation with me. I've been flirting back playfully and giving her some kino but not escalating to kissing or anything like that because of the professional environment we are in.
I have this one co-worker who now deliberately starts touching her and tries to kiss her on the cheek. She definately appears to not enjoy it. Then he says "Don't get jealous". He also tries to find situations where he could atempt to make me look bad or stupid in front of women. He also likes to touch me a lot and plain ignores any requests to keep his hands to himself.
Usually I'm the alpha at my work but this guy is definately trying to challenge me. Being his supervisor, I could exercise my authority and write him up or suspend him but this would make the situation sticky as I would have to justify it to my boss. How would you go about dealing with a person like this without getting Human Resources Involved.
One clarification, both the lady and me are supervisors of equal rank so it is not a situation where the women is attracted to her boss.
She sounds like a moron.
So does he. Don't let them drag you down to their level. Because it sounds like the guy's trying to bait you to get you to do something stupid, perhaps she is too. Which could have employment implications.
It's a jungle out there, and there are a lot of shytbags that wouldn't think twice about taking your place and watching your squirm as you're packing your shyt after being accused of unsavory conduct either towards your employee or a fellow supervisor.
Absolutely don't use kino, or get into alpha male pissing contests with other guys at work. It's just not necessary. Take it outside of the workplace or better yet not at all.
Besides that, Valence makes a good point.