[viscousmemories]

The more I think about this the more I think I made the right decision bringing the situation to the attention of my management team. I've been thinking maybe I should have confronted my co-worker more directly with my concerns first, but given my past experience with him I'm fairly certain the best case scenario is he would tone it down around me; I think there's very little chance he would stop harassing her.

I do think it would be unfortunate if he lost his job over this but I have to keep reminding myself that it isn't my fault if he does, it's his fault. In fact all my stress and discomfort over how I've handled this situation are his fault too. He's been in the corporate world (not to mention the human race) long enough to know that he can't treat a co-worker like that, yet he made the decision to do it and to drag me into it.

One point I forgot to make in my original post was that he told me after the fact that he had called her to the room because he had mentioned the "support lady" to his students and one of them had asked if she's cute--so he called her in for them to judge for themselves. Just as he finished telling me this she walked up and he says to her "they approved". Just in case anyone thinks I'm reading something into the event that wasn't there.