For the past several weeks, my workplace has been subjected to a coordinated attack by some random guy with too much time on his hands. I work at a junior college tutoring center and we have been taking Zoom appointments for the past year due to the Pandemic. The link for the Zoom session is public on the website for accessibility. Apparently, some guy online found the link and is now harassing all of us. It started out small with him just coming into the waiting room maybe once or twice a day and leaving soon after. Then it escalated to him repeatedly trying everyday, using different names to try and get into our session. He even impersonated someone who’d graduated a few years before to come into the session. This is bad enough on its own, but the sexism comes in when he got so far as in a Breakout room with me (a private meeting so I could help him) and exposed himself on camera to me. It was very clear that he waited specifically for a woman to be there to do it, and I believe he tries his worse tactics when he believes it’s only women in the session with him. We can’t take down the link so we are just stuck with this nearly constant bombardment until the higher ups “Figure something out.” We can’t not admit him into the Zoom session because we need to be able to let students in who actually need help. It makes me so fucking angry to be powerless in this situation, especially being the one he’s perpetrated the most against. I don’t know who he is, but I hate him. It’s so clear to me that he thinks this is funny, figuring out more and more clever ways to get into our sessions and ruin our days. Just the audacity and sheer amount of time he clearly has to do all of this. Hate isn’t really even a good word for how I feel about him. He clearly represents so many things that are horrible about society’s ignorance of men’s hatred of women. He is *attacking* us virtually and nothing is being done. I wish something very terrible will happen to him. I don’t like working with any of the students on Zoom anymore and I can’t wait for the end of the semester when I leave this job for one where I hopefully never have to work with the public again.
