Reported Sexual Harassment At Work And Now The Environment Is Hostile.

Location: Riverside California Okay so I work at a fast food chain. Recently a fellow supervisor also a woman, older than me. I’m 23F and she’s like 40ish, she expressed interest in me. She said she was attracted to me and that she wanted to take me out. I declined and every time I would see her after that she would still keep badgering me and asking why not and just not taking no for an answer. Recently I’ve been seeing her more at the restaurant and she’s been trying to hug me and even has touched my chest with the excuse that she is “wiping things off my chest”. I have made it crystal clear that I am not interested whatsoever. I finally reported it to our district manager and now my general manager is upset that I went above them to the district manager but they knew this lady had a history of this and havent handled her well in the past. On top of that 3 people quit because of her (not sexual harassment just cause she was rude to them) and the company always sides with her. 

Well I don’t feel okay at work anymore. No one is disrespecting me but I know they are upset that I reported it and now they are saying they can’t fire her because the previous times she got in trouble weren’t documented even though they were supposed to be. So because there’s no documentation they are most likely going to just “warn” her and me to leave eachother alone and that’s it. Which I honestly don’t care my intention wasn’t to get her fired I just didn’t want to see her at work and wanted my schedule adjusted accordingly.

But they are saying they can only review footage for 30 days and that it’s going to be hard to prove and the lady is already denying everything and saying I wanted it and I just regret even reporting it at this point because somehow I’m the one in the wrong. It’s to the point where I don’t even want to work here anymore.

Everyone is saying that it because I should’ve just told her I would “beat her ass” when she kept bothering me after the initial no but I feel like I shouldn’t have to step out of character. I feel like even if I said no in a polite way it’s still a No.

Is there any advice anyone can give me? I just have a bad feeling. I’m young and I’ve never gone through this before.