Hello there, I may be in need of some advice. I feel like this is a good place to turn to since you guys know TRP so well. I'm not really familiar with it but I think I know the signs of someone is RP.

I work for an agency where I help supervise children. I work in a shared office building in a child watch space right across the hall from a set of suites that was turned into a gym.

A couple of weeks ago, while I was supervising a couple of children playing with their father, the gym owner rolled into the building speaking very loudly and swearing at someone on his phone. He could be heard from outside of the suite. The kids (8 years old) looked at the door and then looked at me and so did their dad. So I stepped outside, said hello, and my exact words were, "Excuse me, would you mind keeping it down because we have some kids here." I was trying to be tactful about asking him to stop swearing.

He walked right up to me and started yelling at me and talking down to me, and said he would keep it down if I could tell the kids to keep it down. They were sitting quietly on the couch with their dad, not talking, and watching a movie at a very low volume. I said, "They are being quiet right now." He kept talking down to me in this very loud, condescending tone and said I didn't even introduce myself. He said, "You just started yelling at me." I never yelled at him and I think the family was watching can attest to that. He then demanded to know if I owned the place, then asked what my name was. And damn it I told him and wish I didn't. He introduced himself as the gym owner then he said he'd spoken to my supervisor before about children being loud. Then he reiterated "If you can keep them quiet, then I'll keep quiet." By that point, the kids and the dad were watching me and I could tell they were nervous so I just said, "Okay. Have a nice day." Then I shut the door.

Later the dad told me the gym owner made the kids nervous "because of his tone" and then one of the kids wanted to go out and use the bathroom, but said he was afraid of the gym owner. I stood outside the door with the dad while the kids used the bathroom. Meanwhile, the gym owner turned the music up extremely loud and could be heard smashing weights.

I told my supervisor what happened afterward and he was pissed. He went to the owner of the building and asked him to talk to the guy. The reason I think the gym owner is RP (aside from the aggression and the fitness thing) is my supervisor later told me that he only picks on female staff and that he has anger towards women. Since then, the building owner had a word with the guy. He's left us alone but he's still weird and passive-aggressive. Always looks mad even when he's smiling.

Another reason I think he is RP is that the following interaction I had with him was really weird—I arrived at the building and went up the stairs to the suite, and he was standing right there at the top of the stairs with that weird "cocky grin" the RP people do (he was also grinning at me when he'd yelled at me the week prior). He said hello and how are you, but in this really uncomfortable and aggressive way. I just responded like a normal person saying "hello" back and then "Good, how are you?" then I ignored him. I've been ignoring him ever since and I think it pisses him off.

My plan remains to ignore him but it angers me so much that the children are afraid of him. My whole job is to make sure they feel safe. They won't even use the bathroom alone because they're scared of him.

I also have this suspicion he is trying to "game" me. I'm not familiar with all the RP stuff but I think I know the signs of one. I wish he would just leave me alone and stick to his gym. What do y'all think? I'm not going to speak to him ever. I've been reporting things he does to my supervisor so he can deal with it. But what should I do if he gets aggressive with me specifically?