So, a guy really hurt me both physically and mentally and I can't get over. A year ago I had started working somewhere, with mostly younger people, more than half of them are female. So, there was this guy who is the same age with me and we are a bit older than the rest but all of us under 30. This guy, or almost all the guys there have problems dating I guess, they may be virgins as, I m also not very experienced but good with girls. So, some of the girls there started flirting with me, and this guy was extremely jealous right from the first day already and got way more jealous seeing that. Then, one day I was talking with a girl, I knew I shouldn't flirt at work but I was after a relationship since I had liked her ( I know this is not encouraged here ) but when I started to flirt, she was acting weird even if I knew she was into me. Then she reported me, I was fired. It turns out this guy was making up stories about me, showing me like an evil, he was telling the girls I was a psycho and I can hurt them. Also, her girl friend was also backbiting me, telling her lies like I tried to touch her, flirting with her too etc. Since she knew the guy for 6 months and the girl is her old friend she believed them. I was very inexperienced back then, and some family friend had advised me for the job... I just leaved silently. But now I regret it. I can't forget the evil grin in this guy's face when we faced somewhere again, I thought about beating him but couldn't. I lost a good job opportunity, well-needed job experience since I am older and it was my first job in the field, and I realized he was promoted there lately and they are still working together. I know the girl I liked is naive, also maybe I lost a possible good relationship as well. Besides he probably kept telling lies after I left and I had to see the other people working there on daily basis and it was just stressing, I also couldn't gradute lost a year because of that. I got hurt a lot and can't get this out of my mind, I regret not going after it back then, regret not talking with the girl about it ( I was seeing her from time to time but didn't talk ). I talked to the hr manager back then but he was just trying to convince me to leave silently and let it go even if he knew that guy was evil. Maybe he was even scared of him. He just didn't want to fire multiple people, didn't want to explain it to his manager, he knew I was inexperienced and used that, heck he even called the guy who advised me. How can I forget that?