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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you just tell him not t come to your office?
"Al, starting today I have decided that I don't want any visits to my office. It's distracting to my work.
I need you to email or instant message if you think you need my assistance"

This will do a couple things:
1. A paper trail if he starts to ramp up the unnecessary emails, so you can document and show a superior that Al is writing you 4x/day and has nothing to do with work, and can frame it as him needing redirection on who to go to for help and your workload, unnecessary work answering his questions since you say he doesn't need you
2. If he does come by in spite of this you can say "email Al" while not even looking up or say "email Al" while you walk away 
3. You can answer briefly if for some reason it is a legitimate work related request

Additionally, I think it will give your complaints more clout when you can say "here are 5 emails in one day that shouldn't have been written. I'm concerned not only because I am not involved in his work and these are unnecessary and distracting/time consuming, but that they point to some sort of inappropriate behavior from him to me personal when I notice him staring at me all the time."
And then you can go into the staring, stopping by your office 
when you told him not to, all that
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I wasn't going to tell him off directly but after reading all this advice and thinking it through, that seems to be the best course of action.[/quote]

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