> Confronting the person (after HR said not to!) was a terrible decision, and probably made the person extremely uncomfortable. And to expand on that: It proba

> Confronting the person (after HR said not to!) was a terrible decision, and probably made the person extremely uncomfortable. And to expand on that: It probably made the person extremely uncomfortable, even if the said person told you that it didn't. During your interaction with them, their priority may have been (and probably was) to end the interaction ASAP without escalation or conflict.