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in the HR office and in talks to HR personnel I can hear a genuine desire to make GVC a company where people are happy to work. What I don't understand is why these motivating practices are not practised in my own CS team where victimisation and punishment are the rule, terrorising me in such a way that I had to go to see a doctor who diagnosed me with "stress related anxiety" for the very first time in my life. I am shocked by this and even more shocked as I hear similar stories from (ex-)colleagues. Why has it been allowed that this is going on for years? A first discrepancy between Samira's minutes and what I actually said is that in the minutes it is written that I was "criticising my team leader" in front of colleagues in my team. What I really said is that in astonishment to my monthly evaluation score being lower than Dennis' (whom Susana found stupid and lazy) I expressed my shock and some colleagues interpreted that as criticism. That I mention my surprise about facts and figures is something entirely different than actually criticising the person who made the bad evaluation. I repeated this twice during the meeting and as such Samira's wrong wording of this is surprising and worrying. As I said before: it is not my style to criticise my managers. The fact that I got a first bad evaluation after I had informed my team leader that I had a chat with HR about other jobs in the company (after Stef had announced he got a job at traders) was actually what other team members had predicted would happen. To my utter astonishment my team leader took it personal that I had further ambitions outside CS and this resulted in bad evaluations, a revenge attitude and attacks as in the meeting of 08.03.2018. And this was exactly what my colleagues had predicted would happen to me. Motivation is a key element of leadership but this is obviously totally lacking here even leading to sickness in my case. Susana also brought up that I informed her about the by me overheard discussion between 2 team members to call in sick in turns. Her reply was, as correctly noted by Samira: "I don’t want people to complain about this and that". My simple attempt to bring to my direct management's attention a plan that could lead to a service breakdown for our customers was snuffed out immediately. I only thought I was doing my duty and doing the right thing for the company and our customers. This was actually what I was taught to do during the new starter's training but apparently that part of the training doesn't apply to the Dutch/Belgian team. Things eventually worked out as I had reported and after my 8am-4pm shift I came back voluntarily to cover for a zero team presence from 8pm till midnight. How I can ever be accused of being not flexible is something I really don't understand. This comes on top of another example where I worked voluntary overtime on Saturday |
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