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myself and stress that this was an effort from my side to show an open mind and goodwill towards my colleague José Luis with whom I had till then a very difficult relationship. This was to show him with acts that I was prepared to leave the past behind and start anew. My team leader's hysterical response unfortunately destroyed that good intention. She failed though to explain me how I can make a workload sharing plan at 8am in the morning (sitting alone) not knowing how much the workload would be 4 hours later. It shows again that Susana has no clue what she is doing and has a superbly childish attitude when she feels her military style orders are not obeyed. The same shift roster applied for the rest of the week and I dutifully wrote a workload for the team at 8am every morning, fully showing that I did comply with that management decision, contrary to her claims in the meeting that I didn't do that. It is interesting to notice that Susana herself shortly afterwards abolished the requirement to do a daily workload and started to send out a weekly workload for the team. How she can work out on Monday morning what the workload will be on Friday evening or Sunday morning is unclear to me and in my opinion shows again she is entirely incompetent for her current management position.
The meeting ends with me literally BEGGING Susana to stop her unprovoked arguing, fighting, bullying, etc. This is fortunately mentioned in the minutes although quite flawed and not reflecting my desperation.
Having ended my evaluation of the, as you must have understood by now, very one sided, biased and shockingly incomplete minutes of the 08.03.2018 meeting, I wish to continue to explain a few other events and incidents that happened and are still happening in the Dutch/Belgian team that have affected my team over the last 2 years (long before I started at GVC), continue to affect my team today and will affect the team in the future if not properly remedied.
I first wish to point out though that one of the main reasons why I fell sick was my team leader's childish game of trying to use my holiday requests to manipulate me or punish me. By only awarding me 3 days off in the first 3 months of 2018 I had no ability to reload my batteries and this caused my stress levels to soar as I had no way to escape my team leader's bullying for some time. I had explained Susana that I had friends coming over for a visit but she never wanted to respect my request. Luckily in the end my friends' visit was first postponed and then cancelled so that problem didn't happen at the end although it caused me a tremendous amount of frustration and didn't help anything re my health status. I find it very unprofessional that a team leader tries to blackmail you by keeping you hostage with your holidays.


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