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21. There was also a constant stream of stories from the Camp Two guys about Susana Martin that when she disliked a person in her team, or someone fell out of her favour or was known to look for another job in the company, that would inevitably result in bad evaluations, problems with holiday requests, badmouthing people behind their backs in the presence of other team members, etc. These stories came mostly from the Camp Two guys but other team members, even from other language teams, confirmed it. In general in the whole team Susana Martin was not held in high esteem. In a way I pitied her as it must not have been easy for her to be team leader in a team where four guys were constantly and relentlessly undermining her. I brought this up in an off the record discussion with Samira Mouhayar in the kitchen/recreation area once when we were alone there. Samira Mouhayar seemed to be well aware of the problem but I do not think she ever did anything to stop it. It appeared to me that she had a soft spot for Yousri Amrani and on purpose looked the other way regarding his unacceptable and unprofessional behaviour. On the other hand I do not think that Susana Martin ever got appropriate training on how to act as a team leader. I tried to be supportive of her with my background of my own previous management experience and so did Stef van Veen who had a background in HR studies and loads of management experience in his earlier career. Stef van Veen told me that he was quite hard at times on Susana Martin by telling Susana Martin to stand up for herself and that she had cried once during a monthly evaluation meeting with him when he explained to her that she had to be stronger. Stef van Veen told me that he gave Susana Martin a lot of leadership advice and guidance but that she never used it. It showed that Stef van Veen too suffered from the negative atmosphere at work. 22. When I worked at GVC/bwin for about two months Susana Martin told me that she was going through a very harsh divorce from her husband. She had two young children that she occasionally brought into the office. I caught her once weeping at her desk because of these private issues in her life. During working hours, we also went many times for walks out of the office, in the streets, where I explained to her my difficulties with the Camp Two guys and she told me about her own problems with them. These walks helped us both to release some of the tension that was building up almost every day at work because of the bullying. I saw Susana Martin and myself both as victims of the same bully boys gang. It was terrible to see how they also went around in the other language teams to badmouth Susana Martin. Susana Martin definitely had her weaknesses as a team leader but this |
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