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of me, take a lot of stress off of Susana, I found out yesterday Cathy left so now we are a very small team, I want for us to be happy people, come to work for 8 hours, come to work happy and enjoy not like looking over the shoulder as to who is coming over, what they going to say, calling someone an arsehole etc. Its an all or nothing solution, starting tomorrow I can work with Susana, we are different but it was going well for very months and then went bad and I can say what my opinion is about that. But I don’t want to be worried about who is coming round the door.
RM Why you intimidated by the VIP guys, so what?
BV Because I lived so many months through this
RM But then tell them to go away
BV Because then behind the back it goes on and on and on, all this gossiping
RM I tell you my experience, there is always gossiping, it is human nature, I’ve been in CS for 20 years and its always part of it, outside of CS too
BV But with gossiping, you repeat the lie long enough people start to believe it
RM No, really?
BV Really, not just for me but for the team as a whole, but for those people to keep going on its not going to get fixed and in the end maybe I will go sick or I will leave and the same will happen to other people
RM Is this problem just in your team or with other people in CS?
BV No just in our team, some normal conflicts, I don’t see it in English or Spanish or French team. From very beginning, it was 4 people causing this problem, saying the company is shit, the management shit etc. constantly.
RM Fine
BV So, I’ve thought about that very long, if I could physically move them out from there, simply in another block, no kitchen etc., the problem is gonna go away. If you do what you propose it will be okay for 2 weeks, but I think it would go back. I’m not trying to tell you how to do your job
RM I know, but I believe those teams need to sit closely together, my professional view is that we need to solve those issues you raise, I will need to see the other side of the coin to see the picture fully, in your own words its fine with all the other teams, so I need to see
BV I have Yousari there, not talking to me, what kind of thing is that, are we 8 years old?
RM Bart you cannot force people to do things you think they should, or change their behaviour, they talk to me they don’t talk to me fine, it is what it is. It doesn’t matter if it’s in the kitchen or anywhere else, like outside of work, so I don’t see the issue with the kitchen


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