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in Gibraltar and Spain. They kept repeating all the time that they could not handle the stress caused by Susana Martin's lack of professionalism anymore, etc. This negatively affected the morale in the team even more. As the bullies promised they would leave as soon as possible, that at least gave me some hope that the atmosphere at work would improve drastically as soon as they were gone. In fact that never materialised as they were not successful in finding other employment and that made the Camp Two bullies even more frustrated. Jose Luis Aznar turned out to be the most negative person I ever met in my life. For Jose Luis Aznar, everything was bad according to him; the company was bad, the management was bad, the customers were bad, the products were bad, the softwares were bad, Gibraltar was bad, his colleagues (including me) were bad, etc. His negativity was endless. The other Camp Two members tried to explain and condone this pessimism with Jose Luis Aznar's history; his sister had committed suicide, his brother was doing a long prison sentence in Belgium, he had had a travel agency in Belgium but it had gone bankrupt, etc. Jose Luis Aznar's bad attitude and continuous criticism was a serious nuisance for the other team members and was reported repeatedly but the management never intervened.

28. I also learnt in the first few months that almost every department in the company had to deal regularly with the customer service department and their team leaders. I therefore focused on maintaining a good relation with my own team leader Susana Martin. I for instance wrote positive messages about her (failed) interventions to stop the Camp Two guys bullying me. I also did that to give her more courage to deal in a stronger way with the bullies. The reality was that Susana Martin was a weak and ineffectual leader and had a vicious streak. She was not made for the job and could not handle it. Susana Martin was vindictive towards people she blamed for her own failures. Still I respected her for being my boss and followed up her requests to the best of my capabilities although some of her requests were simply wrong or unreasonable. Always have respect for my superiors, is how my parents educated me, it did not feel strange to me. Samira Mouhayar was not really interested in Susana Martin's problems or possibly Susana Martin never spoke about her difficulties with Samira Mouhayar for fear of losing her job. The Camp Two guys claimed that they had gone a few times to HR to complain about the management and specifically Susana Martin. I had decided not go to HR and continued to try to not get involved because I did not want to jeopardise my job and career opportunities. Samira

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