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allegations and I sent a lengthy reply to Susana Martin with for instance "I would have preferred to tackle my professional duties first but the fact that my colleague found it necessary to falsely accuse me of being unprofessional needs a reply as I am still on probation and Jose Luis Aznar’s remarks could as such negatively affect my evaluation. As I was still in my probation period I was scared that it would affect my chances to stay in the company." ... "It is as such entirely unreasonable that Jose Luis accuses me of not listening to his thoughts and advice." ... "Jose Luis said in an agitated tone that that was the wrong thing to do." ... "This criticism only stopped when Martijn van der Vechte intervened and said that I had followed the right procedure. I felt humiliated by the loud tone that Jose Luis Aznar seemed was appropriate for this occasion." ... "Jose Luis increasingly angered voice and louder attacks" ... "At that moment Jose Luis Aznar exploded and in a very aggressive way shouted that he would deal with it as it was now his chat. I answered in the most appeasing way that he could then go on with the chat and that I would be happy to assist if needed. That made Jose Luis act even more aggressively and I decided to leave it at that." Jose Luis Aznar requested a meeting as a reaction to my reply but this time he sent it to all team members. It was clear to me that he was rallying his Camp Two supporters against me and tried to make me look bad to the rest of the team members. Susana Martin then invited me and Jose Luis Aznar for a meeting the following day to "clear some doubts about the collaboration". Susana Martin even came in an hour early for this meeting so she seemed to be aware that something important was happening. Jose Luis Aznar was surprised that there was this meeting between Susana Martin, me and himself but during the meeting his only contribution was that he denied that there was any bullying.

42. The email I sent to Susana Martin:
Hi Susana,
Can I first point out that I deplore that I have to waste my time to answer on these spurious allegations. There are several e-mails in the mailbox, chats coming in, etc. and I would have preferred to tackle my professional duties first but the fact that my colleague found it necessary to falsely accuse me of being unprofessional needs a reply as I am still in probation and Jose Luis’ remarks could as such negatively affect my evaluation.
I wish to point out first that I have not directed any queries to Jose Luis today as he is just back from a two week holiday and he has a lot of e-mails, important MOSS changes, etc.


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