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In short, I wish to assure you that I take my professional responsibilities very serious and do my very best to be nice and correct to the management, my colleagues and our customers. As such I find it not correct that my colleague Jose Luis tries to misrepresent what actually happened with the obvious intention of creating a negative image around my work.
I do hope that this unfortunate chain of events can be discussed between us all to prevent any future repetitions and continue working together in a positive atmosphere.
Sincerely,
Bart Van Thienen


43. By this time I already felt depressed by the continuous attacks from the Camp Two guys and I had only been working there for two months and still had two months to go till the end of my probation period. Jose Luis Aznar' observation “shutting down to protect myself for mistakes” was very correct. I just locked myself up inside myself to block out the bullying that by then was seriously affecting my mental health. Jose Luis Aznar and Yousri Amrani must have understood by now that I was very uncomfortable with the way they treated me, but they just continued. Stef van Veen and Dennis Dorland had already told me that they felt that the Camp Two guys were trying to bully me out of the company but that they were too scared to stand up for me as they feared the same bullying treatment would then happen to them as well. Every day I studied the shift roster to see when I would not sit together with the bullies and felt alarmed and distressed as I thought that the clique of Camp Two ganging up on me might negatively affect my chances to get a fixed contract after the four months probation. I also had by now concluded that the department's management was weak and ineffectual and avoided dealing effectively with the bullying. The management was well aware about what was happening by now but I never saw any real effort to stop it. One afternoon Yousri Amrani and Sabir Nouri came on shift while I had already started on an earlier shift. They made a show of it to greet everyone present but ignored me entirely. These individual acts of bullying would not have affected me but it went on and on and on, it never really stopped. The cumulative effect of all the bullying incidents and that no adequate or effective steps were taken by the management to stop the bullying started to affect my mental health.

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