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again", even when it is a very basic action to take and they don't need any access to the mail.
The next step was to tell other team members that whatever I did or asked was to make them look stupid, that since the day I started working I asked them a question and EVERY time I got an answer I went to someone else to ask the same question. In Yousri's words in loud voice for everyone to hear: "Jij doet er alles aan opdat ik mij een mongool zou voelen." [translated: You do everything to make me feel like a mongol, a person with the Down Syndrome.] It is true that there have been a few times that I asked advice for e.g. customers who were on the edge of just getting/not getting a bonus and that I asked Martijn or another team leader (when you weren't there) to make a decision. This was not to criticize my colleague but to give the user the best service possible. On other occasions I was given "advice" without asking for it (looking over my shoulder and saying "you have to do it this/that way" without knowing the case"), advice that was simply wrong. Now they are publicly criticizing me that I on purpose do things wrong to make them look bad. I do not think that I should follow wrong guidance and do things wrong on purpose to keep my colleagues happy? Or are they just trying to set up the other colleagues against me in an "all against one" scenario.
At 16h00 my shift ended but I was still in a chat and finished that around 16h15, in the meantime I was answering an e-mail about a lost bet too. Yousri took that up as me "blocking a file again" and when I showed him on my screen I was actually working on it to get it out of the mailbox, he again started saying in a loud voice that whatever he said I wanted to protest it etc. etc. He refused to greet me or shake hands when I left.
I'm off on Thursday and do the late shift on Friday so I won't be together for long with these three colleagues as they do early shifts. On Saturday I have the same shift as Yousri though so that might become problematic as he will come to look for trouble. The two others are more easy to ignore, by the way. I'm off on Sunday again. Next week Sabir is on holiday, so that's one problem less, I work partly with Jose Luis but that's not too bad but my first four hours of every shift I am together with Yousri, not something I look forward too.
The good news is that now all three of them are publicly claiming to be actively looking for another job so this situation might sort out itself sooner or later. I do have to admit though that I feel uncomfortable about the long term effect this situation might have on people in the company who don't know me thinking I am an unprofessional guy who is a shit stirrer.
Could you please give me some advice and guidance on how to handle this situation?


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