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days. This actually proved that I really enjoyed my job and didn't need to maximise my holidays for feeling bored. The only negative point in my employment was the bullying and the toxic atmosphere created by the Camp Two guys.

69. On 2nd November 2017 I booked flights for my May 2018 annual leave and holiday in Belgium. I booked this as my Belgian Passport had to be renewed and for my nephew's (my brother's oldest son's) confirmation, I'm his godfather. I discussed this with my team leader Susana Martin who agreed with the proposed dates and told me to put it as usual in the system closer to the dates when she was going to do the shift roster for that period; end of March, early April. Susana Martin also mentioned that there was going to be a new system for holiday planning in the near future. I remembered the stories from colleagues about Susana Martin causing unnecesary problems (her vindictive attitude) with holiday requests if she did not like you but my relation with her was still very good so I did not foresee any issues. This date was also when Martijn van der Vechte and Yousri Amrani left the team and took up jobs in the VIP team. They continued sharing the same office space though and constantly visited the team. We were also several times per day in touch for customers whom they had as VIP but that was mostly done via skype chat. The team was down from eight to six people now so the same workload had to be shared by fewer people. I hoped that with Yousri Amrani gone from the team the bullying would become less of a problem with only Jose Luis Aznar left to bully me and Hamid Ringelberg who never said a word to me. It also meant though that the positive influence of Martijn van der Vechte had gone. Martijn van der Vechte had stood up several times in my defence when the bullies were on purpose wrongly criticising me for replies to customers that I had done correctly.

70. In January 2017, four months before I started working at GVC, I had booked flights to go to Belgium for six days during the Christmas period. At the job interview stage I had mentioned this to Noemie Levy and she had replied that that would not be a problem for my application. Susana Martin had told me to put an annual leave request in the system closer to the date when she was doing that month's shift roster. Getting closer to December I had on several occasions volunteered to work on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, as those days don't really mean a lot to me. Other colleagues volunteered for

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