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the Christmas days so there were no issues for covering the different shifts on those special days. I remember this because it was one of the very few times that everyone in the team agreed about something. I looked very much forward to being away for a few days to escape the toxic atmosphere at work and “reload my batteries”. On 11th November 2017 I entered a one day annual leave request for 20th December 2017 and four day annual leave request in the system for 25th December 2017 till 28th December 2017 to take up my annual leave days in the shift roster. Susana Martin accepted these immediately as everything had already been agreed verbally months earlier and we had spoken several times about it afterwards. 71. It was towards the end of the year that I got a bad cold. Many colleagues suffered from the same illness that was most probably caused by the air-conditioning system that did not filter out the bacteria and just kept pumping the infected air around. Several people from the Dutch/Flemish team called in sick but I continued to work, using my medicine on the job to guarantee a customer service presence for my team. I worked entirely alone during several of those days. It was around this time that I overheard a conversation from the Camp Two members Yousri Amrani (although now at VIP), Jose Luis Aznar and Hamid Ringelberg who were discussing the shift roster and how they could organise it between them to call in sick to make sure there would be no one on shift on certain days. They wanted to do this to cause troubles for Susana Martin. I dutifully reported this to Susana Martin and even told her what I remembered of the dates they had discussed. Later it proved that indeed they called in sick and there would not have been any presence in our team. Susana Martin bluntly refused to accept my statement, which I found very weird. It was like she wanted to live in some state of denial that she had entirely lost control of her team. When indeed the total absence of personnel in the Dutch/Flemish team became a reality (because of the Camp Two pre-planned sick leave), I volunteered to come in on my day off to cover the shift. By doing this the carefully orchestrated Camp Two plan to call in sick did not work and the Camp Two guys were angry with me because of it. Susana Martin kept refusing though that the sick leave was planned. She even forbade me to bring up similar accusations in the future. She simply denied the reality of what I had overheard and told her would happen and indeed did happen exactly as I had told her would happen. Very weird all of that... It also showed that my hope that with Sabir Nouri gone, Yousri Amrani out of the team and a new starter in the team, the atmosphere would improve, was |
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