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finally be real action to stop it once and for all, eight months after the bullying had started and six months after I had started reporting it in writing to my team leader and department manager. 89. Immediately after the chaotic team meeting had ended, Jose Luis Aznar met up in the kitchen area adjacent to the meeting room with Yousri Amrani and Jean-Philippe Surget, the French team leader who disliked Susana Martin and found her useless. I overheard part of their conversation as I had to go through the kitchen to go back to my desk. Jose Luis Aznar explained to them how badly Susana Martin had performed during the team meeting. It again showed how closely Yousri Amrani was still involved in the customer service team issues. 90. On 31st January 2018, a day after the meeting that ended in chaos, I was invited to a meeting or interview with Danielle Wood from HR. All team members, including the people from the Scandinavian team, were called in for individual meetings and I was one of the very first ones to have that interview. I had never met Danielle Wood before and I looked forward to talking to someone who was not part of my management. I had by then given up hope that Susana Martin would be able to sort out the issues in the Dutch/Flemish team and I was convinced that Samira Mouhayar was just covering up Susana Martin's failures to protect Susana Martin's job, probably out of compassion for her divorce and Susana Martin's two little children. I had by then lost all trust and confidence in my direct management. I thought that this caused a problem though; I had been seriously bullied for eight months by a clique of colleagues resulting in losing my trust and confidence in the management. I thought it was not wise to tell HR that I had issues with colleagues but also with the management. It would make me look awkward. On the other hand if I ignored the management problem for the time being and focused on the bullying issue, it would lead to the bullying being stopped by HR and then the weak and ineffectual management issue would automatically disappear too. I still saw Susana Martin as a victim of bullying by the same Camp Two people too so I decided to play it strategically and not mention the management troubles to HR. Another reason was that Susana Martin had been nice to me till then so I decided that I would not discuss the management issues with HR for the time being. A further reason for not criticising Susana Martin during the HR interview was that I |
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