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ride. 93. The following day 1st February 2018 Susana Martin replied to my email with the holiday request at 10h10 in the morning to ask if I checked with the team if someone could take over my shift for week twelve. I read that email from home as I was on the 16h00-24h00 shift. I was immediately worried by that email as it was not the norm. As team leader Susana Martin was the only one responsible in making the shift roster and it was quite normal that she changed shifts to accommodate holiday requests. If it was for shift changes for one day only, you could discuss that with a colleague and then inform the team leader about the shift swapping you had agreed on with the other colleagues and Susana Martin would normally accept the change and update the shift roster accordingly. For longer holidays that was a different scenario. After reading the email a second time, I felt heavily alarmed by Susana Martin's email as this was exactly what had happened with other colleagues when they had fallen out of her grace; using holiday requests to cause problems. Apparently the chaotic meeting had triggered Susana Martin somehow and she seemed to blame me for the investigation by HR which she probably saw as a threat for her job. As a result of this I felt very exhausted and sick and went to the Primary Care Health Centre in the ICC where I was given a sick note for flu-like symptoms. That was extended a few days later but I don't remember the exact dates. The doctor on the second occasion thought that I had had flu and that due to my lowered immune system defences I had also contracted some virus. The same day a blood sample was taken for urgent analysis. I was informed a few days later that no signs of a virus infection were detected in it. With hindsight I think I had my first mental breakdown that 1st February 2018 but it had wrongly been attributed to flu that was affecting many people in Gibraltar in those days. I did not mention the toxic work environment and how negatively it was affecting me mentally to the medical doctor investigating me as I did not think that was relevant at that moment. Less then two months later I went again to see an emergency doctor but that time I was diagnosed with stress related anxiety. 94. On 2nd February 2018 Stef van Veen sent me an email in Dutch and, although I was on sick leave, I read the work emails at home from time to time. Stef van Veen wrote that he got a job in the Sports Trader Department and that he was very happy about it as he was |
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