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to be expected that day. Susana Martin was more frustrated by the day and it became almost impossible to have a normal conversation with her. She seemed to have become paranoid and thought that everyone was talking about her behind her back. Due to the constant under-staffing of the team I now sat many more hours alone at work while I heard the other language teams laughing and having a good time. I was desperately looking for a way out of this dreadful situation. The only thing that kept me going was my voluntary work in the Nature Reserve at Europa Point. Only by working there very hard for hours was I able to forget most of the issues at work. Bit by bit I started to understand that my days in the company were possibly counted as the management and HR did absolutely nothing to solve the problems I had to suffer from the Camp Two bullies and unprofessional team leader and department manager. My best hope was to find another job in the company as soon as possible.

127. On 27th February 2018 Susana Martin contacted me in Dutch via Skype chat. She had seen me in Samira Mouhayar's office discussing something with Samira Mouhayar and she was worried about what it could be. She said that I should have come to her first. Her paranoia definitely got worse by the day. I replied to her that I felt very unhappy in my job at that moment. This was followed by a long meeting with her. I again explained the terrible atmosphere at work and how the bullying was undermining my mental health. I told her that I found it increasingly difficult to scrape together enough courage to come to work and that never before in my life had I had to go through something like this. As all my normal work colleagues had gone, my team leader Susana Martin (now also bullying me) and Samira Mouhayar (who continued hiding in her glass office and did not care) were actually the only ones left that I still could have a chat with, but they did not do anything at all to make the bullying problems stop. I started to feel very lonely in an office where seventy people worked.

128. The chat conversation with Susana Martin translated to English:
Susana Martin 12:07: Hi / I saw you in Samira's office
Bart Van Thienen 12:07: hi
Susana Martin 12:07: Anything I can help you with?
Bart Van Thienen 12:07: We'll discuss it during the meeting we'll have later.


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