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to cause me trouble, alarm, distress and humiliation. This time I felt especially humiliated as it happened in front of Jose Luis Aznar who sat there grinning at me and enjoying my ordeal.

137. Shortly after this incident Susana Martin decided to do away with the Daily Workload email and from then on she would make one herself on a weekly basis. This showed again how irrelevant the daily workload email had become and that Susana Martin was just looking for whatever reason to start a fight or an argument with me. This workload was important for the other language teams with twenty members each so they could set up a rotation scheme in which their team members did one hour of phone calls, one hour of chats and one hour of email and that role rotated during the day. In the Dutch/Flemish team we had to do phone, chat and emails all at the same time because we were sitting alone as the team was heavily under-staffed. Susana Martin never seemed to understand that our team had different needs because of that and although almost everyone in the team had brought the workload issue up with her. She seemed to be stuck in her old routine and unable to make decisions. The same can be said for Samira Mouhayar, forever hiding in her glass wall office and seemingly not interested at all in the problems occurring around her.

138. Susana Martin's lack of knowledge of the softwares, products, promotions and procedures was a constant source of frustration in the Dutch/Flemish team and was also widely known amongst the other customer service language teams. To that has to be added that not all the softwares worked 100% as they should and that could lead to confusing and contradicting information. Around this time I came across a request from the Risk Department for a VIP customer who regularly deposited 10,000 euro. The Risk Department had some doubts apparently that this customer's account might not be used by the customer himself or that some of the deposits were somehow suspicious. We were never told the reason for such requests by Risk. For whatever reason the Risk Department wanted the Dutch/Flemish customer service team to contact that very high value customer to send us identification documents to prove that he indeed was who he pretended to be. This was actually quite a common request and had to do with the legal requirements from the Regulator for KYC, “Know Your Customer” to prevent fraud, money laundering, etc.

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