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anyway to do that to keep me away from the Camp Two bullies. I thought that by showing flexibility and this goodwill gesture towards Susana Martin she might change her attitude towards me and become more friendly again as had been the case in the past, before the chaotic team meeting happened.

163. As a sign of goodwill I then decided that the following day, when I was working from 8h00 till 12h00 and Susana Martin from 12h00 till 20h00, I would sit with the English team initially but at Susana Martin's arrival at 12h00 I would move to the Dutch/Flemish team area and sit beside Susana Martin. During this meeting Samira Mouhayar gave me the impression that she was not really interested in my problems and got bored with hearing it all over again. I felt that she was just sitting and waiting for the problem to go away and did not care about how it would be solved as long as she did not have to deal with it. My biggest hope at that moment was that with two team members leaving and me giving a show of goodwill to return to sit with Susana Martin in the same team area, she would see my positive intentions and stop her bullying towards me so we could work together to build up an entirely new team with different people. I was actually hopeful for the first time in months that the end of my ordeal was much nearer. I still had not heard anything from HR regarding the bullying investigation they were supposedly doing in our team and I had not been made aware of any improvements or decisions about the problems that were made or intended to be made soon.

164. On 9th March 2018 I started my shift at 8h00 sitting with the English team and at 12h00 moved to sit beside Susana Martin, as proposed in the meeting the day before. I was in a very good mood as I was convinced that my problems were over. When Susana Martin came in she opened a full blast attack on me that lasted the full four hours I sat aside her for the rest of my shift. Four hours of nagging, criticising and questioning everything I did, asking about things I was not doing, asking about things I was doing. This went on non-stop for four hours and it became the worst four hours of my life. At the end of my shift I left entirely devastated. Susana Martin's assault had finally broken me. I had lost all hope and self-confidence and I did not know anymore how to continue my life. I was off the next two days and I think that that was the only reason why I did not start crying at my desk. I just did my emails, chats and phone calls and was counting the minutes till the end

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