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Dear Samira, CC Danielle,
After the meeting with Susana and you on Thursday afternoon I had some hope that the strong antagonistic feelings of my team leader against me would be under control, the page turned and a new chapter written as I had asked and stressed during the meeting and hopefully the minutes will reflect that.
As a sign of my good intentions I spent the first 4 hours of my Friday shift with the English team so as not to sit alone and at noon moved to sit with the DU/BE team members who came in, as did Susana. For the next 4 hours aside Susana there was a constant and unavoidable barrage of nagging and criticising everything I did on my job. This was extremely unpleasant and humiliating and could well have a long lasting effect on the morale in the team.
As 2 team members have in the meantime confirmed personally to me the fact that very soon they will leave the team, it might have been more wise to extra motivate me instead of this relentless attacking. I could have easily seen this reducing of the team numbers as an opportunity for more overtime and show the flexibility that I have become known for. Obviously in such a tremendously negative atmosphere I will NOT do any overtime and expose myself to even more of this mental torture.
Luckily in this coming week 11 Susana has the early shift and I have the late shift so I will only be together with her on Monday 12.03.2018 for 2 hours. I can assure you that I will spend every second of my time at work in the coming week with the English team to omit every further contact with my team leader and what is left of the now entirely collapsed DU/BE team full of demotivated people. I've had way too much negativity already to have to continue to listen to all stories of what is happening.
For the near future I have asked for week 12 off but this has been constantly refused by my team leader. The rule is very clear that I had to take up 9 or 10 days of my 42 days of vacation this year before the end of March. I was only able to take 3 days off till now and with even less team members very soon taking days off will become impossible. It is not my fault that the DU/BE team has collapsed and that therefore it is not possible anymore to cover every shift during week or weekends. As such I should not be punished for this situation and I politely ask you, Samira, to overrule my team leader's decision and award me week 12 as vacation. It will definitely raise my morale a lot if this would be possible as it would be another week away from my team leader and prevent me becoming even more depressed than I am already.
In my recent shift roster I had 1 and 2.03.2018 off and 10 and 11.03.2018 off, both after a


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