2023-09-12 02:00:00
“J’ aI would love my job in the Walloon Parliament. I just loved Parliament. I didn’t want to leave for the pension so early. I saw myself working until age 65. ” CarolineHowever, she found herself retired for medical reasons, more than 10 years before her due date. Same speech for Anne-Marie , she also retired very prematurely a few years ago, without having asked. “ I loved this job!It was 20 years of my life. I think regarding it every day.
This retirement was more than heartbreaking.” (read his story below: “It’s a calculated process of degradation”) They both describe a “Janssens system“, and “
vicious circle from which we never completely recover”
.“Peace for 15 days, and then it starts once more…”The long days, the work you take home, the short nights, the demands of a clerk… “
This is not a problem. It was already like that with Frédéric Janssens’ predecessor, Jean-Claude Damseaux. We have always worked in a hurry. And no one complained regarding it.“ Frédéric Janssens takes office in 2009. That he wanted to shape the services in his own way is not illogical,note from the outset Caroline.
But there is a way to do it.
“Anne-Marie and Caroline confirm what other witnesses have already said: at the beginning, things go well. Both women hold positions of responsibility. They are recognized for their skills. Sometimes the clerk even compliments them.“
And then, the next day, we receive a killer email, for line spacing or a comma. Or a note comes back crossed out in red, with a Post-it with a hole in it, to show that he is angry.”Caroline mentions something insidious. “
We saw him pitting people once morest each other, encouraging newcomers to denounce. There was always an underlying threat. And we were full of feeling it.” And then, what is the norm one day is no longer the norm 15 days later. Contradictory injunctions are multiplying. “He asks me who authorized me to go to such and such a conference, blaming me for my absence that day. I had the authorization in front of me in black and white and it was he who had given it to me… ” remembers Anne-Marie. “
He enjoins me to complete certain tasks which he then blames me for completing. He came upon me furious because I followed a procedure that he had recommended I follow a month earlier. He leaves you alone for 15 days, then it starts once more. His behavior can change in a fraction of a second. Like this all the time. You are going crazy…
“, says Caroline.“I’m going to run away”She hasn’t gone crazy. ” But the fear was there all the time. I felt worthless. I no longer slept at night, because I was reviewing what I had done during the day, wondering what he was going to accuse me of the next day. I checked everything four times. I never had peace of mind once more. It creates a mental load that never leaves you. I cried all the time. When I arrived at the office, I said to myself: “I’m going to run away”. Like a little childshe remembers with emotion.
If I had to go through that once more, I think I’d rather die. It was abominable.” One morning, when she returned from three days of sick leave, she parked in the parking lot. ” I got out of the car, I took ten steps… I mightn’t move any further. It seemed insurmountable to come back. I didn’t see a way out. I was sure I was going
get sick.
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And the disease was there, lying in wait. He will be diagnosed with two severe pathologies (and subsequent burnout). Heavy treatments, sick leave, psychological monitoring…
Worst of allCaroline never returned to the registry. It lasted 4 years under the Janssens era.Without the energy necessary to redirect her career, she ended up retiring, at the suggestion of Medex (the federal administration of medical expertise for all civil servants in the country). “
I never asked for that. I was too young. I wasn’t raised like that. The social outlook is very heavy. Ill for years, then retired…“The former civil servant testified before the Labor Auditorate. “
I hesitated. I found myself in the same state as then. It haunts you all your life… I hope that Justice will do its job. Worst of all, it’s telling yourself that maybe people won’t believe you. An occupational doctor told me that generalized harassment did not exist. But there can’t be dozens of us wrong…
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