'I think he always felt that he was hard done by in the team and he wasn't. The problem was that when we were getting the problems, it was in the area of the system that he developed. Inevitably, I'm bound to be talking to him more about problems than Nigel and Matt, it's just the situation. ... in team meetings, he would deliberately try and undermine other people and if Matt or Nigel ever did make a mistake Ned was very very quick to point it out and would even send email messages, ... and the friction between them is still there. Basically, they can't stand Ned, particularly Ned and Nigel, can't stand each other and it's very difficult, it's very difficult. Ned's main responsibility now is on the reports side and of course he's got to go to Nigel all the time and say, I've got to report this, where do I get it from in the system or what does this mean. They don't work together very well. ...X022 page 022.01a (tape 03.1.11a) Gordan Notes/Trans/Tape 27/01/94Jim just kind of cracked up in the middle of it all, but then Jim was..it wasn't particularly Jim's fault.. his wife left him and his father died, you name it and it seemed to happen to him all in the space of a few weeks. And, he just kind of cracked up for about a month. And, Jim is one of those characters who technically is very good, and he's a good ideas man, but he's a bit of a weird bloke, he's a bit eccentric, but he's a good team player, ... He is the kind of person who is good to have in the team and he is liked, there is not the same friction between Jim and the rest of them, but he tends to sit with Ned and side with Ned, if you know what I mean, they seem very friendly and if Ned's got a problem when he wants to have a moan about me or anybody else he kind of moans to Jim about it. I can see it going on and it's all a little pathetic but Jim does good work and is a valuable contribution, but he's got to be supervised closely, you've got watch what he does and if there is an easy way and a difficult way, Jim will always do it the difficult way.'
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