The people, the work, the stories: it had a hold on Tingen, he says. “I am quite passionate and emotional, but people who say: ‘I’m not taking it home’, that’s nonsense, I think. There are files that keep you awake.”
The majority of the ‘financial problem cases’ were resolved, Tingen emphasizes. “If we want it, we can do it. Although we sometimes have to go to a hole to find a solution. There are files that fail, but not too many.”
By the end of next year, the plug should be pulled completely from the GKB. In its heyday, the credit bank received about four thousand new applications a year, but that has now more than halved. The future of the employees who leave or have already left the job is still uncertain. Tingen also doesn’t quite know what the time will bring after he closed the doors of ‘his baby’ behind him.
Although the ‘child qualification’ is not appropriate, he emphasizes. Tingen lost his son Robbin Jan in September 2018 in a fatal accident on the Lonerstraat, after a training session at Asser Boys football club. “That plays a role, if your work is called ‘your baby’. That has taken on a completely different meaning.”
