Day 150 - 07 Jul 95 - Page 03
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2 Q. Very briefly, we may come back to this, can you just sketch
3 out what your job at present involves?
4 A. Primarily, I am in charge of Operations in the Midlands
5 region, and so I head that team looking after the Company
6 restaurants, but I also have responsibility for the
7 franchised restaurants through our franchised support
8 teams, so it is primarily restaurant responsibilities.
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10 Q. Is that a day by day on the ground job or is that very much
11 an office job?
12 A. No, I would say primarily it is field based. I have
13 been field based since I joined the Company.
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15 Q. When you say "field based", what do you mean by that?
16 A. I would say, well, no one week is typical, but I guess
17 of a five-day week I would spend maybe two days now in the
18 office and the remaining three visiting restaurants with
19 the people that work for me.
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21 Q. So two days in the office and then three out and about?
22 A. That is about it, yes.
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24 Q. We may come back more on what you do now a little later,
25 but can I ask you when you had your first contact with
26 McDonald's?
27 A. That was really after I left university in 1983. I was
28 going to take up a postgraduate work.
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30 Q. What was that going to be in?
31 A. We were doing some air photography work for the local
32 Staffordshire County Council over Cannock Chase.
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34 Q. So that was nothing to do with retail?
35 A. No, not at all.
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37 Q. Then you left university; you were thinking of doing
38 postgraduate work, but obviously you did not end up doing
39 that?
40 A. No.
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42 Q. Were you always intending to work at McDonald's to make it
43 your career?
44 A. When I -- basically, when I intended to do this
45 postgraduate course the grant fell through, so I intended
46 then to go teacher training. I was really too late to
47 apply for that year's intake, so I decided to obviously
48 work during that intervening year ready for the next intake
49 which, I think, was 1994. So I went down to the Job Centre
50 and applied to join McDonald's where I started as an hourly
51 paid employee.
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53 Q. When you say that, you were a crew member?
54 A. That is right, yes. I joined as an hourly paid member
55 of staff.
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57 Q. Do you remember the month in 1983 when you joined?
58 A. I think it was September; it would have been just at
59 the end of the year.
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