Day 168 - 03 Oct 95 - Page 11

     
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     2   Q.   I am going to go through a lot of questions, not in
     3        necessarily the best order, but we might have to dodge
     4        about a little bit.  Just about your personal background,
     5        you started at McDonald's when you were 17, nearly 18?
     6        A.  That is right.
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     8   Q.   You were studying for your A levels at the time, was that
     9        your first jobbing?
    10        A.  McDonald's?  It was not my first job, no.  I had worked
    11        part-time in plenty of other places.  I had done collecting
    12        glasses; I had paper rounds; I had done shelf filling and
    13        such like.
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    15   Q.   This was your first full-time job once you started there?
    16        A.  It was, yes.
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    18   Q.   Just a couple of things about the individuals that have
    19        been mentioned.  You said you did not remember a Graham
    20        Picking.  Danny Olive, the Floor Manager that resigned, and
         he wrote a letter with a number of complaints which he said
    22        you saw.
    23        A.  I did.
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    25   Q.   Did he write it to the store or did he write it to Head
    26        Office?
    27        A.  He addressed to it to the Store Manager.
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    29   Q.   Right.  You said that there was an investigation of the
    30        complaints?
    31        A.  Internally, yes.
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    33   Q.   Yes, I mean internally.
    34        A.  Within the store, yes.
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    36   Q.   You were involved in this investigation, were you?  I mean,
    37        you were helping the investigation?
    38        A.  I was not actually helping the investigation, no.  The
    39        investigation was carried out by the Store Manager.  I was
    40        just questioned on various aspects of it, as were the rest
         of the Managers.  We had a Managers' meeting and discussed
    42        the allegations and then Phil went off and investigated it.
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    44   Q.   Right.  You were the Manager who most often did the
    45        scheduling; is that correct?
    46        A.  No.
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    48   Q.   In the store generally?
    49        A.  No, I have not done the schedules since around 1992,
    50        I estimate.  I have not done the schedules at all since we 
    51        have been using the computer.  The last time I did the 
    52        schedules was while I was a Second Assistant Manager which 
    53        must have been at least two years ago.
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    55   Q.   What particular areas of responsibility did you take on or
    56        were you taking on in, say, 1994?
    57        A.  Apart from my overall day-to-day responsibilities,
    58        during 1994 I was responsible for the food cost -- that was
    59        one of my goals -- and the training grade.
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