Day 198 - 08 Dec 95 - Page 17

     
     1   Q.   Did you write that letter before any of these meetings?
     2        A.  Before.
     3
     4   Q.   Before?
     5        A.  Before.
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     7   Q.   Why did you write so disingenuous, dishonest a letter?
     8        A.  Dishonest a letter?
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    10   Q.   Yes?
    11        A.  Why is it dishonest a letter?
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    13   Q.   Because it does not say anything about:  "I am leaving
    14        because I cannot say the stand the pressure because you are
    15        making me do things which I do not like doing".
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    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Mr. Rampton, it does say "... in the light of
    18        recent and long term events which are too complicated and
    19        diverse to put down on paper" which, for all I know, may or
    20        may not relate to those, and the witness has made no bones
         about the fact that he did enjoy working for McDonald's
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    23   MR. RAMPTON:  Was that sentence:  "This is a decision I have not
    24        taken lightly but in the light of recent and long term
    25        events which are too complicated and diverse to put down on
    26        paper, I feel that this is a step I have been forced to
    27        make", as his Lordship suggests, a reference to what you
    28        have been telling us?
    29        A.  It is.  I mean, it is a well-known fact that I am
    30        someone that hates writing.  I have never been someone who
    31        enjoys writing long letters or long things.  So, whenever I
    32        do anything like that, I would always try to keep it as
    33        short as possible.  And the aim was to then sit down and
    34        discuss these on a one-to-one as opposed to write reams of
    35        paper over something.
    36
    37   Q.   Did you say just now -- I am afraid I did not hear it; a
    38        note has been put in front of me -- "My main reason for
    39        doing it, writing this letter, in the first place was to
    40        get a reaction.  It was never the intention to end up
         leaving the Company"?
    42        A.  That was correct.  I have said that two or three times
    43        during the course of the last couple of days.
    44
    45   Q.   What sort of reaction did you expect to get?
    46        A.  I wanted something done about the way I was being
    47        treated by Neil Skehel at the time who was using his
    48        position as a Supervisor to personally attack me.
    49
    50   Q.   So, it was not concern about these practices that you have 
    51        been telling us about? 
    52        A.  At the time, those practice was part of my working 
    53        day.  It was something that I had always been doing.  It is
    54        something that I had been trained to do, and it did not at
    55        the time seem to be unusual or that bad.  It is only
    56        actually leaving the Company and seeing how other companies
    57        operate, and being employed by a Company that does not put
    58        the same type of pressures on me, that you realise the
    59        things that you were doing and becoming a part of normal
    60        day were just not on.  It is something where you step back