Day 150 - 07 Jul 95 - Page 56
1 Q. How long did that go on for?
2 A. Sorry, the hourly rate?
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4 Q. No, this thing of him undertaking the tasks of Second
5 Assistant Managers?
6 A. OK, perhaps if I explain the sort of context of this?
7 I think Simon at the time was a 17 year old Floor Manager
8 and, as such -- the principal role of a Floor Manager was
9 in the, sort of, co-ordinating and leading of areas within
10 the store for that particular shift.
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12 So, for example, if I was a salaried Manager running the
13 shift, I could have Simon looking after the front counter
14 and the tasks therein. Some of the other tasks they were
15 asked to do were on top of that, some of the more
16 administrative sides of the business. I think there was a
17 Floor Manager doing the scheduling, there were Floor
18 Managers carrying out some of the weekly and monthly work.
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20 Q. How many Floor Managers would there have been in the store?
21 A. I think there probably three at the time.
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23 Q. At that time they were all doing the work that normally a
24 Second Assistant Manager would take on?
25 A. Yes, basically, there was a fairly experienced team of
26 salaried managers. So, in part of that idea of trying to
27 spread some of the tuition and the work-load, so to speak,
28 Simon was also doing tasks which you would probably
29 primarily concern it with, in terms of the financial
30 business side, the running of the operational side of the
31 business, carrying out tasks which I would expect those to
32 be the sort of food and drinks, so to speak, of the
33 Assistant Manager.
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35 Q. How long was that situation going on for?
36 A. When I came down to the area in 86, I think Simon and
37 some of the other Floor Managers were carrying out those
38 various roles. It was not to take the responsibility away,
39 so to speak, but certainly in educating the other salaried
40 managers and giving their salaried position some worth, so
41 to speak, I just, I guess, advised Mark not to have all the
42 role. Because Simon and the Floor Managers were the most
43 experienced hourly paid staff, if you like, who knew the
44 restaurant, it would be easier, perhaps, to give them the
45 job rather than teach the Assistant Managers so that First
46 Assistants -- so, in a way Mark was going to plan his
47 succession, so to speak, so that he could develop Second
48 Assistants and First Assistants and develop someone to run
49 the business with him rather than purely and solely through
50 the Floor Managers.
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52 Q. At that time did he not have First and Second Assistant
53 Managers?
54 A. I think there was a First Assistant and, perhaps, a
55 second, but in terms of, a bit like with the crew schedule,
56 certainly the more managers would make the job easier, it
57 would certainly make one manager responsible for training,
58 one for payroll, and so on and so forth, would make life
59 much easier, would help the training of the Floor Managers,
60 so to speak.
