Day 155 - 14 Jul 95 - Page 40
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2 Q. If you want to be Store Manager of the Year, you want to
3 put on your best possible performance, do you not?
4 A. That is correct.
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6 Q. It would not be good if there were lots of trade union
7 leaflets lying around in the crew room?
8 A. It would not be good if there is a lot of McDonald's
9 environment/index.html">litter in the crew room neither.
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Did you have any view of what the Area
12 Supervisor might think if he found a file pile of trade
13 union leaflets on the crew room table when he went in
14 there?
15 A. I really was not interested, sir.
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17 MR. MORRIS: You were not interested in what the Area Supervisor
18 would think?
19 A. No, because the crew room had to be clean and tidy.
20 That is all I was interested in.
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22 Q. What else did you throw away when you went to the crew room
23 then?
24 A. If there was, like, bags, got a cloth, cleaned the
25 tables.
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27 Q. There were some bags in there, were there?
28 A. It had just been done. There might have been like a
29 bag there or anything on the floor.
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31 Q. Did you throw that away as well?
32 A. Anything that was in the way I threw away. We are
33 talking two tables here so .....
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35 Q. Do you have to ask the crew for permission before you go
36 into their room?
37 A. Into their crew room?
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39 Q. Yes.
40 A. No.
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42 Q. So it is not really their room, is it?
43 A. Yes, it is, but it is also my room.
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45 Q. It is a room for them but it is not their room?
46 A. It is for the crew and the management, just as my
47 office is for the crew and management.
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49 Q. It is not a crew room then? It is a crew and management
50 room.
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Quite frankly, I think that is just -----
53 A. I did not make the name. That is the name.
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55 MR. MORRIS: The crew cannot go into your office and throw
56 papers away they do not agree with, can they?
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58 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I really do think we have descended into
59 the playground again. Can we not stick to what really
60 matters in this case?
