Day 209 - 25 Jan 96 - Page 45
1 MR. MORRIS: "2. The crew rarely saw or even knew about the
2 clock card adjustment reports. To see them would take a
3 request to a Manager (salaried)."
4 A. Not necessarily. You know, you could ask me and
5 I would get them, if somebody wanted to see something.
6
7 Q. "There was no system in place for checking your own
8 adjustments and verifying. The Company could easily make
9 it the policy that everyone would have to sign to verify
10 any adjustment to their clocked-in times. The system is
11 otherwise open to abuse."
12 A. Where I was saying that there was no system in place,
13 there was very little communication between the Managers
14 from, say, a day shift to a night shift; so if anything
15 happened on that day shift, the night shift Manager would
16 be very unlikely to find out about it, because people --
17 you had a Manager's diary, but people tended to write
18 deliveries in there, parties, if they could not find the
19 party book, and other things, but they did not tend to
20 write little messages to each other about things like
21 that. You know, they were just forgotten about in the
22 rush.
23
24 No one ever -- the crew who were docked money, most of them
25 would never have been told what had happened to their clock
26 card. It would done on a night, and so they would never
27 know about it.
28
29 Q. "3. For three years he (Mike Logan) was the shift running
30 Manager two or three times per week, but still hourly
31 paid. No salaried Manager was on for most of those shifts,
32 and he very rarely was able to take a break on such shifts
33 except for maybe 10 to 15 minutes. Mike Logan had to use
34 salaried Managers' codes for entering the Husky system to
35 do a close (for three years)."
36
37 I just want to ask the question: how did you get that
38 salaried Manager's code?
39 A. Just, you know, if I was on the close and I did not
40 have a code at the time, I would just ask whoever was the
41 nearest salaried. It was either Ian or Sean or the Store
42 Manager, whoever was there.
43
44 Q. You said you did some closes there without any salaried
45 Manager present?
46 A. No, I am saying at four o'clock when the changeover
47 happened, one of my little notes would be, if I did not
48 have a code, it would be: "Oh, I need to get somebody's
49 code to close down tonight"; because the codes would
50 change. I think they were meant to change monthly or
51 something. Sometimes they did not, but, you know, I always
52 needed to find out a new code if it changed. But I would
53 normally have one person's, but sometimes, you know, you
54 could have two people's codes.
55
56 There was no other way for me to close down the system.
57 I did not have my own code, so I had to have a salaried
58 Manager's code to do the adjustment audit report,
59 et cetera, so I could close the system down. I think, yes,
60 they were meant to be personal codes, but a lot of people
