Day 155 - 14 Jul 95 - Page 48


     
     1        come back to work -- that is obviously an extreme case --
     2        what would you do?
     3
     4   MR. RAMPTON:  This is fantasy.
     5
     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, we must get to the point, Mr. Morris.  It
     7        is not handicapping you if you get directly to the point.
     8
     9   MS. STEEL:  If someone did not come to you in response to say:
    10         "Hey, I need to get my uniform out of my locker and there
    11        is a strange lock on it", you would go and take both locks
    12        off the locker eventually, yes?
    13        A.  Yes, with the individual.
    14
    15   Q.   If they did not come you and you did not know who they
    16        were, you would not forever two locks on the locker, would
    17        you?
    18        A.  That is correct.
    19
    20   Q.   So you would go and take it off yourself?
    21        A.  Take, what, my locker off?
    22
    23   Q.   Take your lock off and the other person's lock off so that
    24        you could use the locker again?
    25        A.  Over, you know, a period of two, three months, then,
    26        yes.
    27
    28   Q.   You would leave it that long, would you?
    29        A.  Yes, because some people actually go away for two or
    30        three months study leave.
    31
    32   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You have a locker which is not being used
    33        during that period.  It does not matter where they are.
    34        I thought you wanted the lockers to be available for
    35        everyone's use?
    36        A.  Yes, but if it is only one locker, it is not really an
    37        issue because we had -- if you had 140 lockers or 120
    38        lockers, the most staff we ever had at any one time was
    39        Saturday afternoon when there would be about 42, 43
    40        people.  So that still left 60 odd lockers absolutely free.
    41
    42   MS. STEEL:  So there were enough lockers for staff to have one
    43        each if they wanted to?
    44        A.  If they wanted to, yes.
    45
    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Why should they not have one each then?
    47        A.  Because over a period of time there were some people
    48        that were leaving uniforms in there which, as you can
    49        appreciate, once uniforms have been worn and left in there
    50        for a week, it was not a very pleasant smell. 
    51 
    52   MR. MORRIS:  But if a locker was locked up and you could not get 
    53        access to it, you would wait 3 months?  If they left fruit
    54        in it that was rotting and smelling?
    55        A.  If they had done that, you would have noticed.
    56
    57   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The difficulty I am having at the moment is
    58        that if there are all that number of lockers and certain
    59        people on the payroll, what on earth is wrong letting
    60        people bag a locker as their on and put their own lock on

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