Day 175 - 18 Oct 95 - Page 33


     
     1   Q.   Yes.  If it is not put between with the arrows ---
     2        A.  That is right, yes.
     3
     4   Q.   -- are you saying it is on a part of the grill which is
     5        cooler than it should be for cooking?
     6        A.  Yes.  But, also, if the grill is not being used
     7        correctly, then it does not get a chance to reheat, which
     8        is what happened if they did a sear lay.
     9
    10   Q.   What does that mean?
    11        A.  That meant that instead of laying the meat every time
    12        you turned the previous group of meat, you actually laid it
    13        down after you had seared the first set, so you were
    14        cooking it a lot faster; the grill got used too much, or
    15        too quickly; the same part of the grill was being re-used
    16        before it had a chance to reheat.
    17
    18   MR. MORRIS:  On the next page, which is page 4 at the top
    19        righthand corner, the second paragraph is about environment/index.html">litter
    20        patrols; yes?
    21        A.  Yes.
    22
    23   Q.   Can you just read it to yourself and say if there is
    24        anything else you would like to add, or explain why this
    25        was the situation, or whatever.
    26        A.  The environment/index.html">litter patrol in the store that I worked at was
    27        seen as a joke, really.  The Managers would laugh about it,
    28        because you were told, like I said here, to only -- you
    29        were supposed to pick up all environment/index.html">litter around the store, but
    30        they only picked up McDonald's environment/index.html">litter, and they used to
    31        laugh about it and say that it was not a serious intention
    32        of theirs to clear all the environment/index.html">litter, it was just something
    33        used to impress the local council or the community with.
    34        They were not serious about it.  New people got laughed at
    35        if they came back with a really big bag full of everyone
    36        else's environment/index.html">litter, because it was as if they had missed the
    37        point.  I suppose you could say it was a cosmetic
    38        exercise.
    39
    40   Q.   Was this just something that happened because the crew did
    41        not want to do it, or what?
    42        A.  No, this what the managers -- like I said, the managers
    43        decided what the environment/index.html">litter patrol was to be and told you what
    44        to do, so you were in no doubt that they did not consider
    45        it a serious thing to do.  Some of the things in the rule
    46        book, I suppose, were seen as tongue-in-cheek, and this was
    47        an example of one of them.
    48
    49        I think, as well, sometimes the environment/index.html">litter patrol was used as a
    50        punishment.  If it was freezing cold, and someone had been 
    51        considered to be cheeky or something, then they would be 
    52        sent out to do a environment/index.html">litter patrol and told to take a certain 
    53        amount of time.
    54
    55   Q.   In the next paragraph, you talk about the severity of the
    56        management team constantly changed, and this would enable
    57        managers to discipline or sack staff who were breaking
    58        minor rules which had not previously been enforced.  Have
    59        you any examples of this that come to mind?
    60        A.  Well, I think that there were loads of examples

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