Day 150 - 07 Jul 95 - Page 42
1 speed. Does that have any resonance for you in relation to
2 this?
3 A. Yes, that is probably the way I should have used in
4 terms of trying to explain the idea of trying to do one
5 task; think about what you are going to do. Collect A
6 before you collect B, and so on and so forth. Be
7 purposeful rather than just run around inefficiently.
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9 Q. I have already asked you whether your interpretation, as it
10 were, in theory of what hustle is, as far as you are
11 concerned, shared by others in the Company; just on that,
12 is your understanding that what people have believed it to
13 be about has remained the same for the years that you have
14 been in the Company?
15 A. Yes, it has.
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17 Q. There I am talking about the theory.
18 A. Yes.
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20 Q. In practice, is that interpretation something on which you
21 have acted and on which you acted at Colchester in the
22 mid-1980s?
23 A. Yes.
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25 Q. Did you put it into practice?
26 A. I put it into practice.
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28 Q. In your experience, generally speaking, and also in
29 relation to Colchester, in practice, is that how it has
30 been interpreted both by the management and/or the crew?
31 A. Yes, it has.
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33 Q. Again I will ask it, how do you know that that is true?
34 A. Because for six hours, two or three days a week, I am
35 in the restaurant being actually on the front counter or in
36 the vicinity to know exactly what is going on and that was
37 not going on.
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39 Q. Do you think there are any safety implications related to
40 running?
41 A. Well, in the terms of the running and sliding and just
42 trying to throw together an order, I would say nine times
43 out of 10 people have been running into each other and
44 running into bits of equipment or sliding into bits of
45 equipment, if that was the norm.
46
47 Q. Do you care about safety?
48 A. I care about safety. I care about people's safety.
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50 Q. Would this system, if it were going on, running and
51 sliding, hurt not only crew but any member of management
52 who happened to be walking around in the area?
53 A. Well, again the idea of people running and sliding into
54 each other, whether it is crew members or managers, they
55 are will in that vicinity so, yes, it would happen.
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57 Q. So it would affect everybody?
58 A. It would affect everybody in the restaurant.
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60 Q. Do you perceive there to be a problem of running and
