Day 203 - 12 Jan 96 - Page 67


     
     1        Company?
     2        A.  I did not know what I wanted to do, to be honest, but
     3        I did not know what I wanted to do when I joined
     4        McDonald's.  I was doing a degree doing Fine Art and
     5        I enjoyed my part-time job as a crew member at McDonald's
     6        and, consequently, because of the people I worked with,
     7        because of the managers in the restaurant in Brighton,
     8        because it was a very-well run restaurant, I found it very
     9        interesting, and became more interested and developed on
    10        from there.  I would not say I was ambitious when I started
    11        at McDonald's.  I would say, you know, when I started at
    12        McDonald's I just wanted my wages, work the hours I wanted
    13        to work and go down the pub or whatever, but, you know
    14         .....
    15
    16   Q.   The view of Ray Coton that you were constantly looking over
    17        his shoulder for faults in the restaurant expressed to you
    18        around this period, when you had these meetings with more
    19        senior officials, such as Mr. Atherton and Mike Guerin, did
    20        you put your point of view about what you were trying to
    21        achieve with Colchester, and did Ray Coton put his point of
    22        view about how he felt, you know, you were nit picking and
    23        finding fault with him?  Is that part of it anyway?
    24        A.  I mean, my senior management were aware of my point of
    25        view all the time.  I was the Supervisor of Colchester, and
    26        Ray had -- so they knew my point of view.
    27
    28   Q.   Yes, but was it expressed at these meetings, that you
    29        expressed your point of view and Ray Coton ------
    30        A.  No, I certainly did not press my point of view.  I do
    31        not think there was any need for me.  Did Ray express his
    32        point of view?  He certainly -- that particular statement
    33        that I have made, which is that he could not continue to
    34        work with me looking over his shoulder or feeling that he
    35        was at any moment about to be called out, is certainly
    36        something he said on a couple of occasions, and one of
    37        those occasions may, in fact, have been when senior
    38        management were there.  That is all I can say, to be
    39        honest, Mr. Morris.
    40
    41   Q.   But senior management knew his point of view anyway?  He
    42        was not a secret?  It was not something you kept from
    43        senior management?
    44        A.  Absolutely not and, you know, I mean, throughout his
    45        time as the Manager of Colchester, Ray had opportunities to
    46        communicate his point of view.  There was a formal
    47        complaint procedure in the Company whereby all we had to do
    48        was to write to Human Resources if there was that big a
    49        problem.
    50 
    51   Q.   The final paragraph of your statement goes on about the 
    52        meeting in the car with Ray Coton, yourself, John Atherton 
    53        and Mike Guerin.  You say the primary purpose was to
    54        discuss the purchase of his Company car, Ray Coton's
    55        Company car.  What were the other purposes of this meeting?
    56        A.  Well .....
    57
    58   Q.   General issues, were they?
    59        A.  I think the impression I have got is that Mike Guerin
    60        wanted to reassure himself that Ray Coton who had worked

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