Day 209 - 25 Jan 96 - Page 35
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2 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think you ought to ask Mr. Logan a bit more
3 about that final day, along the lines of what he was
4 scheduled to do, whether he went in at all or not, when he
5 decided not to work the shift and why.
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7 MR. MORRIS: Right. (To the witness) Just explain?
8 A. I will explain.
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Take it step by step. Although we have
11 various computer aids and transcripts in due course, I am
12 actually taking a note. So break it up.
13 A. Sure. I came into the store at about three o'clock
14 3.30, around that time, as normally you come in half an
15 hour to three-quarters of an hour early for your shift.
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17 MR. MORRIS: That is because of your position?
18 A. Yes, because I was the shift running Floor Manager.
19 I came in, and Joe Stapeley was on wrap and call.
20 Joe Stapeley was not a Manager; she used to work lobby, but
21 she had to do wrap and call. There were no other Managers
22 around, and Joe said to me, I cannot remember who it was,
23 but somebody is sick from the night shift, and I went, "Oh,
24 great", you know; and then I went round the back and
25 I looked at the schedule and, from what I saw on the
26 schedule, I had four people and one was already sick -----
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Pause there. Just pause, and then you can go
29 on. (Pause) Yes.
30 A. Where was I?
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32 Q. You went round the back, looked at the schedule; you had
33 four people, and one was already sick.
34 A. One was sick, scheduled for my shift. That did not
35 include the Floor Manager on that night, OK? But there
36 were only -- I envisaged there were only going to be three
37 people to physically do the close, the close being after 11
38 p.m., to strip everything, to -----
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40 Q. When you say the Floor Manager on that night, do you mean
41 Floor Manager?
42 A. Yes. There was another Floor Manager on, but he was
43 due in at about 4.00. There were no other Managers there,
44 at the time, and I just finally thought: "I have had
45 enough", you know. I had had enough of spending my night
46 shifts working wrap and call or working a till, instead of
47 managing, you know, and just going -- and being expected to
48 do a tour of the store and then go back on wrap and call.
49 I was expected to go round the store every half hour and
50 make sure everything was all right. But if I could never
51 leave the station I was actually working, I did not see how
52 I was meant to do it, and it was a -- it just upset me, and
53 that was it.
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55 I had had an offer from this chap to make art deco lamps,
56 and I just thought: "Right, that is it." On the spur of
57 the moment, I just walked out. But I think I was always
58 extremely reliable before that time. All my PRs point to
59 that. I just had enough.
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