Day 175 - 18 Oct 95 - Page 40
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2 MR. MORRIS: I just want to see if there are any further
3 questions.
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, thank you. Just pause a moment.
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7 MR. MORRIS: Just one further question about all the jobs you
8 may have done. How many jobs have you done since
9 McDonald's?
10 A. Well, I have probably done three or four serious jobs
11 but I went travelling for a period, so I did loads of jobs
12 while I was travelling in Australia mostly.
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14 Q. How do you evaluate McDonald's compared to other jobs that
15 you have done?
16 A. Well, I think McDonald's is the worst place I have ever
17 worked. It is the hardest place I have ever worked with
18 the least gratitude; the conditions were intolerable, I
19 have worked as a hotel porter, I have worked as a waiter
20 and I have been abused by people working as a waiter but
21 nothing like having to work in McDonald's.
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23 I mean, it would not -- it is not exaggerating to say that
24 I thought that there were times when working at McDonald's
25 was like being in hell, because you had managers screaming
26 at you, there were massive queues of customers waiting for
27 food getting impatient, and you felt that pressure as an
28 individual, and the Manager made sure you felt that
29 pressure because it was you that was holding everything
30 back. Everyone was being kicked to make sure they worked
31 -- in a metaphorical sense -- to work harder and harder
32 and harder, and it just ground you into the ground. I have
33 worked in jobs since then but I have never had to
34 experience that and I would not want to.
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36 MR. MORRIS: We have no further questions.
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, thank you.
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40 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, there is no chance I will finish tonight,
41 I am afraid.
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43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I will leave it entirely to you as to whether
44 you start now or in the morning, Mr. Rampton.
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46 MR. RAMPTON: I can ask some preliminary questions. I have a
47 quest for information to pursue, apart from anything else,
48 as your Lordship has probably realised. Some of that, I
49 have no doubt I can get from Mr. Whittle in the witness box
50 -- at least I hope I can -- the rest of it, I am afraid,
51 I shall have to seek elsewhere.
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53 The reason I said that, my Lord, is that, quite clearly,
54 there has been a good deal of what Mr. Whittle has said in
55 the witness box -- this is no criticism of him -- which was
56 not even contained in the pieces of paper that we were
57 given at lunch-time. What I am wondering is -- he is
58 obviously going to have to come back to be cross-examined
59 -- what is in your Lordship's mind about that, given that
60 there are some things, obviously, when I have some names
