Day 209 - 25 Jan 96 - Page 45


     
     1   MR. MORRIS:  "2.  The crew rarely saw or even knew about the
     2        clock card adjustment reports.  To see them would take a
     3        request to a Manager (salaried)."
     4        A.  Not necessarily.  You know, you could ask me and
     5        I would get them, if somebody wanted to see something.
     6
     7   Q.  "There was no system in place for checking your own
     8        adjustments and verifying.  The Company could easily make
     9        it the policy that everyone would have to sign to verify
    10        any adjustment to their clocked-in times.  The system is
    11        otherwise open to abuse."
    12        A.  Where I was saying that there was no system in place,
    13        there was very little communication between the Managers
    14        from, say, a day shift to a night shift; so if anything
    15        happened on that day shift, the night shift Manager would
    16        be very unlikely to find out about it, because people --
    17        you had a Manager's diary, but people tended to write
    18        deliveries in there, parties, if they could not find the
    19        party book, and other things, but they did not tend to
    20        write little messages to each other about things like
    21        that.  You know, they were just forgotten about in the
    22        rush.
    23
    24        No one ever -- the crew who were docked money, most of them
    25        would never have been told what had happened to their clock
    26        card.  It would done on a night, and so they would never
    27        know about it.
    28
    29   Q.  "3. For three years he (Mike Logan) was the shift running
    30        Manager two or three times per week, but still hourly
    31        paid.  No salaried Manager was on for most of those shifts,
    32        and he very rarely was able to take a break on such shifts
    33        except for maybe 10 to 15 minutes.  Mike Logan had to use
    34        salaried Managers' codes for entering the Husky system to
    35        do a close (for three years)."
    36
    37        I just want to ask the question: how did you get that
    38        salaried Manager's code?
    39        A.  Just, you know, if I was on the close and I did not
    40        have a code at the time, I would just ask whoever was the
    41        nearest salaried.  It was either Ian or Sean or the Store
    42        Manager, whoever was there.
    43
    44   Q.   You said you did some closes there without any salaried
    45        Manager present?
    46        A.  No, I am saying at four o'clock when the changeover
    47        happened, one of my little notes would be, if I did not
    48        have a code, it would be: "Oh, I need to get somebody's
    49        code to close down tonight"; because the codes would
    50        change.  I think they were meant to change monthly or 
    51        something.  Sometimes they did not, but, you know, I always 
    52        needed to find out a new code if it changed.  But I would 
    53        normally have one person's, but sometimes, you know, you
    54        could have two people's codes.
    55
    56        There was no other way for me to close down the system.
    57        I did not have my own code, so I had to have a salaried
    58        Manager's code to do the adjustment audit report,
    59        et cetera, so I could close the system down.  I think, yes,
    60        they were meant to be personal codes, but a lot of people

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