Day 179 - 30 Oct 95 - Page 37
1 A. It stayed in the vats until it was too bad to use.
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3 Q. Its shelf life was reduced by not being filtered?
4 A. Yes, it was, yes.
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6 Q. Do you not think that would have been a good deal more
7 costly than having the machine repaired or replaced?
8 A. Probably in the long run, yes.
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10 Q. Do you remember that a firm called Croda came on a regular
11 basis ---
12 A. I do not remember that firm, no.
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14 Q. -- to the store and took away the used oil?
15 A. I never saw the people. I know that someone did pick
16 it up in the drums, yes.
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18 Q. Do you know that they paid for it?
19 A. Yes, I think I did.
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21 Q. They would not have taken it, would they, if it had been
22 unfiltered?
23 A. They would not, no. It was in an oil drum.
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25 Q. You tell us in, not your supplementary statement, but in
26 your additional evidence, Mr. Gibney, that there was a
27 practice at the end of the busy periods, the school
28 holidays, of reducing the staff levels by getting rid of
29 people for unjust reasons; is that right?
30 A. If they were not considered to work fast enough,
31 whereas at the beginning of the holidays they would have
32 been fine.
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34 Q. You would say that was unjust and unfair, I expect, would
35 you not?
36 A. I think so, yes.
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38 Q. Yes. You said that was done by PRs?
39 A. That is right, yes.
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41 Q. You cannot get rid of somebody by doing a performance
42 review unless it is the one which comes at the end of their
43 three week probationary period, can you?
44 A. You can extend probation -- that quite often happened
45 -- for another three weeks.
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47 Q. How many probationers would you have, three week
48 probationers, in the store at the end of the school
49 holidays?
50 A. A lot, I should think.
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52 Q. Three or four, I suggest?
53 A. No, more than that.
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55 Q. Three week probationers, whose probation just coincided
56 with the end of the school holiday and you could then say:
57 "Oh, well, you have failed your probation; you are not to
58 come back"?
59 A. Several.
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