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.
    54
    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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