Day 153 - 12 Jul 95 - Page 61


     
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     2   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is the second statement which I have at
     3        divider B before and it is paragraph 3 on page 3, I think.
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     5   MR. MORRIS:   Right, thank you.  I am not sure if it is really.
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     7   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think it is because the last sentence at
     8        paragraph 40 deals with alleged insults and that
     9        paragraph.
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    11   MR. MORRIS:   Right.  "I was shouted at by Managers,
    12        particularly the training squad".
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    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That is the shouting which you have dealt
    15        with in paragraph 40, and then you see what is said in the
    16        next paragraph of Mr. Alimi's statement.
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    18   MR. MORRIS:   Right.  (To the witness):  So do you accept that
    19        people sometimes when the store got relatively frantic were
    20        ordered about and shouted at by Managers?
    21        A.  I do not specifically accept that they were ordered
    22        about.  They were asked to do particular jobs -- I would
    23        make that distinction -- rather than ordered.  As far as
    24        shouting, there were would be orders shouted across the
    25        kitchen on occasions.  For instance, if they wanted two
    26        plain cheeseburgers and someone would shout:  "Can we have
    27        two plain cheeseburgers?" across the kitchen.
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    29        The only other instance where the shouting may occur would
    30        be if somebody, you know, forgot to put the meat down after
    31        the buns at a set time, that sort of thing, to do with
    32        procedures, but that would only be if the Manager was a
    33        distance away and had noticed it.  It would not be the
    34        impression that is given in the statement that there was
    35        ordering and aggressive insults being bandied about.  That
    36        certainly was not the case.
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    38   Q.   If we move over the page about Kevin Harrison:  What was
    39        the dissatisfaction that Kevin Harrison expressed about the
    40        way the Company operated that you refer to in paragraph 43?
    41        A.  I cannot remember the exact details of his
    42        dissatisfaction.  I do, however, remember him voicing
    43        complaints that -- as I remember, it was more to do with, I
    44        do not know, management style, that sort of thing.
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    46   Q.   You said dissatisfaction about the way the Company
    47        operated.  "He became negative about McDonald's and the job
    48        as a whole".  What things were you thinking about when you
    49        wrote that statement 18 months ago?
    50        A.  I am trying to give a good example but -- from the -- 
    51        when -- as soon as he came to the Company, obviously, he 
    52        had a sort of a selection process where he had spent a 
    53        couple of days in the restaurant.  When he actually joined
    54        the Company, it was different from how -- from what he had
    55        expected.
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    57        I think he expected some sort of office type job rather
    58        than a sort of on the floor, shoulder to shoulder with the
    59        crew members type job, and it was the aspect that the
    60        Managers were expected to muck in and join in with

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