Day 155 - 14 Jul 95 - Page 61
1 and figures, but I take it you did not actually go round
2 and do a survey?
3 A. No.
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5 Q. This is just your best estimate, is it?
6 A. Yes, sir.
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8 MR. MORRIS: Something I will deal with that you commented on:
9 Mr. Magee had commented that he was given all the worst
10 jobs; "I think that management really hated me. I did not
11 exactly go out of my way to please them. I answered back
12 continuously". Do some people get disgruntled about their
13 relations with the Managers?
14 A. Yes, like in any other business sometimes there are
15 difficulties.
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17 Q. Right, or that they do not like the conditions or the job?
18 A. I did not say that. It could be anything. It could be
19 personal problems. It could be something someone said to
20 them. It could be anything.
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: There must have always been people working
23 at McDonald's, as in anywhere else, who for whatever
24 reason, good or bad, did not like the conditions they were
25 working in or were dissatisfied about something or other.
26 A. Yes, I mean, you know, it is like what I mentioned
27 earlier, it is like in any other job, you will get some
28 people that are like that.
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30 MR. MORRIS: Do some people get fed up with being bossed around
31 and they answer back to management at McDonald's?
32 A. I think a lot of that has to do with the individual
33 Manager. I have not come across that in 13, 14 years.
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35 Q. You have never come across that?
36 A. No.
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38 Q. You have never come across a situation where workers at
39 McDonald's have said, "That is it", and ripped up their
40 crew handbook and stormed out and said: "That is the last
41 you are seeing of me"? You have never had things like that
42 -- people saying: "That is it; I have had enough of this
43 job"?
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45 MR. RAMPTON: That was not the question. The question was
46 whether Mr. Giardina knew of any case in which they got fed
47 up on the specific ground of bossy Managers.
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49 MR. MORRIS: To get people that are fed up with the job and just
50 walking out fed up, "That is it, I have had enough. Stuff
51 your job"?
52 A. Sometimes you get people like that but not through
53 being bossed around.
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55 Q. You do not know, you cannot get inside their mind, can you?
56 A. Yes, that is why I answered your initial question that
57 way.
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59 Q. When people are fed up with the job, for whatever reason,
60 it might end up with them throwing their uniform across the
