Day 188 - 15 Nov 95 - Page 68
1 not like it, you can get out'. Tony and I both
2 knew what we were talking about, i.e. the union
3 material, but neither of us ever mentioned it.
4
5 After the break-in but before my last encounter
6 with Tony I went and told Philip Pearson about
7 what had happened. Philip Pearson did
8 absolutely nothing about it. He was very
9 ineffectual. I was very disappointed and
10 frustrated about this. I think that Philip
11 Pearson did not give the support that he should
12 have given and was not really forthcoming with
13 any real encouragement.
14
15 A few days after the final encounter with Tony
16 I resigned from McDonald's for the following
17 reasons: 1. The college year was just about to
18 finish and I was going back to my home in
19 Manchester. 2. Whilst I could have stayed on
20 to work in London, I wanted to get back to
21 Manchester for personal reasons. 3. I just
22 could not take McDonald's any more. I could not
23 take the hassle that the managers were giving
24 me. One Assistant Manager in particular, Nadam,
25 was giving me real problems. We really did not
26 like each other at all. 4. The locker
27 incident. I was being given all the worst
28 jobs. I think that the management really hated
29 me. I did not exactly go out of my way to
30 please them. I answered back continuously.
31 I was impolite whilst on the till. I refused to
32 smile continuously at customers when told to do
33 so. I did these things just to spite all the
34 managers and the five star yellow badge people.
35 These were the people that I resented the most,
36 even more so than management. The five star
37 yellow badges had an awful lot of power.
38 I disliked them for their own stupidity. They
39 were treated like dirt by management and for
40 lousy wages as well. They got absolutely
41 nothing out of it and yet they managed to treat
42 the people below them as badly as they were
43 treated themselves. I think that these people
44 were just on an ego trip and I had no respect
45 for them whatsoever.
46
47 I made sure that I did not approach these people
48 when I was trying to recruit for the union.
49 These people would have reported straight to
50 management. The people I wanted to enrol were
51 the very people that the five star yellow badges
52 were kicking around.
53
54 Another matter which did not help was that I was
55 thoroughly fed up with working on a Saturday
56 night. I felt that I was working so many hours
57 and getting so little pay. I was convinced that
58 I was being cheated and not being paid for all
59 the hours that I worked. My average weekly pay
60 was approximately ú25 maximum. The most I ever
