Day 203 - 12 Jan 96 - Page 27


     
     1        derived, I would have expected him to be there.
     2
     3   Q.   You deliberately went down when he was not there because
     4        you wanted to find things on him which you could use
     5        against him to get him out as a Manager?
     6        A.  Absolute nonsense.  Absolute nonsense.  That is all
     7        I can say.
     8
     9   Q.   Did you look through the paperwork when you went down
    10        there?
    11        A.  I did look through the paperwork.  That is right.  I
    12        mean, if I turned up on a Monday morning and someone was
    13        doing the weekly work, I would, you know, join them.  I
    14        would have a look and see how they were getting on and what
    15        they were doing, but I would also at the same time be
    16        concerned not to disrupt what they were doing, so that it
    17        became, you know, a more protracted exercise, and let them
    18        get on with what they were doing.  That is what I wanted
    19        the Store Managers to do; I wanted them to get on with what
    20        they were doing and not worry about me as a new
    21        Supervisor.  They should just, you know, get on with their
    22        daily activities and I would simply assist with the shift
    23        and would see how it went.  I did not want -- I wanted to
    24        see what it ran like every day of the week, you know, and
    25        I wanted the Manager to be there at critical times so that
    26         -- or I wanted to be there with the manager so that we
    27        could just talk about it but not, you know, not in  -----
    28
    29   Q.   If they were unannounced visits, you said at the last
    30        sentence:  "At times it occurred to me he could have been
    31        avoiding me".  How could he avoid you if it is an
    32        unannounced visit?
    33        A.  Is that on the same page, is it?
    34
    35   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, it is the very bottom of the page, the
    36        same paragraph.
    37        A.  Yes, at times it occurred to me that he could have been
    38        avoiding me.
    39
    40   MR. MORRIS:  During your unannounced visits?
    41
    42   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What is being put to you, you see, it follows
    43        immediately on the sentence before, and it is suggested it
    44        does not make sense if you are concluding that he could
    45        have been avoiding you because ---
    46        A.  All right, OK.
    47
    48   Q.   -- he was not there when your unannounced visits took
    49        place?
    50        A.  I think what I should add really is that I did 
    51        obviously, you know, if you have got a Manager who is not 
    52        in the store at critical times, you talk about it with that 
    53        Manager, and I spoke about it with Ray and, you know, we
    54        scheduled specific occasions when we would both be in the
    55        restaurant, but I think on those occasions actually pinning
    56        the issues down and actually coming up with a conclusive
    57        course of action was extremely difficult to do because, you
    58        know, I would announce that I was coming, I would expect
    59        them to have -----
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