Day 203 - 12 Jan 96 - Page 59
1 in that store was deficient?
2 A. It would show that the systems in the restaurant are
3 not very good with relation to management of the safe, and
4 the restaurant Manager is accountable for those systems.
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6 Q. That goes, presumably, for knowing anybody else's Husky
7 entry number personal number, that would show poor
8 management?
9 A. Yes, I would say in this case it does show, yes. It
10 would, yes.
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12 Q. So if it was to transpire that we could show that in 70
13 per cent of all the stores in the country that applied,
14 that would imply that the whole Company was poorly managed,
15 would it?
16 A. No, it would not imply that at all. It would imply --
17 if you could demonstrate that, it would imply that we need
18 to -- sorry, what was the actual implication about again?
19 I have lost track.
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21 Q. If it was basically general practice that other people knew
22 people other people's personal entry number into the Husky
23 system, that would be widespread mismanagement which the
24 Company would have to take responsibility for?
25 A. I do not think I am in a position to comment on that.
26 I do not feel in a position to comment on that. But
27 I think that there are set procedures -----
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29 Q. It is a good reason to come here and to have a go at
30 Ray Coton in the witness box under oath, anything at all
31 you can dredge up about him to have a go and attack his
32 credibility; you are happy to stand there and do it night
33 and day?
34 A. I think I am really commenting on what my opinion was
35 of the standards in Colchester High Street when I was the
36 Supervisor. I do not apologise for the fact that I thought
37 those standards were poor; and that was clear to Ray at the
38 time and, if it is not clear to Ray now, he is deluded. As
39 regards that -- my point about Colchester High Street,
40 Mr. Morris, if I might say, is not any one thing was wrong,
41 but just that so many things were wrong. I have said in my
42 statement that I was fire fighting, that it was quite
43 difficult for me as a new Supervisor to know where to
44 begin, to be honest, with Ray, and I simply took each thing
45 as it occurred and did my best with the people in the
46 restaurant to put the things right. I attended restaurant
47 Managers meetings, and so on. But there were so many
48 things wrong in Colchester High Street that it was
49 something which needed to be dealt with by performance
50 review rather than discipline the individuals at every step
51 of the way.
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53 May I just come back to your statement about the whole of
54 the Company being badly managed?
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Leave that alone, because we will have to see
57 if there is any basis for it.
58 A. Sorry.
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60 MR. MORRIS: Did you put the document on 18th July which you --
