Day 209 - 25 Jan 96 - Page 46


     
     1        knew other people's codes.
     2
     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  On some of these, we have seen a time, we
     4        have seen the date, which is the day after the shifts which
     5        are on the printout, and then we see a time, 0041 or
     6        something.
     7        A.  The clock card reports?
     8
     9   Q.   That is when you, or whoever the person running the close
    10        is, is closing it down, is it?
    11        A.  Yes, on the adjustment audit reports.
    12
    13   Q.   Yes.
    14        A.  Yes.  The time at the end at the side will show what
    15        time it was made.  They were mostly made at night.
    16
    17   Q.   But that is because the person doing it is sitting there
    18        doing "paperwork", while the rest of the shift are getting
    19        on with cleaning up, is it?
    20        A.  Yes.  You tend to have to do the cashing up, and then
    21        the inventory, and then you would close down the system.
    22        But, you know, the closing of the system will probably be
    23        the last thing you did.  You would have to input the
    24        inventory, I think, before you could close it down.
    25
    26        That might have changed when we got a -- we had what was
    27        called an ISP.  I think that came in in late 1993 or 1994,
    28        and then you could do the inventory afterwards.  But before
    29        that point, everything had to be done before you closed the
    30        system down, I think.
    31
    32        But you could not get in the system without a code and you
    33        could not leave the store without closing it, so I needed
    34        somebody else's code to do it; and I did ask -- I asked
    35        Alan Charlesworth when he was there if I could have my own
    36        code, and he said he would sort it out, because there was
    37        supposedly something in the pipeline to give shift running
    38        Floor Managers a code, but it never materialised.  Until
    39        I left, I still did not have a code of my own.
    40
    41   MR. MORRIS:  Moving on, reading out from the notes:
    42        "4.  'Freezer' stickers were on occasion put on
    43        out-of-date buns to be able to use them and avoid the 'use
    44        by' deadline, especially in 1991/1992."
    45        A.  Yes.  I would say that is when the store was at its
    46        most dodgy -- if the word can be used.  If the Manager who
    47        was on the day shift noticed that buns were going out of
    48        date, if he had not done the order and they were not going
    49        to run out, perhaps he would throw them away.  But if he
    50        done the order, it was more than likely he was going to try 
    51        and cover it up.  I would not say it happened all the time, 
    52        or not even half the time, but it did happen a few times. 
    53        I have seen it happen before -- knowing full well that
    54        there had not been any buns in the freezer, because I had
    55        done the inventory the night before, and there were freezer
    56        buns the next day.
    57
    58   Q.   Point 5, reading from the notes: "Mike Logan remembers on
    59        two occasions in 1991-ish and 1993-ish sewage came up
    60        through the drain in the back room."

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