Day 203 - 12 Jan 96 - Page 67
1 Company?
2 A. I did not know what I wanted to do, to be honest, but
3 I did not know what I wanted to do when I joined
4 McDonald's. I was doing a degree doing Fine Art and
5 I enjoyed my part-time job as a crew member at McDonald's
6 and, consequently, because of the people I worked with,
7 because of the managers in the restaurant in Brighton,
8 because it was a very-well run restaurant, I found it very
9 interesting, and became more interested and developed on
10 from there. I would not say I was ambitious when I started
11 at McDonald's. I would say, you know, when I started at
12 McDonald's I just wanted my wages, work the hours I wanted
13 to work and go down the pub or whatever, but, you know
14 .....
15
16 Q. The view of Ray Coton that you were constantly looking over
17 his shoulder for faults in the restaurant expressed to you
18 around this period, when you had these meetings with more
19 senior officials, such as Mr. Atherton and Mike Guerin, did
20 you put your point of view about what you were trying to
21 achieve with Colchester, and did Ray Coton put his point of
22 view about how he felt, you know, you were nit picking and
23 finding fault with him? Is that part of it anyway?
24 A. I mean, my senior management were aware of my point of
25 view all the time. I was the Supervisor of Colchester, and
26 Ray had -- so they knew my point of view.
27
28 Q. Yes, but was it expressed at these meetings, that you
29 expressed your point of view and Ray Coton ------
30 A. No, I certainly did not press my point of view. I do
31 not think there was any need for me. Did Ray express his
32 point of view? He certainly -- that particular statement
33 that I have made, which is that he could not continue to
34 work with me looking over his shoulder or feeling that he
35 was at any moment about to be called out, is certainly
36 something he said on a couple of occasions, and one of
37 those occasions may, in fact, have been when senior
38 management were there. That is all I can say, to be
39 honest, Mr. Morris.
40
41 Q. But senior management knew his point of view anyway? He
42 was not a secret? It was not something you kept from
43 senior management?
44 A. Absolutely not and, you know, I mean, throughout his
45 time as the Manager of Colchester, Ray had opportunities to
46 communicate his point of view. There was a formal
47 complaint procedure in the Company whereby all we had to do
48 was to write to Human Resources if there was that big a
49 problem.
50
51 Q. The final paragraph of your statement goes on about the
52 meeting in the car with Ray Coton, yourself, John Atherton
53 and Mike Guerin. You say the primary purpose was to
54 discuss the purchase of his Company car, Ray Coton's
55 Company car. What were the other purposes of this meeting?
56 A. Well .....
57
58 Q. General issues, were they?
59 A. I think the impression I have got is that Mike Guerin
60 wanted to reassure himself that Ray Coton who had worked
