Day 203 - 12 Jan 96 - Page 25
1 week for the managers as a target.
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3 MR. MORRIS: You could have made him work longer hours, you said
4 -- you could have made him work six days a week or seven
5 days a week if you had wanted to, but you did not?
6 A. Can I just refer to that bit?
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8 Q. In the last sentence.
9 A. Of which page?
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11 Q. Sorry, at paragraph (5)?
12 A. OK.
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14 Q. "He only worked five days a week"?
15 A. I could have insisted to him that he worked more hours
16 but chose not to.
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18 Q. I mean, could you have insisted that he worked six days a
19 week, for example?
20 A. Yes. I did insist that he schedule himself the same
21 sort of shifts as he expected his Assistant Managers to
22 work, but he did not and he failed to do that consistently,
23 or he would have to change his schedule because of some
24 arrangement. He would set out to work a close or work a
25 Sunday, but something would come up and he would not end up
26 working it at all.
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28 Q. Right. Around this period, this whole period, there were
29 other stores being set up in Colchester; is that correct?
30 Was it the previous year the Tolgate store had been set up;
31 is that correct?
32 A. The period that I was supervising Ray?
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34 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Tolgate was set up in November 1990 and he
35 went there to manage it?
36 A. Correct, yes.
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38 Q. As I understand it -----
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40 MR. MORRIS: The Leisure World, when was that set up?
41 A. Well, it opened at the beginning of August.
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43 Q. Of?
44 A. 91, I believe.
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46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Your first year as Area Supervisor?
47 A. Yes
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49 MR. MORRIS: Leisure World opened in August 91?
50 A. It takes a few months preparation before it opens.
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52 Q. Had there been salaried management working to prepare the
53 Leisure World store, you know, earmarked for the Leisure
54 World store, and were working there before it opened up, or
55 does it not work like that?
56 A. Yes. I think there were. I think David Cable from,
57 who was the Manager of Tolgate, I think, after me -- when
58 Mr. Harney was made Store Manager of Tolgate, probably not
59 long after I was promoted to Supervisor, and I think then
60 David Cable became the Store Manager in-waiting, if you
