Day 155 - 14 Jul 95 - Page 61


     
     1        and figures, but I take it you did not actually go round
     2        and do a survey?
     3        A.  No.
     4
     5   Q.   This is just your best estimate, is it?
     6        A.  Yes, sir.
     7
     8   MR. MORRIS:  Something I will deal with that you commented on:
     9        Mr. Magee had commented that he was given all the worst
    10        jobs; "I think that management really hated me.  I did not
    11        exactly go out of my way to please them.  I answered back
    12        continuously".  Do some people get disgruntled about their
    13        relations with the Managers?
    14        A.  Yes, like in any other business sometimes there are
    15        difficulties.
    16
    17   Q.   Right, or that they do not like the conditions or the job?
    18        A.  I did not say that.  It could be anything.  It could be
    19        personal problems.  It could be something someone said to
    20        them.  It could be anything.
    21
    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   There must have always been people working
    23        at McDonald's, as in anywhere else, who for whatever
    24        reason, good or bad, did not like the conditions they were
    25        working in or were dissatisfied about something or other.
    26        A.  Yes, I mean, you know, it is like what I mentioned
    27        earlier, it is like in any other job, you will get some
    28        people that are like that.
    29
    30   MR. MORRIS:  Do some people get fed up with being bossed around
    31        and they answer back to management at McDonald's?
    32        A.  I think a lot of that has to do with the individual
    33        Manager.  I have not come across that in 13, 14 years.
    34
    35   Q.   You have never come across that?
    36        A.  No.
    37
    38   Q.   You have never come across a situation where workers at
    39        McDonald's have said, "That is it", and ripped up their
    40        crew handbook and stormed out and said: "That is the last
    41        you are seeing of me"?  You have never had things like that
    42         -- people saying: "That is it; I have had enough of this
    43        job"?
    44
    45   MR. RAMPTON:  That was not the question.  The question was
    46        whether Mr. Giardina knew of any case in which they got fed
    47        up on the specific ground of bossy Managers.
    48
    49   MR. MORRIS:  To get people that are fed up with the job and just
    50        walking out fed up, "That is it, I have had enough.  Stuff 
    51        your job"? 
    52        A.  Sometimes you get people like that but not through 
    53        being bossed around.
    54
    55   Q.   You do not know, you cannot get inside their mind, can you?
    56        A.  Yes, that is why I answered your initial question that
    57        way.
    58
    59   Q.   When people are fed up with the job, for whatever reason,
    60        it might end up with them throwing their uniform across the

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