Day 153 - 12 Jul 95 - Page 61
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2 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is the second statement which I have at
3 divider B before and it is paragraph 3 on page 3, I think.
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5 MR. MORRIS: Right, thank you. I am not sure if it is really.
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7 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think it is because the last sentence at
8 paragraph 40 deals with alleged insults and that
9 paragraph.
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11 MR. MORRIS: Right. "I was shouted at by Managers,
12 particularly the training squad".
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14 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is the shouting which you have dealt
15 with in paragraph 40, and then you see what is said in the
16 next paragraph of Mr. Alimi's statement.
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18 MR. MORRIS: Right. (To the witness): So do you accept that
19 people sometimes when the store got relatively frantic were
20 ordered about and shouted at by Managers?
21 A. I do not specifically accept that they were ordered
22 about. They were asked to do particular jobs -- I would
23 make that distinction -- rather than ordered. As far as
24 shouting, there were would be orders shouted across the
25 kitchen on occasions. For instance, if they wanted two
26 plain cheeseburgers and someone would shout: "Can we have
27 two plain cheeseburgers?" across the kitchen.
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29 The only other instance where the shouting may occur would
30 be if somebody, you know, forgot to put the meat down after
31 the buns at a set time, that sort of thing, to do with
32 procedures, but that would only be if the Manager was a
33 distance away and had noticed it. It would not be the
34 impression that is given in the statement that there was
35 ordering and aggressive insults being bandied about. That
36 certainly was not the case.
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38 Q. If we move over the page about Kevin Harrison: What was
39 the dissatisfaction that Kevin Harrison expressed about the
40 way the Company operated that you refer to in paragraph 43?
41 A. I cannot remember the exact details of his
42 dissatisfaction. I do, however, remember him voicing
43 complaints that -- as I remember, it was more to do with, I
44 do not know, management style, that sort of thing.
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46 Q. You said dissatisfaction about the way the Company
47 operated. "He became negative about McDonald's and the job
48 as a whole". What things were you thinking about when you
49 wrote that statement 18 months ago?
50 A. I am trying to give a good example but -- from the --
51 when -- as soon as he came to the Company, obviously, he
52 had a sort of a selection process where he had spent a
53 couple of days in the restaurant. When he actually joined
54 the Company, it was different from how -- from what he had
55 expected.
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57 I think he expected some sort of office type job rather
58 than a sort of on the floor, shoulder to shoulder with the
59 crew members type job, and it was the aspect that the
60 Managers were expected to muck in and join in with
