Day 209 - 25 Jan 96 - Page 65
1 want to say something ------
2 A. It was just like I said, they tended to be done on
3 night shifts and a lot of them were signed, you know,
4 because there was a big thing about it after a while, but
5 before that period they were not signed by Managers, so
6 anybody, you know, because all the codes were floating
7 around. Anybody could do an adjustment and you could not
8 really blame it on anybody in particular except the Manager
9 who had that code, and it would not really be their fault
10 because they would have had to give their code to me to
11 close the system down so. And no -- it says no signatures
12 at all, but that is no Managers' signatures. I have never
13 known a crew member to be told of the adjustment made on
14 their clock card report unless they had requested it.
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16 Q. OK. If you just hold on one second?
17 A. It is certainly not standard practice to get the crew
18 -- to notify the crew member that his scheduling, his
19 hours actually worked, had been changed. I never, you
20 know, if it did happen it must have been very rare.
21 I never anybody tell someone that, you know, "You did not
22 clock out for your break yesterday; I clocked you out for
23 45 minutes", whatever, "an hour", or whatever it was. But
24 they were never told these things because they might not
25 have had a break because there was such bad communication,
26 the Manager on the night most of the time would be taking a
27 wild guess as to whether that person had a break. There
28 would not be a note left somewhere. There was no system in
29 place provided for that kind of thing.
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31 Q. Right. Yes, Ms. Steel will ask some questions.
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes? You have actually looked in the
34 manuals and so on to see whether there is any provision
35 that crew should sign as well as Managers, have you?
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37 MR. MORRIS: No, I was just .....
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do not take it up now. Just bear it in
40 mind.
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42 MS. STEEL: I just wanted to ask you a couple of things about
43 the grease troughs. Have you got the rap sessions there,
44 they are in tab 10?
45 A. Yes.
46
47 Q. If you turn to page 204 under the "Maintenance" section,
48 the second part is "No grill locks on any grills and no
49 ledge for middle grease trough though held up by" -----
50 A. It is "do not use tape", it is a special tape that we
51 have.
52
53 Q. So do you remember that?
54 A. Yes, I remember the middle grease trough, you know,
55 always being broken.
56
57 Q. Right.
58 A. Not, all right, not always but most of the time it
59 seemed to be hanging by a thread.
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