Day 188 - 15 Nov 95 - Page 11


     
     1        no.  During the filming period -----
     2
     3   Q.   So the shift patterns, was that when you were working?
     4        A.  When I worked the shifts and when I was doing the
     5        observations, there were no limitations on who we could
     6        talk to, where we went, what we watched.  I mean, we had
     7        very free access to the store and very good co-operation
     8        from everybody in the two stores.
     9
    10   Q.   When you were working?
    11        A.  From the whole period of watching what was happening in
    12        the stores.
    13
    14   Q.   And observation?
    15        A.  When I was doing the observation period and the shift
    16        pattern, there was complete co-operation from the stores.
    17
    18   Q.   I will come to your statement in a minute.  You said that
    19        you were treated like a full employee of McDonald's while
    20        you were working there?
    21        A.  When I did the shift pattern, it was -- when I did the
    22        shifts, I was treated on the shift on the grill floor as
    23        though I was a member of the grill team.  It was not --
    24        there were not any special excuses made for me.  There was
    25        not a kind of: "It is all right to be slower because you
    26        are not used to it", or something.  I mean, one had to get
    27        in there and get stuck in and do it.
    28
    29   Q.   What about the filming; did you have the same level of
    30        co-operation with the filming?
    31        A.  We had a lot of co-operation from the crew and what
    32        have you.  What happened, however, is that we were
    33        followed -- I mean, we were accompanied throughout the
    34        filming period by the public relations officer, Corinne;
    35        I cannot remember her surname.  She stayed with us
    36        throughout the whole period of filming, and she would
    37        intervene from time to time to stop us filming if she did
    38        not like the questions that were being asked or answered by
    39        the crew, or if she thought we were filming something that
    40        should not be seen.  She would also -----
    41
    42   Q.   Can you just give us some examples?
    43        A.  I think there was -- we were talking to some members of
    44        the crew in the crew room, and one of the members of the
    45        crew called Tony had actually been quite positive about
    46        enjoying working for McDonald's, and I think he was
    47        thinking about going on to try and become a Manager in the
    48        store; but he then started to say something on the lines
    49        that he did think that they were pressed too hard or asked
    50        too much of; and that at that point ----- 
    51 
    52   Q.   He did not think they were pressed or he thought they were 
    53        pressed too hard?
    54        A.  Thought the staff were pressed too hard by the
    55        management.  So he had been very positive up until that
    56        moment; and Corinne then intervened and said, "Stop the
    57        filming."  We tried to persuade her to carry on, and we
    58        wanted to ask the question of the crew members there: "What
    59        do you think is wrong with McDonald's?"  She said we could
    60        not ask that question.  She suggested an alternative

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