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.
    15
    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.
    30
    31   Q.   Right.  Yes, Ms. Steel will ask some questions.
    32
    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?
    36
    37   MR. MORRIS:  No, I was just .....
    38
    39   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do not take it up now.  Just bear it in
    40        mind.
    41
    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.
    60

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