Day 188 - 15 Nov 95 - Page 68


     
     1             not like it, you can get out'.  Tony and I both
     2             knew what we were talking about, i.e. the union
     3             material, but neither of us ever mentioned it.
     4
     5             After the break-in but before my last encounter
     6             with Tony I went and told Philip Pearson about
     7             what had happened.  Philip Pearson did
     8             absolutely nothing about it.  He was very
     9             ineffectual.  I was very disappointed and
    10             frustrated about this.  I think that Philip
    11             Pearson did not give the support that he should
    12             have given and was not really forthcoming with
    13             any real encouragement.
    14
    15             A few days after the final encounter with Tony
    16             I resigned from McDonald's for the following
    17             reasons:  1.  The college year was just about to
    18             finish and I was going back to my home in
    19             Manchester.  2.  Whilst I could have stayed on
    20             to work in London, I wanted to get back to
    21             Manchester for personal reasons.  3.  I just
    22             could not take McDonald's any more.  I could not
    23             take the hassle that the managers were giving
    24             me.  One Assistant Manager in particular, Nadam,
    25             was giving me real problems.  We really did not
    26             like each other at all.  4.  The locker
    27             incident.  I was being given all the worst
    28             jobs.  I think that the management really hated
    29             me.  I did not exactly go out of my way to
    30             please them.  I answered back continuously.
    31             I was impolite whilst on the till.  I refused to
    32             smile continuously at customers when told to do
    33             so.  I did these things just to spite all the
    34             managers and the five star yellow badge people.
    35             These were the people that I resented the most,
    36             even more so than management.  The five star
    37             yellow badges had an awful lot of power.
    38             I disliked them for their own stupidity.  They
    39             were treated like dirt by management and for
    40             lousy wages as well.  They got absolutely
    41             nothing out of it and yet they managed to treat
    42             the people below them as badly as they were
    43             treated themselves.  I think that these people
    44             were just on an ego trip and I had no respect
    45             for them whatsoever.
    46
    47             I made sure that I did not approach these people
    48             when I was trying to recruit for the union.
    49             These people would have reported straight to
    50             management.  The people I wanted to enrol were 
    51             the very people that the five star yellow badges 
    52             were kicking around. 
    53
    54             Another matter which did not help was that I was
    55             thoroughly fed up with working on a Saturday
    56             night.  I felt that I was working so many hours
    57             and getting so little pay.  I was convinced that
    58             I was being cheated and not being paid for all
    59             the hours that I worked.  My average weekly pay
    60             was approximately ú25 maximum.  The most I ever

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