Day 267 - 21 Jun 96 - Page 08
1 A. Yes.
2
3 Q. "Cash depositing, running shifts, fire log), despite recent
4 half a million pound refurbished high volume restaurant".
5 Is that half a million?
6 A. Yes.
7
8 Q. "(4) Reduced clothing allowance. (5) pay reviews
9 continually not followed up on time and inappropriately
10 carried out. (6) Inadequate time off between shifts.
11 (7) Inadequate break length, if any at all. (8) No reward
12 scheme for Floor Managers and limited recognition.
13 (9) Unlimited job description. (10) People practices
14 unsympathetic. (11) Breakdown of management team (no form
15 of internal communication due to elimination of management
16 meetings). (12) Negative attitude towards employees.
17 Store Manager blinded with regard to his foreseeable
18 conclusion.
19
20 I am very disappointed by the mistreatment and the
21 malpractice I have occurred and I am saddened at the
22 drastic decisions I have had to take in spite of my five
23 years and seven months continual service to McDonald's
24 Restaurants Limited. Yours faithfully, Daniel Olive."
25
26 Do you stand by that letter now?
27 A. Yes.
28
29 Q. Since you left, did you carry on with your studies?
30 A. I failed that year at university and I have repeated
31 that year this year without working, and I have now passed
32 it successfully.
33
34 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You have?
35 A. Yes.
36
37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What are you studying?
38 A. Physics.
39
40 MR. MORRIS: Why did you go into this kind of detail in your
41 resignation letter?
42 A. Well, really, because obviously the Store Manager
43 would read it. A few Floor Managers had left quite
44 recently and then, of course, I had left and I thought that
45 the Store Manager would read it and then his Area
46 Supervisor, so hopefully they could do something about
47 these areas I had picked up on and possibly other Floor
48 Managers would not leave because of the same sort of
49 pressures. So, in the hope that something would be done,
50 really.
51
52 Q. We have heard that in a letter from the Plaintiff's
53 solicitors on November 8th, 1995, they said that it was
54 standard practice not to send a copy of such a letter to
55 the Human Resources Department or to anyone in the Regional
56 Office. What was your understanding about complaints
57 procedures and where this -----
58
59 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am sorry. The position, in my mind, with
60 Mr. Olive, whatever has happened with anyone else before,
