Day 119 - 02 May 95 - Page 49
1 some encouragement.
2
3 If you turn to the next one, four months later, her
4 "towards store success" has gone up to 3.2, the next one
5 is 2.5 and the next one is 2. She is responding to some
6 kind of encouragement but, I mean, you know, I am just
7 looking at figures here. I do not know the actual
8 circumstances, I do not know the girl, I do not know
9 anything about her.
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11 Q. What I am saying is, that is the only one that specifically
12 says "attitude". If someone failed completely on attitude
13 on performance reviews -- this is a performance review, is
14 it?
15 A. Yes, it is.
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17 Q. Then what would happen if they failed to respond to
18 encouragement?
19 A. I would say in the first instance she would be -- you
20 would try to recover -----
21
22 Q. But if they failed to respond to encouragement?
23 A. It would be up to the Manager how he perceived her, but
24 I would have thought if she persistently failed to get any
25 score at all they would probably be terminated.
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27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If they had not gone of their ---
28 A. Own free will, indeed, yes.
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30 Q. -- own free will; if they had not decided to go anyway?
31 A. That is right; they are not fitting in.
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33 MR. MORRIS: Is there anything on these performance reviews
34 which you can see that indicates whether it is the person's
35 first, second or third review or anything like that?
36 I cannot tell myself.
37 A. Yes. If you look at Joanne Bishop, the first one is
38 headed "Probationary". That would tend to indicate it is a
39 21 day one.
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41 Q. What about the other one?
42 A. They come four months after, you see. That is the four
43 monthly pay reviews.
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45 Q. So the one after four months would be her first one after
46 her probationary period?
47 A. Yes, at the end of 21 days normally.
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49 Q. The one after that is three months later. The one after
50 that is ---
51 A. Four.
52
53 Q. -- six?
54 A. Four, that says 5.12.86. I thought it said 5.2, but it
55 is 86, so I take it it is 5.12.
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57 Q. On the last two she got "unsatisfactory"?
58 A. No. She got "satisfactory". If you look down at her
59 overall rating she is marked up as "satisfactory" 8 to
60 9.99. The next one is not marked up, but her combined
