Day 207 - 23 Jan 96 - Page 60
1 A. People will basically come up to me and, unless you are
2 working a specific, within a specific area, the kitchen or
3 something, you may have a list of, you know, what shifts
4 people are working. They would invariably come up and
5 say: "It is time for me to go", and you say "Well, go".
6
7 MR. MORRIS: Because they have reached their scheduled time?
8 A. That is correct.
9
10 Q. So, would the general pattern be, if you are scheduled
11 11.00 to 7.00, at 7 o'clock you approach one of the
12 Managers and say: "Hey, I have finished, you know, can
13 I go?"
14 A. Yes.
15
16 Q. Right.
17 A. That is my ------
18
19 Q. Would you sometimes say to people, you know: "Well, can
20 you just do this or just do that?"
21 A. I may ask someone if they would not mind doing that,
22 yes, or if there is a specific task, or if they wish to go,
23 they can go.
24
25 Q. Right. I am just trying to find what the general pattern
26 is. I mean, would it be the tendency that people would do
27 an extra 10 or 15 minutes after their scheduled time
28 because you said: "Oh, can you clean up?"
29 A. No, I would not say that was a tendency -- they have a
30 tendency to go at the time they were scheduled.
31
32 Q. I mean, the clock cards we have seen all have, you know,
33 very few of them end exactly on the o'clock, whatever the
34 o'clock is. People are generally scheduled, are they not,
35 between half hour or hourly?
36 A. Or quarter hourly, yes.
37
38 Q. Or quarter hourly. But, I mean, any of the schedules, any
39 of the clock cards that we look at have got all sorts of
40 times. So, people do not just down tools at 7 o'clock.
41 They have to ask for permission to leave. So, would the
42 general pattern be that in most cases people will work an
43 extra 10 or 15 minutes or something?
44 A. They may work an extra five minutes if, say, the Hunter
45 is not in sync with the clock in the kitchen or
46 the .......
47
48 Q. Anyway, let us just quickly go through these. 377, it is
49 tab 3 of the second volume. Is it Kevin Easton, the
50 Manager?
51 A. Yes.
52
53 Q. Kevin Easton. These are audit adjustment reports; is that
54 correct?
55 A. Yes, they are.
56
57 Q. Made in the early hours of the morning. Those ones are
58 signed just by the Manager who did it. What is his
59 position again, First Assistant?
60 A. First Assistant.
