Day 195 - 04 Dec 95 - Page 40


     
     1        with NACRO on a community project and a six-month temporary
     2        job as a financial adviser after that before I took a job
     3        at McDonald's.
     4
     5   Q.   There is a reason for my question.  I am not prying into
     6        your personal life, but had you got married in the
     7        meantime?
     8        A.  Yes, that is right.
     9
    10   Q.   Were you married before you started working for McDonald's?
    11        A.  Yes.
    12
    13   Q.   When did you get married, how long before?
    14        A.  1982.
    15
    16   Q.   Had you any children when you started working for
    17        McDonald's?
    18        A.  No.
    19
    20   Q.   Did your wife work?
    21        A.  No, not at the time.
    22
    23   Q.   Am I right then that when you started working for
    24        McDonald's you might have been in need of money?
    25        A.  That is right, that is correct.
    26
    27   Q.   Is that the reason why you were willing to work long hours?
    28        A.  I would have liked to earn more money, yes, but not
    29        necessarily the hours that McDonald's dictated to me.
    30        I would have liked to do long hours, yes.
    31
    32   Q.   You were willing to work the close as often as you did
    33        because the rate that you were paid at McDonald's was
    34        higher than for any of the other shifts?
    35        A.  I would have done long shifts to earn the money because
    36        the wage was so low that I would have had to work long
    37        hours to earn a decent or relatively decent money, yes.
    38
    39   Q.   The late shift, the night shift, the close shift, call it
    40        what you like, was more highly paid than the earlier ones,
    41        was it not?
    42        A.  Yes, but I would have preferred not to do them because
    43        my wife at the time was alone at home, and the area that we
    44        were living in was not particularly safe.  So I would have
    45        preferred to be at home.
    46
    47   Q.   I understand, but it was your choice to do them, was it
    48        not?
    49        A.  If I was given a choice, I would have probably done
    50        them every now and then -- not as regularly as I did. 
    51 
    52   Q.   Who deprived you of the choice to do different hours, 
    53        day-time hours?
    54        A.  Any Manager which was on the night shift when these
    55        closes were happening, basically, if they said to you:  "Do
    56        the all night close because we are expecting a visit", you
    57        would have had to do it.
    58
    59   Q.   You worked the close far more often than was required by
    60        the visits of a Supervisor?

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