Day 184 - 06 Nov 95 - Page 27


     
     1        A.  Yes.
     2
     3   Q.   Just one question before I move on to your statement:
     4        Cam Ballantyne and Robert Pinkney took over the store in or
     5        about January 1992; is that correct?
     6        A.  Yes.
     7
     8   Q.   You said that they had a different, very different,
     9        business style to the previous management, and they made
    10        many changes and improvements, yes?
    11        A.  Yes.
    12
    13   Q.   Could you just say what the many changes and improvements
    14        were?
    15        A.  Some of them included, I mean, when John Tingley was
    16        there, there was a lot of stealing going on and there was a
    17        lot of -- I do not know how to say this, but I was one of
    18        the only girls working in the grill area at that time, so
    19        there was a lot of, you know, comments going around in the
    20        grill area, but then when Cam came in the stealing almost
    21        virtually stopped and the comments stopped, and it just
    22        became, like, more of a fun place to work.
    23
    24        He focused in on, you know, serving the customers and
    25        making the customers happy while we just went rampant.  We
    26        just did whatever we wanted when John Tingley was there.
    27        They would serve -- I do not know if I should be saying
    28        this -- but when John Tingley was there, the crew would
    29        serve any kind of food that they wanted, but when Cam came
    30        in he stopped all of that.  He made sure that all the food
    31        was, you know, safe and, you know, it was hot and fresh.
    32
    33   Q.   You said:  "Many of the staff were apprehensive of Cam and
    34        Robert at first.  Their management style was very different
    35        than what we have been used to".  They were more in
    36        control, were they, than before?
    37        A.  Well, they kept the store in more control.
    38
    39   Q.   That meant also that they kept staff under more control?
    40        A.  Yes.
    41
    42   Q.   This led to some problems and complaints by some of the
    43        staff; is that correct?
    44        A.  Not that I can remember.
    45
    46   Q.   So people did not complain even though they were
    47        apprehensive and the management style led to more control,
    48        they did not complain, as far as you know?
    49        A.  Not that I can remember.  I mean, they were happy to be
    50        able to do the things that we were doing.  I mean, it was a 
    51        better place to work because we did not have, you know, 
    52        like for me, it was a better place to work because I did 
    53        not have the people in the grill area, like the guys around
    54        my age, you know, making those comments or, you know, they
    55        would serve food that I just, you know, that was not fresh,
    56        and I would, like, you know, "you should not serve that"
    57        and they would like, "Oh, who cares?"   Cam came in and
    58        said:  "I care", you know, type of thing.  So we stopped
    59        doing all of that, and for me, you know, I did not want to
    60        work at a place with a bad reputation, with that worry, you

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