Day 150 - 07 Jul 95 - Page 54
1 Q. Then what were your responsibilities while you were in the
2 office in Birmingham?
3 A. As I mentioned earlier, some of those requirements as a
4 Supervisor were to carry out Human Resources audits,
5 security audits. Then I would then bring those into the
6 office. We may well have a monthly supervisors' meeting
7 with my boss, the Senior Supervisor, and we would generally
8 bring everything in at one go.
9
10 Because I was so remote from the office, it meant that
11 I needed to be sort of prepared going up there maybe only
12 once or twice in a month, to be sort of efficient and use
13 my time productively. So, I generally bring those sorts of
14 audits up, completion of monthly statistical reports for
15 month end, financial records and the like.
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17 Q. So did you go to the office in Birmingham every day or
18 not?
19 A. No, oh, no. I probably only went a couple of times
20 during the month. Generally, that would be probably in the
21 first week of the month because then the financial reports
22 in the previous month would be out, and I could pick those
23 up. But again they would post those out to me anyway. So
24 I generally sort of worked in the Colchester area.
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26 Q. So for the rest of the week when you were not in the
27 Colchester and the Clacton stores, where would you be
28 working?
29 A. Nowhere in terms of a couple of days in Colchester, two
30 or three, and maybe a couple in Clacton on a general
31 working week, that is five and two off. Interdispersed
32 between those days there may well be training days that
33 I may have held with Assistant Managers or trainee
34 managers; some meetings that may have been called by Head
35 Office either in London or in Birmingham. But, in general,
36 my working week was spent in Colchester and Clacton because
37 I did only have the two restaurants.
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39 Q. I think previously you said two or three days in Colchester
40 and one in Clacton. So, presumably, for roughly one day a
41 week you were either in Birmingham or at the Head Office in
42 London?
43 A. Yes, I would say, yes, fair, but the day being or
44 through the week was never a consistent week.
45 Interdispersed between those sort of general two or three
46 days or one in Clacton, there may well have been training
47 days in a specific restaurant. But I would definitely put
48 two or three days in Colchester specifically for the
49 Colchester restaurant, rather than just using the
50 restaurant as a base for training managers or for equipment
51 classes. Because again we are away from the Birmingham
52 office, very much -- a lot of my time was spent doing
53 training classes and actually in the restaurants rather
54 than taking people to the office, which I think some of my
55 colleagues nearer to the office in Birmingham would have
56 done so and used the facilities there.
57
58 Q. That was training of managers?
59 A. Training of managers, primarily, yes.
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