Day 204 - 15 Jan 96 - Page 17


     
     1        Manager that I ever took extended breaks.  I was all for
     2        working my hours, because I needed to support my family.
     3        So .....
     4
     5   Q.   Could it have been a time when you were doing the till?
     6        You did the till and Simon Gibney did the back up work on
     7        the products, and the rest of the crew took the time off
     8        for an extended break?  Does that ring true?
     9        A.  I cannot recall, no.  On occasions we might have asked
    10        people if they wanted a second break because it was a quiet
    11        period, or if they wanted to go home early, and people were
    12        more than willing sometimes.  But it was very rare that it
    13        happened, when the matrix was got wrong.  That is all.
    14
    15   Q.   Was it a well known fact in McDonald's that Neil Skehel did
    16        not like Ray Coton at the time he became Supervisor?
    17        A.  I was under the impression it was the other way round,
    18        but no one actually talked to me about it.
    19
    20   Q.   So it was a well known fact that Ray Coton did not like
    21        Neil Skehel?
    22        A.  I do not think he liked him, no.
    23
    24   Q.   That was before he became Supervisor, was it?
    25        A.  Possibly, yes.  He never really talked about it to me,
    26        so I cannot say.
    27
    28   Q.   So, as far as you understood, there was no love lost
    29        between them anyway, one way or another?
    30        A.  I cannot comment on something that I really do not know
    31        anything about, to be honest.  I am sorry.
    32
    33   Q.   Do crew members trust the management, for example, in their
    34        pay, hours they have worked and the pay calculated; do they
    35        trust McDonald's management?
    36        A.  I imagine so, yes.  I hope they do, yes.
    37
    38   Q.   When you noticed your hours were docked round about the
    39        winter of 87/88, who did you tell about that apart from
    40        Ray Coton, or did you tell anybody about it?  Sorry,
    41        maybe -----
    42
    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  He has answered that question.
    44
    45   MR. MORRIS:  He told nobody.  OK, sorry.
    46
    47   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Ms. Steel asked it.
    48
    49   MR. MORRIS:  That would have been -----
    50 
    51   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You do not have to struggle to ask questions, 
    52        you know. 
    53
    54   MR. MORRIS:  I did not remember that one being asked.
    55
    56   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No.  If you have covered the ground with
    57        Mr. Harney, say so.
    58
    59   MR. MORRIS:  (To the witness):  You said in your statement that
    60        Mark Davis did not put undue pressure on you to meet your

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