Day 169 - 04 Oct 95 - Page 06

     
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     2   Q.   Right.  Pause a moment.  What hours were the night shift?
     3        What do you mean by that?
     4        A.  He was scheduled to work from 4.00 until the close, so
     5        he would have come in at around half past 3.00.
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     7   Q.   Yes.
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     9   MS. STEEL:  What time did you come into the store and take over?
    10        A.  I was informed about mid-day that Mike Logan had
    11        resigned and so I came in, I looked at the schedule.
    12        I wanted to find out if there was another Manager on with
    13        him, and when I found out there was not and there was no
    14        available cover, I came in and did the shift myself.
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    16   Q.   Mr. Logan said he did go into work that day.  He said he
    17        came in to run the night shift and found he had been
    18        scheduled a completely inadequate number of staff?
    19        A.  Yes, that is what he says, but I received a message
    20        from, a telephone message, from someone called Joe Stapley,
         and she telephoned me at approximately -----
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    23   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  How do you spell her surname?
    24        A.  S-T-A-P-L-E-Y.  She telephoned me approximately
    25        mid-day, which to me indicates that she must have known
    26        before mid-day that Mr. Logan was resigning.
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    28   MS. STEEL:  When you came in you never saw Mr. Logan -- when did
    29        you come in?  You came in at 4.00, did you?
    30        A.  I came in in mid-afternoon.  I came in, sort of, I
    31        arrived, I should imagine, about 2 o'clock.
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    33   Q.   You never saw Mr. Logan, is that what you are saying on
    34        that day?
    35        A.  That is correct.
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    37   Q.   The schedule surgeries and the payroll surgeries, those
    38        were set up, were they, as a time when crew would be
    39        expected to make any comments they had about the payroll
    40        schedule?
         A.  That would be right, yes.  The idea would be, for
    42        instance, with the schedule surgery, if someone had a
    43        problem with the following week's schedule they could come
    44        along and discuss it then.
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    46   Q.   What time was that surgery held?
    47        A.  It would vary each week.  There was no set time for
    48        it.  You would try to schedule it at a time when the Admin
    49        Assistant was available for at least an hour.
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    51   Q.   Was it generally on a weekday? 
    52        A.  No, it was generally on a Friday night or a Saturday 
    53        morning or, perhaps, a Saturday afternoon, late Saturday
    54        afternoon, because that was when the most people were in.
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    56   Q.   What about the staff who were not on duty?
    57        A.  They, I mean, if they had a complaint, they could
    58        either make it to any one of the Managers or they could
    59        phone the restaurant or they could come in and speak, they
    60        could send a message.