Day 150 - 07 Jul 95 - Page 03

     
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     2   Q.   Very briefly, we may come back to this, can you just sketch
     3        out what your job at present involves?
     4        A.  Primarily, I am in charge of Operations in the Midlands
     5        region, and so I head that team looking after the Company
     6        restaurants, but I also have responsibility for the
     7        franchised restaurants through our franchised support
     8        teams, so it is primarily restaurant responsibilities.
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    10   Q.   Is that a day by day on the ground job or is that very much
    11        an office job?
    12        A.  No, I would say primarily it is field based.  I have
    13        been field based since I joined the Company.
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    15   Q.   When you say "field based", what do you mean by that?
    16        A.  I would say, well, no one week is typical, but I guess
    17        of a five-day week I would spend maybe two days now in the
    18        office and the remaining three visiting restaurants with
    19        the people that work for me.
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    Q.   So two days in the office and then three out and about?
    22        A.  That is about it, yes.
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    24   Q.   We may come back more on what you do now a little later,
    25        but can I ask you when you had your first contact with
    26        McDonald's?
    27        A.  That was really after I left university in 1983.  I was
    28        going to take up a postgraduate work.
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    30   Q.   What was that going to be in?
    31        A.  We were doing some air photography work for the local
    32        Staffordshire County Council over Cannock Chase.
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    34   Q.   So that was nothing to do with retail?
    35        A.  No, not at all.
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    37   Q.   Then you left university; you were thinking of doing
    38        postgraduate work, but obviously you did not end up doing
    39        that?
    40        A.  No.
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    42   Q.   Were you always intending to work at McDonald's to make it
    43        your career?
    44        A.  When I -- basically, when I intended to do this
    45        postgraduate course the grant fell through, so I intended
    46        then to go teacher training.  I was really too late to
    47        apply for that year's intake, so I decided to obviously
    48        work during that intervening year ready for the next intake
    49        which, I think, was 1994.  So I went down to the Job Centre
    50        and applied to join McDonald's where I started as an hourly 
    51        paid employee. 
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    53   Q.   When you say that, you were a crew member?
    54        A.  That is right, yes.  I joined as an hourly paid member
    55        of staff.
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    57   Q.   Do you remember the month in 1983 when you joined?
    58        A.  I think it was September; it would have been just at
    59        the end of the year.
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