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                                                                  DAY 216
 
                                          KEVIN HARRISON, Cross-examined:
 
 
 
     1        A.  To a certain extent.
     2
     3   Q.   Did you have a car when you worked at McDonald's?
     4        A.  Yes.
     5
     6   Q.   You did?
     7        A.  Has that any relevance to what I have written?
     8
     9   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do not worry.  Just answer the questions,
    10        Mr. Harrison.
    11
    12   MR. RAMPTON:  I am usually pretty easy to second guess, so do
    13        not worry about it.  I do not lay what Mr. Morris calls
    14        "brilliant ambushes", Mr. Harrison.  Do not worry about
    15        it.
    16
    17        The reason I am asking you about your car is because of the
    18        second page of your statement, third paragraph up from the
    19        bottom, which is about the middle of the page, which
    20        begins: "My personal experience of dictatorial management
    21        concerns my move to the Ipswich store after qualifying.
    22        I was told I was going to move, and my relocation expenses
    23        were not reimbursed.  I was given no assistance in finding
    24        accommodation."
    25
    26        Where were you living when you were moved to Ipswich?
    27        A.  In Colchester.
    28
    29   Q.   That is about 20 miles away, is it not?
    30        A.  By the time I moved to Ipswich, I no longer had the
    31        car.
    32
    33   Q.   What makes you think the Company was under an obligation to
    34        pay your relocation expenses?
    35        A.  The way that it was put to me was such that I was given
    36        no option at all in the matter.  When I originally went for
    37        an interview, I asked if it would be likely that I would be
    38        staying in Colchester, and I was given to believe that it
    39        would.  Now, as I recall it, I was told bluntly that I was
    40        going to be moved to Ipswich, and there was no period of
    41        negotiation or anything like that; I was not given time to
    42        find accommodation.  Now, as I understand it, with certain
    43        previous Managers, McDonald's had allowed them certain
    44        short periods in hotels whilst they looked around.  I was
    45        not given any of that option.  It was done in a way that
    46        was very sudden.
    47
    48   Q.   Is that what you mean when, in your second statement, you
    49        say that you were transferred to the Ipswich store against
    50        your will? 
    51        A.  Yes; I would have preferred to stay in Colchester. 
    52 
    53   Q.   Have you looked at those pages which we sent to the
    54        Defendants yesterday from your personnel file?
    55        A.  I have seen them.
    56
    57   Q.   Do you remember that your management trainee application
    58        form says -- I do not know if your Lordship has these;
    59        there are only three pages, or four.  Have you got that
    60        there?
 
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