Day 128 - 24 May 95 - Page 03

     
     1        A.  Most of that initial time was spent working crew
     2        stations.
     3
     4   Q.   Then after four months what was the situation then -- three
     5        to four months, sorry?
     6        A.  After my training period I took my basic Operations
     7        course and became a Second Assistant manager, then
     8        I progressed from that up to Store Manager over about a 12
     9        months period.
    10
    11   Q.   During that time how often would you be working on the crew
    12        stations?
    13        A.  Certainly every day that I was in the restaurant.
    14
    15   Q.   What, like half the time, quarter of your time?
    16        A.  It is difficult to tell.  A lot of what I would be
    17        doing, particularly when I was in the role of Technical
    18        Assistant and Second Assistant and First Assistant Manager
    19        would be involved in coaching crew, working side by side
    20        with them, working in the kitchen and running that
         particular area.
    22
    23   Q.   Showing them what to do?
    24        A.  Taking them through the operations check list.
    25
    26   Q.   So you would be standing there with your OCLs in your hand
    27        marking them, or whatever?
    28        A.  Part of my responsibility would have been to complete
    29        OCLs on my shift.
    30
    31   Q.   Right.  Then that would stay the same until the two years
    32        was up as a Trainee Manager?
    33        A.  I always spent -- as I say it was three to four months,
    34        perhaps 14 weeks, as a Trainee Manager.  I spent two years
    35        in Operations working in the restaurants.
    36
    37   Q.   Right.
    38        A.  By the end of that time I was a Restaurant Manager.
    39
    40   Q.   Right.  How much of that two years would you have spent
         flipping burgers and things like that?
    42        A.  Well, as I explained, certainly as a Trainee Manager, a
    43        lot of my time was spent working the stations.  Less and
    44        less, as I progressed up the hierarchy, because my role
    45        became more management, leadership, than actually working
    46        on the stations myself, but certainly we believed that
    47        management should be able to carry out the task just as
    48        crew, so some of my time would still have been being spent
    49        doing that.
    50 
    51   Q.   The accidents that happened to you while you were -- well 
    52        actually I do not know whether you called them accidents; 
    53        you said you had a couple of cuts and burns.  Can you just
    54        describe how they happened?
    55        A.  I remember one very well.  I was working on a grill and
    56        I dropped a quarter pounder patty down the side of the
    57        grill into the grease trough.  I knew the grill was hot but
    58        I put my hand down after.  I cannot say I could blame
    59        anybody for that than myself.
    60