Day 150 - 07 Jul 95 - Page 15

     
     1        A.  No, never.
     2
     3   Q.   How much can you remember of your time as an Area
     4        Supervisor at Colchester?  Obviously, it is an obvious
     5        point that it is now eight to nine years ago; how much are
     6        you able to remember?
     7        A.  I can probably remember sort of some generalities to
     8        begin with in terms of how I viewed the job at the time
     9        coming from a restaurant that was very busy and having to
    10        be responsible for restaurants that were relatively
    11        quieter, the challenge, perhaps the nervousness of doing
    12        the job.  I do recall a sense of achievement and the fact
    13        that we were working together.  We were, I think -- if you
    14        ask me specifics I would have probably great difficulty,
    15        but my general overall impression of those 16 months,
    16        whatever it was, in Colchester was one of enjoyment and
    17        achievement, purpose.
    18
    19   Q.   Just going on from that, specifically, what was your
    20        impression of the way that the store was run by the
         management in the store at Colchester?
    22        A.  I think it was run very well and again, like
    23        I mentioned earlier, I would like to think that some way
    24        helped the store achieve Store of the Year in 87.  It
    25        certainly helped me become Supervisor in the year in 1987.
    26
    27   Q.   Who was the Store Manager at that time at Colchester?
    28        A.  In Colchester it was Mark Davies.
    29
    30   Q.   What was your impression of him, not as a person
    31        personally, but in terms of his abilities or otherwise as a
    32        Store Manager at that time?
    33        A.  I think he was very committed.  What impressed me about
    34        him was that he knew his people really well, and I cannot
    35        remember his personal history but I think he had been there
    36        right from the day the restaurant opened and, sort of, set
    37        up those relationships.  I certainly got that impression
    38        when I joined Worcester, for example.  You get to know
    39        people the very day and that camaraderie, opening the
    40        restaurant for the very first time in a new area because it
         is the first McDonald's restaurant, and having been there
    42        for such a relatively long length of time it struck me to
    43        know his people very well; he had a very good team of
    44        people which made my job obviously easier.
    45
    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You would be about 25 or 26 then, would you?
    47        A.  As a Supervisor, I was probably about 23 -- 25, yes,
    48        sorry.
    49
    50   Q.   How old was Mark Davies, what sort of age? 
    51        A.  I was probably about the same age.  Maybe 26, maybe a 
    52        year older. 
    53
    54   MR. ATKINSON:  Can we turn now, Mr. Stanton, to the question of
    55        pay; again we have heard something generally about pay in
    56        this case.  Back in the mid-1980s there was a starting
    57        rate, was there?
    58        A.  Yes.
    59
    60   Q.   And at Colchester that would be a provincial rate?