Day 152 - 11 Jul 95 - Page 22

     
     1        store?
     2        A.  I do not recall any rap sessions I took in Colchester,
     3        no.
     4
     5   Q.   Not necessarily the content, do you recall having taken rap
     6        sessions?
     7        A.  Not to my knowledge, no, I do not remember any one.
     8
     9   Q.   Sorry?
    10        A.  I do not remember holding a rap session, no.
    11
    12   Q.   Would it surprise you if you had taken two or thee rap
    13        sessions at Colchester?
    14        A.  It would not surprise me to have maybe held a rap
    15        session at Colchester.
    16
    17   Q.   Right.  More than one?
    18        A.  Gosh!  I do not know.  Perhaps I would have recalled
    19        it.
    20
    Q.   That would have been for what reason?
    22        A.  That I would hold a rap session in Colchester?
    23
    24   Q.   Yes.
    25        A.  If I had to hold a rap session in Colchester, the only
    26        reason is if the Supervisor down to do the rap session did
    27        not turn up or was ill or something, probably then if I was
    28        working and in the area I could then do it.
    29
    30   Q.   A Trainee Manager is paid more than a Floor Manager, would
    31        that be correct?
    32        A.  Today?  Sorry, today, yes.
    33
    34   Q.   In the 80s?
    35        A.  I would presume so; I cannot remember the salaries but
    36        I would think so, yes, absolutely.
    37
    38   Q.   It is two positions above the Floor Manager, is it not, the
    39        Trainee Manager?
    40        A.  Sorry, what is the other one, above Floor Manager?
    41
    42   Q.   Junior Business Manager?
    43        A.  Oh, no, there was not a Junior Business Manager
    44        position when I was Supervisor.
    45
    46   Q.   So people went from being Floor Manager to Trainee Manager?
    47        A.  Yes, they did or they could, yes.
    48
    49   Q.   They became salaried at the same time?
    50        A.  As Trainee Manager, yes. 
    51 
    52   Q.   As far as you can remember, the pay would have been more? 
    53        A.  Again, if I recollect, that if Floor Managers were the
    54        guys who may well have worked up to 50 hours, they were
    55        generally the people on the higher rates of pay.  So,
    56        depending upon their rate of pay and whatever the Trainee
    57        Manager's salary was at the time, it may well have brought
    58        them very close to what a Trainee Manager was paid as a
    59        starting rate.
    60