Day 155 - 14 Jul 95 - Page 10
1 did not feel intimidated by me having the position of
2 Restaurant Manager. I had a very open door policy.
3
4 Q. I am going to ask you now about the age profile of your
5 crew, roughly speaking, during your time at Seven Sisters.
6 What proportion of them do you think from memory would have
7 been under 18?
8 A. No more than 10 per cent.
9
10 Q. That means that 90 per cent or more were over 18?
11 A. Yes.
12
13 Q. Therefore, you correct me if I am wrong about this, there
14 will have been a good number of them who were about the
15 same age as you were?
16 A. Yes, I had quite a few people that were actually older
17 than me.
18
19 Q. I was wondering how many people there would have been; you
20 were 20, I think, when you started. I think I have that
21 right. You were there for two and a bit years. What sort
22 of proportion of crew would have been over 21?
23 A. I would say getting on 20/30 per cent, something like
24 that.
25
26 Q. Did you find yourself at any disadvantage dealing with
27 people who were older than you?
28 A. None whatsoever.
29
30 Q. Was it an advantage, disadvantage, or is it a neutral
31 thing, that a high proportion of the crew were roughly the
32 same age as you were?
33 A. I think it was an advantage. They could relate to me
34 more.
35
36 Q. Did you personally go out on social occasions with the
37 crew?
38 A. Quite often, yes.
39
40 Q. What sorts of things?
41 A. Just things like bowling, football, even just going to
42 the pub for a drink, restaurants.
43
44 Q. Again, I only want a rough idea, from what sort of area or
45 areas of London did most of the people come that worked for
46 you?
47 A. I had a mixture of two things. Maybe half worked from
48 the local area, and the other half, just down the road from
49 Seven Sisters there was a polytechnic, so I had quite a few
50 students from that polytechnic that were working for me.
51
52 Q. Would any of those students be full-timers?
53 A. Sometimes, it depends on their courses. If they had,
54 like, two hour placements at the end of a day, then they
55 would work maybe early morning until 2, 3 o'clock.
56
57 Q. If we take full-timers to mean people who work 39 hours or
58 sometimes more, can you give us an idea what the
59 proportions were between full-timers and part-timers?
60 A. I would say there was probably about -- one side
