Day 185 - 07 Nov 95 - Page 12
1 being applied for?
2 A. What she told me is that -- on Tuesday at a meeting
3 I had asked for my card back, and she said, "Do not worry
4 about it. I will talk to you later. I will call you
5 tonight." I said, "OK." She never called me, so on the
6 29th, on our school break, I went up to her and
7 I said, "Listen, I want my card back", and she said, "You
8 cannot have it; it has already been sent in." So -----
9
10 Q. So you were aware that certification had been applied for?
11 A. All I knew was that it might have been applied for,
12 because she said it had been sent in. But she already lied
13 to me once, so what would stop her from lying to me again?
14 Even if it was, I figured it was worth a shot to try and do
15 something to stop it, because I wanted my card back. They
16 did not get sent in till Monday, I believe.
17
18 Q. What did not?
19 A. The cards. I do not believe -- they did not get sent
20 in, I believe, until Friday or Monday, because our petition
21 was only a day late, I believe.
22
23 Q. You knew that certification had been applied for, and it
24 was at that point that you started to worry about losing
25 your job or the store being closed, or the consequences?
26 A. When did I -- I am sorry, when did I learn? I did not
27 know for sure if she had sent the cards in. That is why
28 I started the -- like, that is why I talked to Michelle on
29 Friday and Chris Broom called his dad. I was not worried
30 about my job. They were not going to fire me for nothing.
31 They never fire anybody for nothing.
32
33 Q. The certification was signed on 1st October. You were
34 aware -- you say that Sarah told you on the 29th that she
35 had sent in the cards?
36 A. Right. But I did not know if it was the truth or not.
37
38 Q. Right.
39 A. And that is -----
40
41 Q. So did you assume that she was lying and that you did not
42 have anything to worry about because certification had not
43 been applied for?
44 A. No. I did not know. Like, I did not know what was
45 going on. I did not know if it was true or not. So
46 I figured I would try and start a petition or something.
47 I was not sure what I could do. So I talked to Michelle
48 and Chris, and Chris talked to his dad, and he said, "If it
49 has not been applied for, start a petition, and we will try
50 and get it in before the cards get sent in", and I said,
51 "Well, they have already been sent in. Sarah told me they
52 were sent in on Wednesday", and he said, "Well, it is worth
53 a shot anyway."
54
55 So we did one, even though -- I mean, the cards could have
56 been there on Wednesday; we still did a petition just in
57 case. We were not absolutely sure when the cards went in.
58 When I went in on Monday with Bonnie, I did not know if the
59 cards had been sent in or not. I was -- I did not know if,
60 you know, we are in time or not.
