Day 197 - 07 Dec 95 - Page 15
1 A. It was round about this, just after this PR, in fact,
2 I think it was the January or February of 90, I was given
3 an all expenses paid holiday for me and my wife to
4 Portugal, including spending money for my performance as
5 Manager, for the recognition.
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7 Q. Who gave you that or who would have authorised that?
8 A. Tim Taylor authorised that holiday.
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10 Q. On 51 under "Overall", it says: "Until the last four or
11 five months, Colchester store has always been rated as a
12 solid B operations store. Now its reputation has slipped
13 quite considerably, visits have not been good". Is that
14 the results of inspections?
15 A. Yes, I mean, that relates to where we were talking
16 about before with regards to spending a lot of labour one
17 day and not another day.
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19 Q. "The full field was not good, turnover up, lack of
20 progress of assistants. One saving grace has been the
21 consistent PAC. You have developed a good knowledge of
22 the profit and loss side of the business. Well done".
23 What are they saying there?
24 A. I mean, basically, although I was having problems in
25 some areas of the store, because I was producing figures,
26 I was being told, well, not that was OK not to do well in
27 the other areas, but well done for producing the figures.
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29 Q. Achieving the profit?
30 A. The profit side of things.
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32 Q. It says: "Colchester has always been rated as a solid B
33 operation store". Was there any time when under Mark
34 Davis or under yourself that you were ever not rated as a
35 B operation store?
36 A. To my knowledge, we were always a B store. There
37 might within some full field grade we got possibly a "C"
38 in one area but, overall, I do not think we were ever
39 rated less than a B.
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41 Q. Overall, because that is an overall comment there, do you
42 feel that the running of the store overall changed much
43 between the day that you became a salaried Manager and the
44 day that you left?
45 A. There was a slight change in the fact that under Mark
46 Davies as a Manager, the store got Store of the Year
47 and was running at As; under me, it maintained a B. I was
48 unable to get it to an A standard. But ------
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50 Q. But previous to Store of the Year, was it generally
51 getting Bs under Mark Davies? I cannot remember now.
52 A. At that stage, I cannot remember exactly what we were
53 running at, but, I mean, it was As, Bs, that type of grade
54 we were achieving.
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56 Q. It says at page 51 in the middle of the page, the
57 paragraph starting: "Cleanliness varies. The store has
58 always been able to do an 'all nighter' and get the store
59 to a solid B". Do you have any comment on that? It says
60 "always been able to do an 'all nighter'"?
