Day 133 - 12 Jun 95 - Page 03
1 the way we are now set up.
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3 Q. Ms. Mead, what was your first contact with McDonald's?
4 A. I started off working with a crew member many years ago
5 now.
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7 Q. How many years ago now?
8 A. Well, it was 1976.
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10 Q. How old were you at that time?
11 A. I was 16.
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13 Q. What were you doing at that time when you were 16?
14 A. Before I joined McDonald's I was working part-time for
15 a supermarket.
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17 Q. Were you at school?
18 A. I was, yes.
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20 Q. I do not know whether it was O level or GCSEs in those
21 days?
22 A. It was O levels.
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24 Q. Were you doing O levels?
25 A. Yes, I think I had actually just completed them at that
26 point.
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28 Q. Did you go on to do A levels?
29 A. I did, yes.
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31 Q. Did you eventually go to university, I think, at Reading?
32 A. Yes, it was.
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34 Q. Where you read French and Russian?
35 A. That is right.
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37 Q. You started as a crew person at the age of 16 in
38 McDonald's, where?
39 A. In Croydon.
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41 Q. Is that near where you lived?
42 A. Yes, it was.
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44 Q. How many years, I assume you were part-time because you
45 were at school?
46 A. I was.
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48 Q. What sort of periods did you work when you were at
49 McDonald's in those days?
50 A. I usually worked on, well, I worked Saturday always and
51 then I sometimes worked, say, a Sunday evening or perhaps
52 an evening mid week.
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54 Q. Was that during term time?
55 A. Yes.
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57 Q. What about during holidays, did you work then at all?
58 A. Yes, I usually worked more hours then. I worked
59 full-time.
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