Day 155 - 14 Jul 95 - Page 04
1 A. Yes, I went through all the ranks, five star crew
2 member, training squad, Floor Manager, and then went
3 salaried.
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5 Q. Which is Second Assistant?
6 A. Second Assistant, yes.
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8 Q. You became, what, the First Assistant at Enfield?
9 A. Yes, that was about 3/4 months later I became First
10 Assistant.
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12 Q. Was your progress then from ordinary crew member to First
13 Assistant, which is a salaried post, relatively speedy?
14 A. Very speedy.
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16 Q. This question has a point, Mr. Giardina, how old are you?
17 A. At present I am 30.
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19 Q. When is your birthday?
20 A. 27th June.
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22 Q. So you are just 30?
23 A. Just turned, yes.
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25 Q. When did you get your first post as an actual Store
26 Manager?
27 A. February of 86.
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29 Q. When you will have been still, I think, only 20 years old?
30 A. That is correct.
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32 Q. Do you know whether or not there is any McDonald's Manager
33 in this country who has ever held that post at so young an
34 age?
35 A. Not that I am aware of.
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37 Q. How long -----
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You would have been 16 and a half when you
40 started as a crew member at Enfield?
41 A. Something like that, yes.
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43 MR. RAMPTON: Had you left school at that time?
44 A. No, I was at college at the time that I joined Enfield,
45 and sort of worked there 5/6 months part-time.
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47 Q. Part-time?
48 A. Yes, before I decided to pursue it full-time.
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50 Q. When you were working at Enfield 5/6 months part-time crew
51 member, what made you decide that this was something you
52 wanted to do full-time?
53 A. Well, once I sort of left college and decided when to
54 start job hunting, I started to work there full-time. That
55 is when I really started to understand the systems, the
56 management side of it, and I was fortunate enough to have a
57 very, very good Store Manager that taught me a lot of
58 things in a very short space of time. If you like, I just
59 got hooked.
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