This is not unheard of for someone who has worked from the age of 16, but at the time it was considered quite an honour, which is an indication that I was well thought of by my superiors. A condition of my being promoted to salaried management was that I was transferred to the Milton Keynes store in late November 1987. I was so badly treated there that I left the Company without giving any notice on December 24th 1987. Scheduling staff hours. Working with sewage underfoot.
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These targets were set by managers above store level. The Colchoster store was set specific targets by the area supervisor,who was a man called Frank Stanton . It was plain to see that he was a highly ambitious man, who wanted to get on rapidly in the company. He lived for McDonalds. In order to improve the yield performance of the Colchester store, even though they were considered totally acceptable, he instructed the store manager, Mark Davis, to water down drinks syrups, ketchup, mustard, milkshake mix, use less lettuce in the burgers, cut the cheese slices into two pieces, one roughly half the size of the other , and to use the larger piece in the cheeseburgers, which should have had a whole slice, and the smaller piece in the filet of fish, which should have had half a slice, make the staff squeeze the frie cartons when filling them and so on.