TONY O'ROURKE

One of the most memorable managers in my book was Tony O'Rourke.

Those who can remember Tony will also no doubt remember his red BMW car as well. In the middle of shifts Tony would run to the back door just to see if his baby was okay or was still shining! If he wasn't out the back door he would be checking the video camera's!

At one time the managers used to come out to lobby and tell us that the local area manager was coming in. Was it Steve Gardener? Anyways Tony made a habit of coming out and pretending he was coming in so that we would fly about like blue arsed flies and tidy everything up. Once he came out and said that he was coming in.... I thought it would be funny to call his bluff and a half hour later I went into the Managers office and told Tony that Steve Gardener was upstairs waiting on him. You see the managers used to keek themselves whenever there would be a visit so I was hoping to strike a bit of fear into Mr O'Rourke.

As it happened the joke fell on me as Tony got Kev McCudden to tell me that he had phoned Gerry and that he was on his way in and had cut a family holiday or something short. So it ended up that I was crapping it that I was going to get pulled into the office by Gerry and be given a bollocking. As it turned out the bastards had set me up.

But Tony never gave it the old Steve Gardner speel again!!!

Tony was also famous for his chocolate Donuts a la carte!


Tony was the guy who showed me how to tie my tie into a Windser knot!!

What a guy - That Windor knot has saved my life on three seperate occasions and helped me pick up numerous Burds.... well maybe not but it certainly helps me sound like a pratt when I tell people I have a special knot.... Cheers Tony :o)

I recently bumped into Tony at the gym. You know I can't even remember what he is up to these days. But we had a good laugh about the old days in McDonalds!