More staff sacked today


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But that’s not true is it, people have already said it would be bad and would damage their views if he’d made promises to people about keeping jobs and then not kept those promises.[/QUOTE


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Sick of reading of reading that word on this thread .

It’s his business, his money , his decision to make.
 
It's shit but the club will have still been running as a premier league/ Championship club and the staff levels, it was always going to happen unfortunately.
 
Spot on. I like Donald and Methven but a large part of the reason for that is because I like how open and honest they are and, to as much a degree as possible, I trust them as a result.

If they've come in, seen we are bloated, realised we needed to make cuts and have gone about it the right way then absolutely no issue. If they've gone promising people their jobs will be safe and have then made them redundant then it shows them to be untrustworthy. At that point you can't trust what they say about finances, loans, future plans, any of it.

I'm not doubting the lad who posted mind but I simply can't see why they'd do it. What would they gain from telling people they'd stay and then making them redundant? Maybe they thought people would stay and then the skeletons in the closet have needed more cuts, maybe there's some other reason, or maybe it's a case of a misunderstanding and they never promised people would stay. If possible I hope the club comment because this is the kind of rumour that could be quite damaging

No-one in their right mind ever tells anyone their job is safe, especially when there's a very obvious review of the whole business going on. All you do then is make yourself a hostage for fortune. To be honest, it would worry me more that they'd made promises in the first place than that they had to break them later.
 
I don’t get outraged, but even if I did I was never outraged at necessary redundancies, it happens to struggling companies all of the time. I was annoyed that bad management had caused it, as I would be for anyone in any business. Redundancies aren’t nice but they happen.
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We are a League One club.

If we are to be any club at all in the future we have to behave like one and not like a top half Premier League club with money to waste.

No one likes to see people lose their jobs. But it happens when a company hits big trouble. It's happened to me before and to loads of other people. It is a necessary fact of life in any country with a functioning economy.
 
Yeah I saw that after I’d posted, I suppose it depends what they were told, businesses take on extra staff at peak times, if they weren’t made any promises then unfortunately that’s what happens, if they were made promises that’s not very good.
Well,I guess the commerical and everything departments have gone through a few changes,so maybe the new people have different views to the ones who were in temporary charge a few weeks ago.

Who knows where the budget will go,might be that they have something else in mind,or a different structure too. Rather than the assumption that it's overall budget cuts....
 
He has previous form for firing folk before he got here.

I'm expecting a fair few manager changes in his tenure.
 
I don’t get outraged, but even if I did I was never outraged at necessary redundancies, it happens to struggling companies all of the time. I was annoyed that bad management had caused it, as I would be for anyone in any business. Redundancies aren’t nice but they happen.

This, it pissed me off when they were making people redundant while flying the squad to New York for a team bonding session in central park......We are currently streamlining the entire business, all areas are being looked at with the board room and top earners being the first out of the door not the last. This is part of an overall strategy, ffs Bain didnt even cancel the £1000 a month for plastic plant pots before he started sacking staff.
 
Shane our new ''open" regime forgot to mention this in their latest infomercial with ALS.
 
Shane our new ''open" regime forgot to mention this in their latest infomercial with ALS.

Were they asked? Was it not right that the people being made redundant were told first? Were they informed of the start of the redundancy process today or is this the end? They havent just been sacked, there are laws in place and they will have had to go through the correct redundancy procedure including statutory redundancy payments.

Still not great but lets not pretend that people walked into work today, were told to go home and will not have any pay due after today. Thankfully the one thing we do have plenty of in Sunderland is a need for the type of skills that would be used in places like a ticket office, we are one of the biggest customer service hubs in the country.
 
If they haven't been there long as far as redundancy goes and were allegedly told their jobs would be safe, I assume they were appointed shortly before the takeover. It wouldn't be the 'consultants' that Bain brought from Rangers who he suddenly gave proper contracts to as takeover talks commenced with various parties? Trying to look after his mates.
Interesting this.
 
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