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Staff Redundancies at SAFC

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Rickybilly said:
Sorry, but I don't really buy into this £140 million debt. Couldn't possibly be owed to certain US banks and investment companies could it!?!
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£60m to Drumaville (owned by Short) and £80m to an American bank. £80m scheduled for repayment by 2019 by them having first call on money from the FA.
 

fattybalatty said:
I can't be arsed, look beyond just this thread and you are constantly called a Mag due to your posts.
Bites is all.
Over and out.
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Ah right so you are looking what other people say and just jumping on board, sorted.
 
I've kept out of this, it's awful when anyone loses their job, but 3000 have gone at the Council over the last 4/5 years with hardly a peep, I saw people leave week after week another bunch have learnt their fate on the same day the clubs redundancies were announced,

If these jobs aren't football related and if they aren't relevant to the core business then surely like any other business they need to be looked at.
 
janey said:
I've kept out of this, it's awful when anyone loses their job, but 3000 have gone at the Council over the last 4/5 years with hardly a peep, I saw people leave week after week another bunch have learnt their fate on the same day the clubs redundancies were announced,

If these jobs aren't football related and if they aren't relevant to the core business then surely like any other business they need to be looked at.
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Agreed with all of this, however Janey its the message it sends out as well, now i am quite aware that the club has to make these cuts to staff, because of the problems on the business side of the club, i think for me what makes it worse is, in the eyes of most people is our so called professionals have been on a nice holiday to new york, but at the same time people who may need this work have been told there on a 3 month notice period, so it looks to all the world, like this
(we sent our players away and paid for it, but at the same time we are sacking people because we can afford to keep them on..) its the message it sends out.
 
CissesUnderpants19 said:
Agreed with all of this, however Janey its the message it sends out as well, now i am quite aware that the club has to make these cuts to staff, because of the problems on the business side of the club, i think for me what makes it worse is, in the eyes of most people is our so called professionals have been on a nice holiday to new york, but at the same time people who may need this work have been told there on a 3 month notice period, so it looks to all the world, like this
(we sent our players away and paid for it, but at the same time we are sacking people because we can afford to keep them on..) its the message it sends out.
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I can't disagree the timing of the announcement was/is shit.
 
janey said:
I can't disagree the timing of the announcement was/is shit.
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exactly we needed it like a whole in the head, so that makes things even more toxic, than they already are what should of been done was simple, inform the staff behind closed doors, that due to problems etc, they needs to be cuts, but that shouldn't of been the same week as our " so called " professionals go away on holiday to new york,
having worked at the football club myself when i was younger i can put myself in the shoes of how those staff will be feeling, there problems are real, the players wages could keep them in food and a roof over there head forever, it seems to me and it will seem to the outside world as if it the announcement maybe be rubbing in those peoples faces.
 
CissesUnderpants19 said:
exactly we needed it like a whole in the head, so that makes things even more toxic, than they already are what should of been done was simple, inform the staff behind closed doors, that due to problems etc, they needs to be cuts, but that shouldn't of been the same week as our " so called " professionals go away on holiday to new york,
having worked at the football club myself when i was younger i can put myself in the shoes of how those staff will be feeling, there problems are real, the players wages could keep them in food and a roof over there head forever, it seems to me and it will seem to the outside world as if it the announcement maybe be rubbing in those peoples faces.
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I try and detach from the footballers wages they are, whether we like it or not the basis of the core business. And in that respect football is like no other business.
Could sort of compare to chief executives of other businesses it's not usually them that suffer either.
But like I said the timing of the announcement was poor
 
janey said:
I try and detach from the footballers wages they are, whether we like it or not the basis of the core business. And in that respect football is like no other business.
Could sort of compare to chief executives of other businesses it's not usually them that suffer either.
But like I said the timing of the announcement was poor
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The truth of it all, this is the result of years of mismanagement, and the staff and paying the price for it. if relegated, frankly its just history repeating itself, as seen in the summer of 2003.
 
prehab26 said:
Not the first round of people to go. More cuts unfortunately. Obviously preparing for a sale by reducing the overhead of none essential staff. Shame like, some have been there years and given the timing and the player situation of NYC and half arsed performances, makes the situation worse.

Sorry if anyone on here has been told that they are out of work. Chin up.
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Preparing for relegation not sale. And the fact they're telling people now suggests they've got to gibpve a lengthy statutory notice period, which you only have to do if the numbers are big.
 
janiep said:
Preparing for relegation not sale. And the fact they're telling people now suggests they've got to gibpve a lengthy statutory notice period, which you only have to do if the numbers are big.
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which would suggest the cuts, are going to be right back to the bone.
 
CissesUnderpants19 said:
which would suggest the cuts, are going to be right back to the bone.
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Terrible really when you think that most who will be going are really small change compared to the multi millions that's been wasted on piss poor players/agents/managers and useless board members over the last few years...
 
RichD said:
Terrible really when you think that most who will be going are really small change compared to the multi millions that's been wasted on piss poor players/agents/managers and useless board members over the last few years...
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again mismanagement, its what we keep coming back too, we will find out just how much more when the accounts come out in 8 weeks
 
chunkylover53 said:
Why out of interest?
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Less media interest = smaller media team needed.
Fewer ticket sales = fewer ticket office staff.
Less corporate hospitality sales = fewer corp hospitality staff
Fewer retail sales = fewer retail staff.
 
I don't know how many people are at risk of redundancy at SAFC, but it does occur to me that the ordinary
people, making an ordinary living, at their ordinary local football club, should be shown more loyalty than the Prima Donna players who purport to represent the club, and the badge they "love."

Making one player,on £30,000 per week, redundant, would almost certainly save the much-needed jobs of many relatively low paid administrative staff; possibly up to as many as forty people! Now I know that these things are never that simple, but for as long as I can remember ( and that's a long time) there are many players who have been redundant, when it comes to the success of SAFC!

Given such a scenario ever being possible, who would you put forward for redundancy at SAFC?
 
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