| Meanwhile at Man Utd 17:36 - Feb 24 with 1139 views | bosh67 |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cx28ve6ynydo
Is it me or is Jim Ratcliffe completely mad? 200 more staff to be made redundant...
"Free lunches will no longer be provided for staff at Old Trafford, saving more than £1m a year" F*ck £1m a year or like two weeks of one of your hideously underperforming team member's wages. Why don't you sack them? Massive saving.
"The club's latest financial results showed they spent £14.5m on sacking Erik ten Hag, his coaching staff and former sporting director Dan Ashworth during Ratcliffe's first full season as co-owner." Okay so now I see why you can't feed your remaining staff anymore. Another example of honest working people being thrown under the bus to protect the wealth earning elite.
Is this guy some kind of hideous F*ckwit (I know, allegedly) or what? Answers on a postcard please. |  |
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| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 17:40 - Feb 24 with 1082 views | BrianMcCarthy |
"As of 30 June 2023, Manchester United had 1,068 UK employees."
1,000!
That's 1 person in every 600 from their traditional homeland in Surrey. |  |
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| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 17:49 - Feb 24 with 1023 views | Northernr |
| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 17:40 - Feb 24 by BrianMcCarthy |
"As of 30 June 2023, Manchester United had 1,068 UK employees."
1,000!
That's 1 person in every 600 from their traditional homeland in Surrey. |
I don't know if it's still the case but United used to have a London-based news/content team of journalists pumping out content for their various channels etc, as well as a Manchester based one.
The list of demands QPR received, just on the media side, to accommodate MUTV and all those cnts for the pre-season friendly here ran to the length of a decent paperback.
Man City, of course, infamously employ more "journalists" on staff than the Manchester Evening News. |  | | |
| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 17:56 - Feb 24 with 951 views | essextaxiboy |
| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 17:49 - Feb 24 by Northernr |
I don't know if it's still the case but United used to have a London-based news/content team of journalists pumping out content for their various channels etc, as well as a Manchester based one.
The list of demands QPR received, just on the media side, to accommodate MUTV and all those cnts for the pre-season friendly here ran to the length of a decent paperback.
Man City, of course, infamously employ more "journalists" on staff than the Manchester Evening News. |
My two boys and my eldest boys partner were at Man Utd commercial before moving to their present jobs. Their office was by Green Park station
The commercial; operation was hugely successful , but they tell me all but one staff member have moved on .
The club truly is huge , some of the stats they used to tell me were mind blowing. |  | | |
| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 17:56 - Feb 24 with 950 views | daveB |
Absolutley hillarious stuff, long may it continue
He's earned that knighthood with the laughing stock he's making them |  | | |
| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 18:02 - Feb 24 with 910 views | HAYESBOY |
If the players had anything about them they would chip in to fund to cover the costs of free lunches for the lower paid staff. |  |
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| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 18:07 - Feb 24 with 886 views | essextaxiboy |
| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 18:02 - Feb 24 by HAYESBOY |
If the players had anything about them they would chip in to fund to cover the costs of free lunches for the lower paid staff. |
......assuming that they would be allowed to.  | | | |
| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 18:20 - Feb 24 with 830 views | Watford_Ranger |
The bloke is more intelligent and successful than I’ll ever be but I’ve talked about the cost-benefit analysis of tiny savings where I work or just generally pissing employees off for a marginal, if any, initial gain when it comes to things like being in the office more just to sit on the same Teams call with the same person in a different office somewhere in the world.
All these little things that make working conditions marginally worse eventually mean people leave and there’s a cost to that in expertise and just the cost of recruiting a replacement. Finding that replacement is harder as it’s a known toxic environment with little security. Those made redundant will receive however much as their package to go. Employee stress goes up and the sickness/loss of productivity that comes with that.
But a football club is unique. These little things will filter to the playing staff and management and creates disharmony which if it costs them a single position in the table outweighs Jim’s lunch saving by £1.5m. Some of these people will know the players personally and it affects those players as seeing a colleague you like at your work being mistreated does. If one single player is off it as a result for a while and their worth goes down by a few million if not more then again you’ve outweighed that saving. Also when it comes to recruitment at a football club, they probably get away with low wages as people want to be there just as I’d work for a bit less if there was a job at QPR. That’ll be lost eventually. The bloke sounds absolutely mental. Hope it ends in even worse failure than it seems to be heading for. |  | | |
| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 18:24 - Feb 24 with 802 views | Juzzie |
I remember years ago reading in WSC where a player (in the autumn of his career) had transferred from Newcastle to Blackburn and he couldn't believe the state of the dressing rooms. Carpets peeling and laundry room was full of decrepit washing machines. I guess they don't think of that when they & their agent are screwing every penny they can from the club.
This is what I was alluding to on another thread about clubs needing to have income>player salary ratios at around 60-70%. This is to allow the rest of the club to function properly. If higher all that happens is the players still get their grotesque salaries but cuts are made elsewhere to the detriment of dozens & dozens of people, but we still hail the players as gods. |  | | |
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| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 18:39 - Feb 24 with 698 views | GaryHaddock |
| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 18:02 - Feb 24 by HAYESBOY |
If the players had anything about them they would chip in to fund to cover the costs of free lunches for the lower paid staff. |
That’s letting the mental billionaire off the hook. |  | | |
| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 18:42 - Feb 24 with 686 views | kensalriser |
Laughable. Reminds me of a company I worked with some years ago who were trying to save money on lightbulbs while they were trading insolvently.
Tax avoiding tw at. |  |
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| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 19:07 - Feb 24 with 612 views | terryb |
I'm surprised that any club provides "free" staff lunches. I thought that facility disappeared from all companies after it was deemed as taxable for "benefit in kind".
Of couse, I'm sure that there must be multiple ways around this regulation, but it brought about the downfall of luncheon vouchers! | | | |
| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 19:12 - Feb 24 with 594 views | Northernr |
| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 18:20 - Feb 24 by Watford_Ranger |
The bloke is more intelligent and successful than I’ll ever be but I’ve talked about the cost-benefit analysis of tiny savings where I work or just generally pissing employees off for a marginal, if any, initial gain when it comes to things like being in the office more just to sit on the same Teams call with the same person in a different office somewhere in the world.
All these little things that make working conditions marginally worse eventually mean people leave and there’s a cost to that in expertise and just the cost of recruiting a replacement. Finding that replacement is harder as it’s a known toxic environment with little security. Those made redundant will receive however much as their package to go. Employee stress goes up and the sickness/loss of productivity that comes with that.
But a football club is unique. These little things will filter to the playing staff and management and creates disharmony which if it costs them a single position in the table outweighs Jim’s lunch saving by £1.5m. Some of these people will know the players personally and it affects those players as seeing a colleague you like at your work being mistreated does. If one single player is off it as a result for a while and their worth goes down by a few million if not more then again you’ve outweighed that saving. Also when it comes to recruitment at a football club, they probably get away with low wages as people want to be there just as I’d work for a bit less if there was a job at QPR. That’ll be lost eventually. The bloke sounds absolutely mental. Hope it ends in even worse failure than it seems to be heading for. |
Lee Hoos once said in an interview with us "at the end of the day, no football club ever went bust by ordering too much stationary".
Close the staff canteen if you like, you'll still be paying 33-year-old Casemiro £16m a year. | | | |
| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 19:17 - Feb 24 with 566 views | bosh67 |
| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 18:07 - Feb 24 by essextaxiboy |
......assuming that they would be allowed to. |
Probably why they let Rashford go as he may have set an example by feeding the staff as well as under privileged children. You can't have that at Utd. Let them eat gravel. | |
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| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 19:59 - Feb 24 with 431 views | Spen |
| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 19:12 - Feb 24 by Northernr |
Lee Hoos once said in an interview with us "at the end of the day, no football club ever went bust by ordering too much stationary".
Close the staff canteen if you like, you'll still be paying 33-year-old Casemiro £16m a year. |
He’s got a current net worth of nearly £16,000,000,000 FFS! [Post edited 24 Feb 19:59]
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| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 20:53 - Feb 24 with 245 views | Harbour |
Such a shame the bottom 3 are crap..Man u form is awful would be funny see them in the bottom 3…minimum tkt price £66 and no reduction for kids or OAPs to watch that rubbish in that crap stadium. | | | |
| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 21:29 - Feb 24 with 129 views | Watford_Ranger |
| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 19:12 - Feb 24 by Northernr |
Lee Hoos once said in an interview with us "at the end of the day, no football club ever went bust by ordering too much stationary".
Close the staff canteen if you like, you'll still be paying 33-year-old Casemiro £16m a year. |
If only his dad had used a rubber.
Edit- is Hoos the one we like? I’m thinking of Mike Rigg. [Post edited 24 Feb 21:30]
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| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 21:33 - Feb 24 with 107 views | ted_hendrix |
Because of that 96th minute horror story I wish Man Utd all the bad luck and misfortune going.
A small bit of me died that day. |  |
| My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic. |
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| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 21:36 - Feb 24 with 93 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Meanwhile at Man Utd on 21:33 - Feb 24 by ted_hendrix |
Because of that 96th minute horror story I wish Man Utd all the bad luck and misfortune going.
A small bit of me died that day. |
Same as that, Ted. | |
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