c0lz
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Up to 18 Albion staff to lose jobs.
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Up to 18 Albion staff to lose jobs.
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deletebeepbeepbeep
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- May 12, 2009
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We're doomed...
Seagull over Canaryland
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Very sad for those concerned but £8m operating losses can't be sustained.
Would be interesting to see if the savings from these jobs would actually put much of a dent in the losses.
Haven't read the Argus article but curious that they are not being redeployed to the new training complex which presumably will create a few new jobs, unless the roles are incompatible?
Would be interesting to see if the savings from these jobs would actually put much of a dent in the losses.
Haven't read the Argus article but curious that they are not being redeployed to the new training complex which presumably will create a few new jobs, unless the roles are incompatible?
Hillian1
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About 18 normal BHA staff salaries I shouldn't wonder.
Brighton Breezy
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Not surprising given everything Barber has said in recent weeks.
albion534
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Why don't they sack the hoards of stewards delegating into bennets field on a match day, must pass at least 5 directing around about 100 metres
Brighton Breezy
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Have total sympathy with those about yo lose their jobs. Terrible thing to go through.
Very much sounds like the club employed too many people to start with. Sad that its those in the jobs who have no doing been working hard who suffer.
Very much sounds like the club employed too many people to start with. Sad that its those in the jobs who have no doing been working hard who suffer.
18 staff to go; anticipated saving =£1m pa = average total cost of £55k/employee = average salary of £40-45k per employee. (pension contributions and Er's NI plus any other benefits need to be deducted to arrive at the salary number)...
rouseytastic
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Very sad but I can't say it's a surprise. Having gone from literally a handful of full time employees in the old tower point days to a swarm of people at the Amex always seemed like hire now fire after we test the water.
Nowhere near. The job Barber got was advertised, and the ad was posted on here. Can't remember the exact details, but it's on here somewhere if someone can be bothered to search for it. I THINK it was c £200k.
- Aug 8, 2005
- 26,545
We have been saying for ages that the AMEX is overstaffed. Ken Brown ****ed up big time in the early stages. You used to drive to the AMEX on a non match day and be greeted by 20 stewards. No stadium in the country has that. Barber realised this early on and got rid of a lot of that meet and greet crap on a non match day, he is now obviously dealing with some of the slush that is less visible to us. Just hope he doesn't cull the ticket staff because they are credit to the club with the way they smooth the ticket purchasing process.
There must be a few whose primary function was to sell all the season tickets. Now that the expansion is complete, and a load more have been sold, that area probably has a few too many if the job now is just reselling a few cancellations each season.
Hillian1
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I was being flippant Hans.
Fair enough. I'm pretty sure there are some on here that DO think Barber is on millions, though.
Seagull over Canaryland
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I guess there were lots of roles associated with getting The Amex fully operational over its first couple of seasons and up to final capacity but now these have settled down it may be apparent we are over staffed. But I still feel sorry for those concerned.
I presume a similar start up process is underway with the new training complex. Ok a few existing staff will move across but given the scale of the complex which is on a whole new level to anything we have used until now you would assume it will require a few new roles, at least in the short term. Ok we will save on having to rent facilities at the Uni and other local Clubs but I guess the training complex will inevitably add to our operating costs. Its role is not to generate income so would only add to the current £8m losses. In the longer term a successful training complex should create a stream of home grown talent thereby potentially saving us in transfer fees and maybe generating income from player sales that might subsidise its operating costs but that must be a few years off before it makes a big impact on the bottom line.
I presume a similar start up process is underway with the new training complex. Ok a few existing staff will move across but given the scale of the complex which is on a whole new level to anything we have used until now you would assume it will require a few new roles, at least in the short term. Ok we will save on having to rent facilities at the Uni and other local Clubs but I guess the training complex will inevitably add to our operating costs. Its role is not to generate income so would only add to the current £8m losses. In the longer term a successful training complex should create a stream of home grown talent thereby potentially saving us in transfer fees and maybe generating income from player sales that might subsidise its operating costs but that must be a few years off before it makes a big impact on the bottom line.
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
- 27,892
Now thats where I went wrong ! I should have applied and made hay for a couple of years then accepted a healthy redundancy package to boot.